Last week after visiting John Earles site I suggested we swap some weather to solve my wet garden and his parched lawn. This led me to find an interesting story about how days after rain making experiments in 1952, the village of Lynmouth was decimated by flooding. That year Devon received 250 times the normal level of rainfall for the year.

You can listen to the documentary here (Real Media format).

Makes you think, if this was happening over 50 years ago what sort of things are happening today and would it explain some of the rather extreme weather conditions that have been occurring over the past couple of years. In the West Midlands last year we even had a tornado which appeared out of no where in Sparkhill.

The picture is an illustration of Patrick Mcgoohan looking rather confused, he thinks everything is a conspiracy.

Had this in the graphics locker for a while, project I never finished properly as I couldn’t work out what sort of environment that I wanted to put him in. Also needs a bit more texture work. He was originally a creature concept for a computer game that I worked on for a couple of months. Mental block…….

In the mean time a frightening fact, there are a quintillion insects populating the planet. Which means that roughly speaking there are 1700 million billion insects for each human.

Had a quiet week on the blog front, nothing finished finished and too many thing started. I think i’ve got around 10 paintings on the go at once now and also too much actual paid work this last week. This is a quick illustration I did last week, another prisoner character, its the actor Leo McKern who was Rumpole of the Bailey. What his outfit is all about I have absolutely no idea.

Incidentally thanks for comments by John Earle and ME Ellis, I’d like to write like you. If we teamed up we could make a good illustrated story !