James

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A digital drawing showing Grace and Rocky. Grace is in the foreground, wearing his fox cardigan, smiling as he looks in the direction of Rocky, who is in the background in his xenonite ball, exclaiming “Amaze! Amaze! Amaze!“
Digital drawing. The head of a city pigeon drawn as viewed from the side. Its bluish-grey feathers are softly reflecting the light from above. The green and violet feathers on its neck are slightly iridescent. The eye of the pigeon is a fiery orange colour.
A hand-painted bookmark showing a path meandering through a brushy landscape towards a sunset at the horizon. On the right, a smaller piece showing a sunset behind mountains. Both acrylic on paper.
Digital drawing. The head of a kingfisher drawn as viewed from the side. The turquoise/blue iridescent feathers on its head are reflecting the light and form a nice contrast to the matte, orange feathers on its cheek. Its beak is long and almost silver, its eye is dark with a pinhead of reflected light in the pupil.
The cover of a zine displaying the title "Loveable". On the left, words are added to spell out the sentence "I am loveable!"; on the right, words are added to spell out the question "Am I loveable?". Grey scribbles framing the page form a heart.
Photo of three wall shelves (two shorter shelves above, one longer and wider one at the bottom). On the top shelf are two framed art prints showing Yorkshire landscapes. A dark green and red paper chain hangs from this shelf in a nice, even bow. On the middle shelf there are some books and knick-knacks. The bottom shelf also features all kinds of trinkets, along with various theatre programs (Twelfth Night, A Midsummer Night's Dream, etc.), a knitted bunny dressed up as Malvolio, and two mice with Christmas outfits on, dressed in green and red respectively, sitting at the edge of the shelf with their legs dangling in the air.
Painting of a crow sitting on a branch. The colours are flat and splotchy, some areas are still unpainted, the sketch and outlines peeking through.
A digital painting of an apple core. The sides that have been bitten off form the silhouettes of Audrey and Siegfried (from the 2020 TV show “All Creatures Great and Small“) in profile. The apple is coloured and shaded in a painterly way, whilst both characters‘ heads are only sketched in to let the focus remain on the apple core. The two apple seeds in the middle of the core are arranged to form a heart.
Colourful beads strung together to form a lizard keychain.
Beads of different colours strung together to form the shape of a rat, with a rainbow carabiner attached to the end of the tail.
The book "Cobweb" by Michael Morpurgo. The book is closed and its cover depicts the protagonist, a Pembrokeshire corgi named Cobweb, front and center in the countryside of Wales. Behind him stands an army drummer, and birds are soaring through the golden sky.
I am holding the book "The Wild Robot" by Peter Brown in front of a white background. The cover is an illustration by the author, depicting Roz, the robot protagonist, standing on top of a rocky cliff, overlooking the ocean beneath. Behind Roz, a red sun can be seen above a forest landscape. The bold letters spelling out the title of the book are in a blocky font that resembles the strokes of a hard paintbrush.
A picrew (digital dress-up game) image depicting what is supposed to be the poster: a young man with short, side-parted, blond hair, freckles, and pale skin. He is wearing a dark, collared shirt with a dark blue jacket. The artist who created this picrew game is called Fuzenia.
A digitally drawn portrait. Depicted is British actor Peter Sandys-Clarke as Edward Burne-Jones in „Desperate Romantics“. He is facing the left side of the image. Edward is wearing a suit with a waistcoat and cravat. In his left hand, he is holding a sandwich as he looks upwards.
Postcard with a vector image of an MGTD Roadster from 1953 on a white background.
Practice drawing I had made before. Digital illustration of a great auk standing on a rocky cliff.
Digital illustration of a Great Auk. The bird is depicted from its side and it is stretching its neck and body upwards to catch a fish in its beak. The background is a muted, dark blue.
Digital illustration of a Great Auk‘s head on a white background.
Two pens shaped like fish. The tail fins are the pen caps.
A photo of an Egyptian goose standing on a lawn that has become a field of daisies.
A digital illustration of an Egyptian goose on a dark green background. The goose is framed by seven daisies.
A photo of David Tennant wearing sunglasses. The corners of his mouth are slightly downturned. Next to his head, white letters spell out the word "pain".
A Lindt chocolate bunny.
A small, rectangular canvas, standing upright. The motive is a crow sitting on a branch. The background is black, the crow has been painted in different shades of blue. Half of it, as well as the branch, are still just the sketch, and the colours that are already on the canvas are just flat colours, without shading.
On a sloping river bank, an Egyptian goose is foraging in the grass. It looks around and is taking small steps as it explores its environment.
Eleven plastic boxes filled with beads in different colours and shapes, some with letters on them.
A digital drawing of a hawfinch‘s upper body half on a yellow background.
A partially shaded digital drawing of a hawfinch.
A nutria is grazing on a grassy river bank, then turns to leave towards the water.
