Adrienne and Battle Kitten Sage

Some Rebecca Dart fan art! Featuring two models I had to hand. :)

Bangers

Adrienne at Yakcheonsa Temple

Transport

We bought ourselves a scooter to explore more of this wonderful island. It's been better than we could have imagined, stopping wherever we like just to stare about, before shooting off again.
Fantastic.

The Wolf God

Not the Thing, But the Idea of the Thing

I love the idea that something is only represented on screen by what people think of it. In Runaways, I'm planning a wolf god for dogs, wolves in nightmares, plays, hallucinations and caricatures. I want to explore the idea that stories with wolves in are really just about people and their relationship with nature.

Above the Waves

                     "Salt water is bitter. It disdains all human connection; love and hate, debt and honour, the care of a father or the embrace of a lover. It is merciless to all peoples alike, not stooping to distinguish between the good and bad among its victims.
                    Some talk however, of those who cannot sink or drown, but walk the ocean waves as vagrants on an endless desert."  
                                               ~ Old Sailor

This story begins with a ship wrecked at sea.
                    A young mother still weak from bringing her boy into the world was pulled under in the tempest along with the entire crew, even as they celebrated his birthday.
                    Yet this twice adored boy was left behind. For since his first breath let loose in his first scream, the sea had loved him too, instantly and unconditionally. The sea spared the boy for its surface, where those roam whom it has disdained for their loneliness, their callousness and their abjection, so that it could watch the boy and keep him for its own.

New Characters

Two of the main players in Project: Runaways; Andrew Scott, Regional Council leader and Macpherson, the sheep farmer.

A Park in Jeju - Evening

This Vicious Cabaret

They say that there's a broken light

For every heart on broadway.

They say that life's a game,

then they take the board away.

They give you masks and costumes

and an outline of the story.

Then leave you all to improvise

their vicious cabaret.

-Alan Moore

An Ancient Copse

You can tell how old a hedgerow is by the number of species that makes it, I think the same is true for a copse in which case, this one must be ancient!

The Rise

On nurturing ideas

Hermit

In the tempest something forms

And sheltered by its shell it warms

An idea that weathers all the storms

And the changes of its mind

The naked crab runs down the dunes

Its death or safety decided soon

Either claw or beak will bring its doom

Or else shelter it must find.

Her voice speaks and doesn’t quaver

The hazy vastness does not faze her

She throws herself upon its favour

And it replies to her in kind.

And though she walks the bed alone

Like a hermit crab without a home

She reaches in and makes her own

In the depths of her own mind.

For her the open sea to dare

Beyond no shell for her to wear

Moving on, abandoning her care

For the home she left behind.

-Ewan Green 2012                    

Boy From Photo Reference

Badly Eroded Statue With Geraniums

This Magnificent Bastard

was in a procession making its way up The Mound, preceeded by a woman bearing a sword.

Above the Waves

Can't wait to get started making animation again! This is from my second series and is a drawing from 2009, so I've been mulling it over for a while. I think he'll be growing a nappy for next time.

A Selection of Inspirations from Edinburgh

Anima Cards