My first 4 tiles for the Human Pixel Project.

Artist Peter Smuts has had over a thousand artists participate now in the project each doing mono coloured tiles to be made into much larger works of art. I’m only annoyed that I won’t be able to see them in person as they are being shown in Cambridge, USA.

I have noticed recently that almost everyplace in America has a British equivalent. For examples Hollywood is actually in Birmingham, England. There is also a Warwick on Rhode Island and even a Stratford in Connecticut. It is actually a fact (that I just made up) that these places in America are actually an exact replica of their British equivalents. During the early 19th Century when the Americans decided to build all these towns and cities it was decided that it was cheaper to buy up the British plans than design their own.

What the American builders hadn’t realised though was that an America inch is approximately twice as large as a British inch. Which is why when you go on holiday from Britain to America things seem much larger there than over here. As a result of the larger cities they also had to build larger cars, larger bikes and also larger meals for their larger restaurants.

A quick 20 minute lunchtime bald man illustration from yesterday, kind of comic like in style this one. Scanned in then messed with in Photoshop. After setting my goal of more female sketches (or at least some, or one even) I have totally failed another week. Next week will definitely be female sketch week.

Been a bit busy for oil portraits this week, doing a small commission and also working on my pixels for Peter Smuts Human Pixel Project, a really fun idea where artists make him 10 2 inch works of art which gets displayed as a massive image in a gallery. Should have something to show soon.

A new abstract photography section added to my photo gallery.

Yesterday I witnessed yet another abstract event near the local psychiatric hospital. The patients do seem to have some fun. I was driving along yesterday and a man got shot, no not literally, just looked like he did. One moment he was walking the next he’d thrown himself onto a grass verge. I was passing at the time so I went to the place to turn to see if he was alright. While I was turning a Police car screeched round the corner and shot off in his direction. I saw the police car arrive and it was most amusing.

The bloke was led in the verge spread eagled pretending to be dead, when he saw it was a policeman it was like they’d given him and electric shock, he shot bolt upright jumped up and started to run off.

This is the second event I’ve seen in the past year. The other was equally bizarre, it was December and I was walking back from the leisure centre when I spotted 3 police man and a man on the side of the canal. The man was dressed in only his underpants and was threatening at the top of his voice that if the police came any closer he would jump. The police were backing off, not that diving into the canal was likely to kill him as it is about 3 foot deep, I just didn’t think they fancied going in to get him out.