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Image above, pen and drawing ink on monoprint on paper. October 2021. Top image, ink on perspex.

My love of Robert Wyatt and Alfie Benge continues unabated. I do not abate! And I will not! New mugs available soon on the Raw Art site – based on drawings… please buy their book Side by Side if you are a fan. It shows how closely they work together, are inspired by each other,…

Automatic Lunatik drawings made on pages which do not correspond to the date. July 2021 onwards. Reflecting the mood. Emoji, Madge Gill, Spiritualism, disaster, highs, lows, Haring, Basquiat, soul music, pen and ink. better drawn with a Mitsubishi Uniball Micro Deluxe 0.5 – hard to find in this country now. Damn it!

Pencil and charcoal points around the home. Tiny tips, fallen out of pencils. One unused charcoal. Do they not have homes to go to?

Now the school are back they are giving the children lateral flow test to do at home twice a week. I realised the plastic skull was on the table (for homework) already and nestling by the test paraphernalia.

The featured image is the skeleton of a tree, December 2020. Similar to an Egon Scheile landscape, perhaps. Schiele’s “lifestyle choices” were not particularly good, but paintings of his surrounds are exceptional.

The restrictions. Tier two is high alert, and we’re told this via bus hoardings in London at present. On the design front, the colour scheme for this seems to be Lucozade orange, and presumably they go for bright MAJOR ALERT red for Tier three. However, the fact that tiers run up… rather than down (like…