Merry Xmas!

On Vacation!

Yes, an actual vacation! My first enjoyable trip since... well, it's about years. But here we are. Going south soon (albeit not as far as the picture says).

I'm usually very methodical when I do digitals, making use of every shortcut that isn't too digital and cheap in its looks. Now I wasn't. I've made this (mostly) as I would do an oil, smearing electric paint about.

I hope to be back on Xmas Day, having had a fine rest and with plenty of new nice oddities in my bag. Ho-ho-ho.

His Master's Voice

This is what I've distilled from a tired pencil sketch from this summer, when I travelled a fearful lot with my half-portable piano. Sometimes I felt like some kind of pianola, churning out music without much soul left in it...

I've been gentle, only adding a few shadows and highlights and colour values to the scanned sheet, which came in various sad hues of grey.

-- I think it is playing old and scratchy Jazz, but you decide.

Towering Chess Problem of Separation

Being very tired but happy after my Vernissage (Larry's Corner, Stockholm, Sweden. Open two weeks from now) I made this little study in sepia. Enjoy!