The crow flew round the historic town of Warwick, he woke up on his perch on the tree of knowledge located down a small country bridleway. The tree had grown old and warped, it was peaceful though and the crow liked the solitude. The crow launched himself to fly south and was soon in the hovering over the historic town centre, watching the people go about their daily routine. Randolph Turpin stood statuesque and proud in the square, alert as if defending himself from his winged opponent. The crow landed briefly over and old row of victorian houses just north of the river, pitter pattering as his feet clawed over the roof. From here it was only a short hop from his daytime territory by Warwick Castle.

A new set of ATC’s, pen and watercolour on 300gsm watercolour paper.

Finally got round to knocking out a few insect sketches as ATC’s. These are based on the sketches done last week for illustration friday and for these I bought some masking fluid to mask off the characters when I painted in the background. It was quite fun to use but completely killed one of of my paintbrushes. These are pen and watercolour, the highlights were done in gouache.

Completely off topic, can anyone tell me where exactly do birds go at nightime ? I have loads of sparrows and starlings that visit my garden every day yet around 7pm they vanish, also at this time of the year there are no leaves on any of the trees or bushes, so if they were in there you’d be able to see their outlines. hmmm… a mystery.

A few more trading cards, this time 4 robots, robo:1011, robo:1101, robo:1010 and finally robo 0101, all available for trade. They are pen and watercolour on thick 300gsm watercolour paper with letraset titles.