Little Cartoon Dogs Doodle

There's nothing more fun to draw than little cartoon dogs. Anyone who loves dogs should try it. Dog's expressions are just so great.

Ashby has been stealing food lately, (he appears to be in a Naughty phase at the moment). The look on his face when he's caught trying to cram in an entire lemon cake is priceless - as is the happy look after a successful cake scrat (for some idea of it, see Top left dog).

On a separate note, it sometimes bothers me that, for an artist, I struggle to say anything meaningful about my own art. (For example: They're just little, cartoon dogs. On cardboard.) But I've been sorting through artists statements at work recently, and realised that artists divide into two kinds, the kind who are good at writing pretentious bollocks talk, and the kind who aren't. And the artists who are good at the silly statements don't sell any more art. This made me feel better. Mwuh huhu.
Now I'm going to work on my bollocks talk.

Hens

Some watercolour scribbles of my Mum's hens - including Frodo the fluffy legged cockerel and the new chickens who are yet to be named. They're confined to a run at the moment, because a pair of crows are determined to eat chicken nuggets for tea.
Frodo is a fairly recent addition to the flock, named because he is tiny but with huge fluffy feet. He's only a third of the size of the Black Rock hens, and we were fairly impressed that he's achieved some offspring!

The watercolour below is a slightly more detailed study of some of the hens, painted indoors (as opposed to in the hen run)