In recent times I’ve been posting my two-year-old daughter’s artistic endeavours on my blog on a Thursday. But this week I’ve switched to Wednesday. This is partly because today is the last day of September and while I still have six more pieces from ‘The September Sessions’ (which, for the uninitiated, is a series of…
Tag: doodle
Let’s Chalk It Up
Hello and welcome to Artist’s Corner. Regular readers will know that, of late, this has been the bit of my blog on which I have been posting the various artistic endeavours of my two-year-old daughter. And while she continues to enjoy putting washable felt-tip pen to paper, I’m not currently at home as much as…
Pink
Hello and welcome to another Artist’s Corner, the bit of my blog that I’m currently loaning out to my two-year-old daughter so that she has a forum in which to share her artistic endeavors. Ever the innovator, this week she has moved from white A4 paper to expressing herself on pink A4 paper. As always,…
Playing With Fire?
Welcome to another Artist’s Corner, the bit of my blog where I have handed over my incredibly influential and important digital platform to showcase the artistic talents of my two-year-old daughter. After last week’s mostly blue efforts, she has gone with some other colours this week. Just to highlight her range. I’m not sure what…
Frog
Welcome to Artist’s Corner, the bit of my blog where I post quite a rubbish picture that I have drawn and pretend that it is art. Today is something of a bittersweet day because I am, sadly, going to announce my retirement from Artist’s Corner. The time has come to pass the baton on to…
The Birds
Welcome back to another ‘Artist’s Corner’, the bit of my blog where I publish some crudely drawn cartoons and pretend that they are art. Recently I’ve been collaborating with my now 2-year-old daughter (it was her birthday on Monday). The results have been akin to what you might get if a man with no discernible…
Mouse
Welcome back to Artist’s Corner, the bit of my blog in which I peddle the same material week after week in the hope that no-one really notices. The conceit is quite simple. I draw a picture, my very-nearly-two-year-old daughter adds a touch of colour and then I post it on here and pretend it’s art.…
Pig – Encore
Welcome back to Artist’s Corner, the bit of my blog in which I pretend that fairly rubbish drawings are actually art. Lately I’ve been posting the same sort of inept doodles as ever, but with the added twist that my almost-two-year-old daughter had been adding her own unique take using some washable felt-tip pens. Last…
Pig
Welcome back to Artist’s Corner, the bit of my blog that, of late, has being playing host to some innovative collaborative art projects put together by me and my almost-two-year-old daughter. If you’ve not seen our previous efforts then I would urge you to reconsider your life choices, but I will also condescend to explain,…
Snake
Welcome back to Artist’s Corner, the bit of my blog in which I try to pass off rudimentary doodles as art. For the last few weeks I’ve been posting the same kind of sub-standard drawings as was my way when I first started doing this back in 2017. But these days I have a collaborative…
Dog
It’s that time of the week again, when I present one of my not-very-good doodles, which my almost-two-year-old daughter has subsequently embellished with her washable felt tips, and then I pretend it’s art. But the collaboration doesn’t end there, because by far the best bit of these posts for the last two weeks has been…
Cat
After the critical acclaim my daughter and I enjoyed last week with our debut collaboration, ‘Helicopter‘, we’re back this week with another of our artistic offerings. This week, Little Proclaims was keen to show another side of her, quite formidable, talents and has offered a more aggressive, almost brutal, palette to complement the elementary template…
Helicopter
It’s been a little over two years since I troubled the blogosphere with one of my not-very-good drawings. But, though my artistic talents have not improved in that time, I have acquired a new fan of my doodles. Little Proclaims is quite keen on drawing too, although much of her work appears to be from…
I Am So Clever That Sometimes I Don’t Understand A Single Word Of What I Am Saying
Welcome back to Artist’s Corner, the bit of my blog where I wow the world with my artistic talents. Of which I have few. Prior to my April love letter to the cartoons of my youth, I was using this bit of my blog to pay homage to some of the great literary figures of…
On Amplifie Également Le Malheur Et Le Bonheur, Nous Ne Sommes Jamais Ni Si Malheureux, Ni Si Heureux Qu’on Le Dit
“He’s reading Balzac, knocking back Prozac, it’s a helping hand that makes you feel wonderfully bland” The first I’d ever heard of Balzac was in the above song lyrics from the Britpop classic ‘Country House’ by Blur. I loved that song when it came out, but then I loved all things Britpop back in the…
There Are Books Of Which The Backs And Covers Are By Far The Best Parts
Today I’m taking the unusual step of honouring (through the medium of doodle) a literary figure whose works I am actually familiar with. Because even I have seen The Muppets’ Christmas Carol… I jest of course, I’ve read actual books by Charles Dickens. And watched their on-screen adaptations. My favourite one to read was A Tale…
Pochi Vedono Come Siamo, Ma Tutti Vedono Quello Che Fingiamo Di Essere
It’s Friday, so hang up your scruples and enjoy a few vices. But don’t do anything too Machiavellian. Unless you want to of course. I have gone with a Machievellian theme for this week’s ‘Artist’s Corner’ Because this week I present my fairly rubbish drawing of none other than Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli, a man…
Nowhere So Busy A Man As He Than He, And Yet He Seemed Busier Than He Was
Ah, tis Friday, the day that cometh at the end of the week and doth mark the weekend. And, after something of a European tour of literary greats, I return to these shores for one of our own. And if Shakespeare is very much the scourge of the GCSE English student, then Chaucer must surely…
Mit Dem Wissen Wächst Der Zweifel
This week’s literary great, captured in my inimitable artistic style, is one Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, who was a German writer of not inconsiderable repute. As with so many of the literary figures I’ve featured, I’ve never read anything he’s written, but I hear he was pretty good. Maybe I’ll learn German. There’s a whole load…
Не продается вдохновенье, Но можно рукопись продать.
