SKETCHBOOK: “On Your Own Head (Final)”

A painting inspired by accounts of the horrific Russian drug Desomorphine or ‘Krokodil’, also called “The Drug That Eats Junkies”. Side effects can include an inescapable stink of iodine, dry scaliness of the skin and lumps of the flesh falling off. It’s becoming popular, however, due to the fact that it’s cheaper and easier to make than heroin.

Done with acrylic inks on moleskine A4 paper.

March 31st
11:02 PM

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SKETCHBOOK COLLAGE - “What Was It?”

Yet another work inspired by the reading on my current course - this time, Fitz-James O’Brien’s wonderfully inventive work, What Was It?, which has been one of my favourite horror stories since secondary school. Originally, I merely intended it to be the statue of the strange skull-faced man being unpacked from a clay mould, but as I added to it the piece…grew! Not sure where the bird-people came from. They need names…and so does the skull-face. I’ll think of something.

March 25th
9:31 AM

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SKETCHBOOK: “I Love You, Big Fat Bison!”

Done with brown felt tip and black ink-pens on moleskine sketchbook paper. Based on a photo I saw somewhere on tumblr.