Norman the knight was discovered skulking behind some dusty brassware in one of our local antique shops. He wasn’t expensive, probably because he’s not really very fierce. Hardly the sort of knight you’d expect to see going off to battle, is he? I reckon he just likes the uniform, know what I mean?
Norman recently sat [...]

Meet Ozzie.
He has “Hell’s Bears” written on the back of his leather jacket. He’s been in the wars,too, as the saying goes; one of his motorcycle handlebars is missing. He was like that when we got him. We didn’t mind, though. We just liked the look of his little pudgy face. (I hope he’s not [...]

I can’t draw.
Or, at least, that’s what I always thought.
Over the past few years, though, I’ve been having a go. Turns out, I was misled, not only by parents and teachers but also by myself. I have still a long way to go, perhaps, but these early experiments in sketching have opened up a whole [...]

When I was but a wee child, everyone in our family used to refer to elephants as ‘nellies’. It was all something to do with the old rock song, Nellie the Elephant, apparently.
This, however, is no Nellie; this is an exquisite china elephant that we bought sometime early in 2008. According to my sketchbook, I [...]