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NATO Poster thing.
Just saw this on the gram, mystery inktober, the artist emails participants fragments of an image which you draw, and send back, entire image revealed at end.
The local art club did this. Took a photograph and chopped it up and distribute to members. They all would draw/copy there square at the given size.
It great fun. We all ought to do one here 🙂 Anyone interested?
RT
It's Inktober time 🙂 Can't see me doing the fraction of a drawing thing, bit odd that.
But I did a quickie for 1. M(o)ustache
(3rd spelling for variety 🤓)
An attempt to represent Missie Elliott’s magnificent weave
Gonna have to change from portraits.. 🤔 This is Goldie's gob... full of crowns
Crown 
I'll have to do these in batches this year due to work and family commitments.
1. Moustache
2. Weave
3. Crown
4. Murky
5. Deer
That Murky one is a lot murkier in reality, camera seems to try n fix it 🙁
Next 2 aminals
catchin up
Enjoyed doing the bull one for pierced, so tried another
The bulls and all the peoples poses are excellent.
Thanks! 🙂
I need to draw more.
Inspired by Wile E Coyote, I went heavy with an anvil, but the picture won't upload.
This one was an artistic challenge.
Somewhat predictably
9. Heavy
10. Sweep
I've got a bit of catching up to do this week.....
Pleased with that last one, not so much this one but hey ho. Supposed to be Gee getting ragged on that ragged ridgeline
The day after Redbull Rampage 2025.
I have been persuaded to post some of my paintings on this thread by desperatebicycle
I have recently developed a new painting style. I was doing an exhibition with 4 other artists and they said it was important to have a consistency to your paintings in the exhibition as people seem to get confused by too much diversity. The trouble is, I get bored very easily of painting the same pictures, or at least very similar pictures, and like to switch between abstracts, landscapes, buildings etc. I settled on a geometric tessellated style that allows me to paint any subject but all recognisably the same style.
The first one I did was Stone Henge. I figured that most people would recognise it, almost regardless of how it turned out. I painted it from memory rather than a photo as I prefer not to be forced to just copy and colour. I tried to imaging how the light would hit the different faces of the stones and give different colours, the same for the field in front and the sky behind where the different shades could be sectioned into discrete areas.
I wasn't sure about the style at this point so posted a picture on FB asking for feedback. It sold the same day. This does not normally happen with £600 paintings. I took this as a positive sign regarding the style.
At the other end of the scale is 93Tx4 that appears to be an almost random pattern of colours but isn't. I shared this picture and asked what people saw. The response was (mostly) positive and people saw dinosaurs, ducks, people, all sorts of things. A few even saw the things I had actually painted.
The feedback included comments like 'an amazing painting but where the hell could you actually hang that?' or 'great, but not something I would hang in my house', or 'I wouldn't have it as a painting but do you do it as a jigsaw?'.
I guess that was a touch too far for most people.
Final posting for now, I promise.
This rendition of Corfe Castle seems to be the most popular, judging by peoples reactions. It has the bolder colours of 930Tx4 but is a recognisable landscape like Stone Henge. This seems to be the safe space for a lot of people. I have had 2 landscape commissions off the back of this painting (The Roaches, Peak District and The Clumps, Oxfordshire).
Cool. Remind me of some of the portraits I did a few years ago with the bold divisions betweens colours. Difference is I have to copy, because my brain to hand signal is interrupted somehow. Eye to hand fine... always been a source of frustration for me.
An example, Michelle Pfeiffer
Hoping to get back on Inktober track!
Slowly catching up after a manic couple of weeks.
11. Sting
12. Shredded
13. Drink
14. Trunk
115. Ragged
116. Blunder
This one is the head badge I cut out of stainless steel for the bike frames I make.
17. Ornate
