Reluctant Snow Cat

The Battle of Nancy

I was casting about for something for a warm up drawing this morning and thought I would look at past January 5th events. Wikepedia kindly informed me that the Dreyfus Affair unravelled; Erin - the largest dwarf planet in the solar system - was discovered; God help us the Daily Mail became the first transoceanic newspaper, and the construction of the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco Bay began.

Besides all this and much more, Charles the Bold was killed in the Battle of Nancy on this day in 1477, and Burgundy became part of France. Having eschewed drawing bridges, dwarfs, army officers, and battles, I then quite irrelevantly drew a picture of Charles the Bold as a young lad in tights, with his dad, the very dapper Philip the Good, also in tights, and a very fetching hat.

(It's from a painting by Rogier van der Weiden, 1447-8. )

A Fishy Encounter

Happy New Year

2010 cats. Well 7 cats for 2010. Gently does it.

If you go down to the woods today..

V&A drawings

Another sketchbook sketch. Drew these figures in the V & A some time ago, and came across them hiding in an orphaned file on my computer. Thought they might like to come out to play.

Jumping at Shadows

I am trying to use material from my sketchbooks more in my work, as I have lots of scribbly drawings like this one that never quite make it off the page. It's nice to set them loose.