I’m still making that lino feel very sorry for itself, here’s an action shot as I forget what exactly I’m meant to be doing:

There’ll be another update later when I’ve gotten everything all inky.

As part of a shuffle towards being more of a respectable artist (whatever that looks like), I’m going to start using my real name on the internet. So, here’s my first post as Ryan S. Thomason:

I’ve been cutting lino today. I’m really pleased, so far, with the one I finished:

I’ll be printing this tomorrow, come back and check it out.

This is from my last day off, where it looks like somebody’s trying to hide Edinburgh…

This pretty much sums up my weekend:

There’s no drawing for you today. Why? Take a look:

Normal service continues with Zombie Kitty tomorrow. I need to find a pin…

Looks like I survived the weekend there. I seem to have forgotten to post anything on Friday though, so here’s something from my Christmas TV binge:

Oh and this is me today:

Zombie Kitty tomorrow, yes?

I’ve inherited the running of a collaborative art project going by the name of Notebookery UK and I’m just in the process of setting it in motion again. If that sounds like a good plan, e-mail me at notebookeryuk@gmail.com and I’ll put you on the list.

Go sign up! I need to get this notebook out of the house before it eats what puny brains I have left:

It looks like I’ve mostly won my epic struggle against this damn CSS thingy. I say ‘mostly’, you might have noticed that the sidebar has wandered off to the bottom of the page without telling anybody. If anybody knows what I should shout at to make this go away, that would be awesome. Edit: fixed! Cheers Tony! In other news: the Fringe is on the go, I ventured into that Outside World place again:

the Space Cowboy playing with the Dangerous Hat! And can somebody come with me next time I’m on the Royal Mile so I catch a bit more of the free shows than the grand finale? That’d be great. Right, see you later!

And today I got to the museum. There was Aurochs heid!

Five minute sketch with a class of screaming ten year olds pointing out that the beardy guy that smells funny is drawing something. Also! the Lewis Chess Set, including these nutjobs:

hee hee hee, I thought my day was made then I saw this bad boy:

This is a model of a sea scorpion, it is the same size as the fossil next to it at about four feet long. Wikipedia also reckons there was a different one of these that was eight feet of terror pure awesome. Sorry giant isopods, you are no longer my favourite marine crawly thing.

Looks like the outside world is still there:

I found an Actionsnail on my travels as well:

Actionsnail is hungover and having a fencenap. Or something. Real drawings later if stuff goes to plan…