Before S&AA

Been under the weather with a stinking head cold of late which just won't shift so I have no new art to share this week other than drawings dug out of the archives from the days before "Stamping & Altered Art". Back then I was more comfortable working in monotones as you can tell!

Puffin 1983 (poster paint)

Stork 1983 (poster paint)

Brian the Boa 1985 (pencil)

Brian was my pet Boa Constrictor who shared a room with me in the nurses home in England back in the days when I was a nurse. On a wet Sunday afternoon with little else to do I decided to draw him whilst he was settled on his favourite branch......he was just a baby then about 2 foot long. Unfortunately by the time he had grown to about 6 foot, a rumour had spread throughout the nurses' home that someone had a snake in their room & a few of the Thai nurses were becoming a little paranoid about encountering a snake on the loose, so Brian had to be found a new home much to my dismay :(

This has always been one of my favourite drawings apart from the log he was resting on....that was pretty naff, wish I had drawn that better at the time!

Alstromeria 1982 (pencil)