A grey heron sitting on top of a budding tree (possibly a willow – I'm no good at identifying trees). The bird's long neck is fully stretched out and it is looking over its shoulder towards the left.
A red vintage car from the company "Sembo Block", made of building blocks (akin to Lego). Design-wise it looks like a sports tourer from the 1930s.
Two baking trays with chocolate biscuits in the shape of cats.
A digital drawing of an oystercatcher and a sanderling on a beach. The oystercatcher is the bigger of the two and has black, and white feathers with a bright orange beak. The sanderling is smaller and has feathers in the colours brown, grey, and white. Its beak is black. The background is blurred.
A flock of cranes is flying overhead in multiple V formations. The sky is filled with white clouds and the camera follows the birds' movement. The birds make quite some noise calling out to each other.
Shelves on a white wall. On the shelves are all kinds of mementos: prints, theatre programmes, soft toys, mugs, etc. To the right of the shelves hangs a picture frame containing a poster of the Watermill Theatre's production of "The King's Speech".
Three shelves on a white wall. The two upper shelves are shorter than the lowest one. The top shelf is still empty. On the middle one are a mug with different dinosaur skeletons printed on it, a cardboard stegosaurus model, a programme of RSC's production of "A Midsummer Night's Dream", and a small soft toy horse (that could be read as a donkey). On the lowest shelf are on the left a knitted bunny dressed to look like "Twefth Night"'s Malvolio, a programme of the RSC's production of "Twelfth Night", and an edition of said play itself. To the right end of the shelf are an "All Creatures Great and Small" mug, a magnet depicting the square of the village Grassington, a steel model of a Supermarine Spitfire, and a picture frame that displays a few different metal and enamel pins.
A small and shiny steel model of a Supermarine Spitfire (a British fighter aircraft used mainly during the second world war).
The square in Grassington. In the picture are, to the left, The Stripey Badger, and in center, further back, "Skeldale House".
A stone placed in a flowerbed in the square of Grassington carved to say "Welcome to Grassington". Also carved into it are livestock like a sheep and other things important in this region.
In center: a sheep grazing on a pasture with fresh, green grass. In the foreground, the scene is framed by a dip in one of the stone walls typical for the Yorkshire Dales. Beyond the other wall in the back, one can see houses and the characteristic landscape with hills and stone walls.
View from a bridge onto the canal in Skipton (UK). On the left, a house made from bricks with a grey roof and white window frames. On the right of the canal, narrowboats are parked in an orderly line, just by a footpath that leads down the canal side. In the distance, a church tower.
A digital drawing, showing Mrs Hall (played by Anna Madeley) from the show "All Creatures Great and Small" (2020) from the side, from the shoulders up. Mrs Hall has a slight smile on her face and is wearing a light turquoise sweater with a mauve-coloured blazer.
The street in front of the Young Vic Theatre in London. The focus is on a row of posters promoting the play "The Little Foxes" that are put up on the wall of the building.
Outside of Weston Park Museum in Sheffield, UK. The building is ground floor only, made of sandstone, and emulates the look of ancient Greek temple architecture. The sky in the background is covered in light grey clouds.
Sketch of a feral pigeon on A5-sized paper, held up in front of a wall covered in framed paintings, in Weston Park Museum, Sheffield, UK. The sketch is labeled "Feral pigeon I photographed in Norfolk" in the top right corner.
Digital sketch of an oystercatcher (a bird with brown-black and white feathers, pink feet and a bright orange, long beak). The base colours are filled in and the beak has already been partially shaded.
Inside Norwich Cathedral. In the background, rows of chairs towards the right, the altar way in the back centre of the picture. In focus in the foreground sits Budge, the resident cat, looking to the side. Budge has a white belly, a brown, striped back, a dark brown tail wrapped around the front paws.
A domesticated duck with a pink beak, a red face, and a white and light grey body with bright orange coloured feet. The duck looks at the camera with curiosity.
Lolly Adefope on tv
Christmas cookies decorated to look like Siegfried and Audrey.
Digital drawing of Siegfried holding Vonolel.
Snakes and Ladders boardgame. One player (Eli) is on field 67, my figurine is on field 100.
One side of the gameboard of "battleships". Different coloured pegs are logging hits and misses.
A big poster promoting A Midsummer Night's Dream in the lobby of Barbican Theatre.
A blue triceratops stuffed animal named Biscuit and a moss green Jellycat bunny are tucked into bed.
The RSC theatre building in Stratford-upon-Avon
Digital drawing: side view portrait of Peter Sandys-Clarke as Bertie in The Watermill Theatre‘s production of The King’s Speech
A herd of red deer with a handful of fallow deer at Richmond Park, London. Some resting, some grazing, some walking around.
Promotional photo from BBC sitcom Ghosts: The Captain in front of the union jack.
A little egret standing on a half-submerged log by the shore of a lake