Thought I best post something soon before all my adoring fans take wing to loftier climes and leave me pondering my life as a tortured artist all on my own. Sigh…. 😀

But back in the real world, my eviction from my home last November has unquestioningly curtailed my output as far as drawings and paintings go, but I’ve added here a few sketches (hastily scribbled in one coffee shop or another) I did for Drawlloween 2024. They’re rough little things (and I’d be too embarrassed to show them all) but I kinda like these few, seeing potential in some to become paintings in their own right.

The oil painting (Sabrina) I teased in my first Journal post back in July 2023 (which I started in January 2021) is nearly done, much thanks to my weekly philosophy class and our discussion of freedom a few weeks ago that made me realise how nice it would be to not have my creative headspace cluttered with unfinished projects. I need to get Sabrina done this month as well ‘cos I have to let it dry for six months before I can varnish it. Then I’ll get it framed with the hope it’ll all be done in time to enter into the WSA yearly exhibition around October (and maybe, who knows, the Williamson Open as well).

Further to the above painting, I’ve been chipping away at some illustrations for a short story I wrote some years ago called The Spellbound Heart, as well as drafting a Christmas story I’ve been working on for way too long which I’ve now had some ideas for, so that’s up and running again. And lastly, I’m working on a new website all centered around my unfailing love for Autumn, that season of mists and magic that has inspired me since I was a boy – the smell of fireworks, the carving of swedes (before pumpkins were ever a thing here in the UK) into toothless grinning masks, and not to mention the gathering of the dying embers of the season shoved into old worn out clothes to make an effigy of Guy Fawkes in the hope of raising some much needed cash to fuel my addiction to comics and sweets (like I needed more of the latter!). More on that site in due course.

Anyways, don’t hold your breath for any more posts anytime soon, but I may even surprise myself. Oh! And I’m going to make a concerted effort to continue, after my enforced abandonment, of a portrait I started last October of arguably my fave singer Elizabeth Fraser of Cocteau Twins fame which, when I post, I absolutely promise, will be an unashamedly good excuse to plug my favourite songs by said band. Betcha can’t wait!

I’m outta here,

Jimbob 🙂