Another Friday, another, frankly dreadful, portrait of a literary great. And today we travel to Russia to meet Alexander Pushkin, who apparently was quite good at writing. Not so good at duelling though by all accounts and he met his premature end at the hands of his French brother-in-law, who apparently had a bit of…
Lasciate Ogni Speranza, Voi Ch’Entrate
Continuing my theme of drawing third-rate portraits of well know literary figures, here is my attempt at capturing the reasonably talented Dante Alighieri, who is perhaps best known for his Divine Comedy. I haven’t read it, but I do enjoy a good comedy so I’m sure I’d really like it. He is cited as an influence…
La Senda De La Virtud Es Muy Estrecha Y El Camino Del Vicio, Ancho Y Espacioso
Another Friday, another doodle and, as per the last two weeks here is yet another depiction of a great literary figure. And it’s none other than the great Spanish writer and one of the world’s first novelists, Miguel de Cervantes. He’s probably best known for writing Don Quixote, which to be honest I’ve never read. I…
J’aime Mieux Un Vice Commode Qu’une Fatigante Vertu
It’s Friday and therefore time for my regular doodle, which this week continues the theme I started last week of producing portraits of some of history’s greatest literary and cultural figures. And what better person to follow on from Shakespeare, in these times of Brexit, than the man some might consider to be his Francophone equivalent,…
Better A Witty Fool Than A Foolish Wit
Today begins a new theme on Artist’s Corner. For the next few weeks I’ll be producing portraits of some of history’s greatest literary and cultural figures. Because what better tribute to these great minds than a slightly rubbish doodle? Is this a portrait of Shakespeare I see before me? Er, yes it is.
Can Can
Alacrity in aluminium, a pot of positivity, if you need a tin who is tenacious, a receptacle that’s resolute, a jar that will get the job done, then rest assured, this can can.
Misinterpreting Literature
The Book Thief is a 2005 novel that was adapted into a 2013 film of the same name. I haven’t read the book or seen the film but I imagine I’d probably enjoy both. Certainly what I do know of them suggests that they are worthy works that depict the horrors of the Nazi regime and…
Angry Apricot
It’s been a while since my last Artist’s Corner. So you’d imagine that I’d have produced something awesome in honour of its return. But all I could think of was this: I don’t even know why it’s angry.
Free As A Bird
Another Monday and another ‘Artists Corner’. Except that I’m supposed to do these on a Friday according to my 2017 blogging schedule. Monday is ‘long post day’. But, after another week of stress in the world of work, I continue to be a little out of synch with the blogosphere. In the greater scheme of…
Outside The Comfort Zone
It finally happened, after nearly three months of following a fairly consistent blogging schedule (longer posts on Monday, approximations of poetry on Wednesdays and a slightly rubbish doodle on Fridays) I’ve managed to fall behind. I’m not worried, I regularly disappeared for weeks on end in 2016 and, nearly three full months in, 2017 is…
Super Moodles
Just as the working week was getting a bit too much to handle, Friday has swooped in to save us. Friday is my favourite day for many reasons. Well one reason mainly. Which is obviously the weekend, and all the ‘not-having-to-go-to-work’ that that entails. But I also like Friday because that is the day I’ve chosen for my regular…
Heralding Another Moodle
Another Friday, another ‘Artist’s Corner’. Once again the inspiration for this week’s masterpiece comes from the marvellous Moodle Army Challenge from Haylee’s Aloada Bobbins. This week the challenge was to ‘Blow your own trumpet’. I don’t have a musical bone in my body. I own a five-stringed electric guitar. I’ve modified it from the usual six-stringed instrument…
James Proclaims! 