Just realised I haven't added a journal entry since April. So now I'm trying to think what's changed. Not a great deal; I'm still looking for a flat to live in and some of the art jobs that were on the horizon then, are, amazingly still on the (distant) horizon, now. And one of them, the significant one (which was to do new chapter art for the Dr Who Target reprints) fell by the wayside as it was decided by the publisher to stick to reprints 'as fans remember them'. Hmmm, not convinced that was such a smart move, a twist on the classics mights have added a new point of interest to buying them all again for the 'fans'. Still, can't argue with commerce. Evidently.

What else? Well I rekindled my drumming and now play in a punk band, and I'm mixing with musicians I was listening to 25/30 years ago. All good fun and after six months back in the saddle I'm getting back on top of all the drum techniques I used to know. But then I also have the more gentile distraction of my life drawing group, which I run fortnightly and is now successful enough that I can employ two models on occasion and have a lot of loyal models to choose from and keep artists on their toes.

I also had quite an immense project over the last few months of digitally restoring a painting by Koelz; a triptych called Thou Shalt Not Kill, which was cut into pieces in the 1930's to hide it's true meaning and has since been lost, apart from a few surviving pieces and b/w photos. To restore it to colour was quite an undertaking. The result will be on display as a print at the Leicester museum, appear in a BBC documentary and probably be in a book at some point.

I haven't had a lot of time to create new genre artwork, or get down to any commissions that people have requested but I'm hoping that Christmas will be a time when I can sit down with a paintbrush and get back to old school art. I have a Wacom tablet too now so I really ought to give that a go.

Oh, I'm also single and looking (for a lady)