Dorkomatic

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Amateur Time-Traveller

A sew-on badge saying "Cosmic AF" - clearly meaning Anna...
Fire in the trees over the road...
A small pencil and watercolour sketch of the dog & scooter.
A parked mobility scooter with small dog, waiting outside a shop.
A Klingon 8-bladed fruit bat'leth. (It's for apples she says. )
The classic "Sombrero principle" strip from Calvin & Hobbes. The punchline is a vital piece of practical modern advice: "What fun is it being 'cool' if you can't wear a sombrero!?"
The giant theatrical fish from T.Gilliam's "Adventures of Baron Munchausen" (1988)
Sketch of Tuesday, Duke of Hell, pointing out that it's Tuesday again. A timely and useful warning.
A door-doing.
An old pedestal fan with a green plastic 3-bladed fan and metal cage over a cream plastic base. It's pretty cool even when it's not turned on!
Sir John Tenniel's engraving of the white knight from Through the Looking Glass. (with the horse wearing anti-shark spikes around its ankles)
Amazing silk picture by Jackie Parkinson - one of the "Threads through Creation" series on display at Chester Cathedral.
Roman style mosaic of woman seated, possibly eating a lollipop of some sort... I mean, it could be a toffee-apple? Or a small battery-powered fan? Or a maraca or shaker of some kind. (I'm not an archaeologist or roman historian, ok?)
Penelope Pitstop and a rather surprised driver (Private Meekly) of the Army Surplus Special from "Wacky Races"
Ambassador G'kar of the Narn Federation. Suave, Funny, Wise and Longsuffering.
Cowboy camp
More than a dozen strange people clad all in green.
2 plates, each with an cinnamon whirl. But one whirls clockwise, one whirls anti-clockwise.
A peek through the trellis at a garden full of dandelion clocks.
Clearwater Creedence Revival. (Yes, a cover band of the original CCR) At Cardiff's Tramshed.
Ice cream cabinet. "Warning: This cabinet contains a product that exploits human weakness"
Adam Holton at the typewriter
Not the president. Just an ol' guy on a bench.
4 ceramic cows in different patterns and colours.
A bit of random nonsense from my sketchbook.
The Ukrainians - at the Louisiana in Bristol.
A painting of a view through the window from a dark street into hairdresser's shop.
A beermat of my own design, featuring an armoured knight. (Linocut, printed on my tabletop Adana letterpress machine.)
A little cartoon of a pitchfork wielding demon labelled "It's Tuesday" (I think I drew this in about 2015)
Ceramic head with a lacquered papier mache chicken sat on top.
Blowzabella at St.David's Hall, Cardiff. (quite a long time ago...)
And obscene submarine with a small a pair of BMW-style grilles. I honestly don't know what the vessel realy is and I should probably do an image search to find out...
A hummingbird hawk moth visiting a periwinkle flower (vinca major)
Lockdown Sombrero
A quick sketch of Godzilla in a horned helmet shaking a bus.
A fanciful drawing of the interior workings of a pen featuring: a mood receptor, metaphor drivers, writers-block-lubricant-reservoir, style-randomizer, context correlator, hapax-legomonon neologizer, Boschbot-surrealizer, temporal-context modification circuit, overthink-unit, Godwin-filter, snappy-retort injector, anti-tintivillus=corrector, irreversible commit-point pump and a Fraktur-Flex nib unit.
A simnel-cake - but modelled after the famous "Last Supper" fresco and with marzipan disciples modelled using a lego-minifig ice-tray.
Photo of a journal page: "It is thrilling to be extremely polite to rude strangers" "Getting cheated occasionally is the small price for trusting the best of everyone. Because when you trust the best in others they generally treat you best" "Art is whatever you can get away with"
Anna/Thiefree/Boots, long-hair and baseball-cap. September 2011
Suetcrust Pie, with dragon.
CHRONO-POLISH Timeline Cleanser Spray-on, Wipe-off! Restores a sparkling shine to your feed AND your backstory*! *May erase important memories, use with caution, always take a backup. Keep away from children.
A bottle of moisturiser labelled "Sea Kelp"
Half timbered wall with timbers in the shape of a combined T and V
French "submarine cruiser" Surcouf - with TWO 8" guns.
A chonky looking sabre-toothed cat wearing shades, labelled "AUSTROCALOTHICOPUS"
Crows in a bare tree.
A red sun low above the horizon peers through the gloom of the docks at LeHavre
B+W photo of children playing around a monstrous worm like creature.
Recipe: 8oz marge, 8oz sugar, 3-4 eggs. 10oz GF 'flour' mix (polenta, oatmeal, ground almonds, gram flour, ready-brek) 18oz fruit (cherries, currants, raisins, dates. 2tsp cinnamon 1/2cloves 1/2nutmeg 1 ginger rind of lemon.
The epic painting by Theodore Gericault of a raft of shipwrecked sailors waving hopelessly at a sail on the horizon. If I went to the Louvre, I'd ignore the Mona Lisa and head straight for this one!
An immense landscape with Joshua commanding the Sun to stand still in the sky.
A Chandler & Price printing press.
A figure studying at a desk, dimly illuminated by a lamp. Spires can be seen through the tall gothic window.
A tall cavernous room, dark, but for light streaming in through a high window. A figure in the lower corner is silhouetted, sat at a desk, reading.
"Sierra Nevada" by John Singer Sargent. A scene of goats in a rough landscape.
Farm buildings in the snow. A figure with a dog trudges to the barn. A thin crescent moon hangs in the frosty air.
Two crows on a small twisted tree.
A planning notice for a digital advertising screen near Maindy Pool