SIRF Carnival Olympic themed sketches

I swim like an artistic brick but have, strangely, been given the theme of 'in the water' for this years Olympic themed costume fest. I've attempted to take the sport out of sport as much as possible. Here is my selection of unsportsmanlike sketches, I'm hoping that adding goggles and swimming hats to each costume will save me.... I'm also going to be making a big structure all about synchronised swimming...

these people are swimming so much like fish that they have turned into actual fish - except one who's turned into a butterfly and is obviously doing Butterfly stroke- god, I love sport.

 sailing boats drifting along in the Stockton sunshine....

this is a canoe - its really a rather slim and stylised whale but the two 'canoeists' are paddling it anyway.

A synchronised swimmer wears a backpack of creepy synchronised doll swimmers, who dance playfully in a Busby Berkley style around an art deco (well hopefully) styled glitzy pool. (Note the big white toothy smile - which is compulsory)

Divers - a swallow dive (see what I did there to avoid actual swimming...) and a frog man (ditto)

The Badger and the Bear - illustrations

The Badger + the Bear
How the Fox got his boot


Badger + Bear's Ferret-Go-Round

Carnival time again! illustrations for SIRF carnival 2011

I've been working on my designs for Stockton Carnival. This years theme is 'Dare to Dream' so each artist has a section based on an aspect of dreaming. My section is called 'Dreamscape' and we'll be looking at the more surreal and bizarre aspects of our dreams. I've thought about the way we take the everyday and make it strange or ridiculous. I've come up with some funny, fantastical mixed up creatures , aliens made of household paraphanalia, an army of robots patterned with flowers and flock wallpaper as well as some peculiar clown fish and a giraffe made of sweets. There will also be some drummers performing as living surreal artworks

A Little Red - ink

Holmfirth Tiger mosaic images

The Holmfirth mosaic telling the story of Fenella the tiger was unveiled last week. I made it to the opening. It was a lovely do with circus cakes and tiger shaped helium balloons although I failed miserably to get any decent photos of the finished piece. So here are some sectional shots of it before I delivered it.