The Woeful Office. Some of my editorial illustration can now be seen at the following link. New examples of this kind of work will be posted there every so often. http://woefuloffice.blogspot.com/

Solomon Kane has finally come to cinema's in the UK. I had a small role in the film in which my character 'Garrick' engages in a bit of 'argy-bargy' with Solomon Kane (James Purefoy) and Telford (Philip Winchester). It was a great opportunity to find myself working with these two excellent actors. I look forward to it coming to Prague, so that I can see it for myself. I've only really seen my own

Earlier I showed this as it was initially in black line but the image was taken with my iPhone and quite blurry. This is the piece and shows King Claudius, Queen Gertrude and R and G together during rehearsals.The players are Curtis Mathew, Matthew Blood-Smyth, Beathe Linde and Jim High.

Queen Gertrude played by Beathe Linde.

The largest pieces in this set are made up of 4 pieces of card. The media includes pencil, pastel, wine and Indian Ink. I did all seven over 2 days (coffee was an important factor). I would prefer to have all my pictures bespoke framed. I know good framing when I see it and have a friend who happens to be the worlds greatest framer. I'll cream pie anybody who says he's not. But time and cost

In the image of King Claudius below, you can see where I used wine to create a shadow beneath his hat. Look also at Rosencrantz, the shadow under his neck and his hair are wine. In my next post I'll show the finished works and demonstrate how wine can be used as a base tint.

I've long had an interest in dramatic and stage-like images. My series 'The Living Room Theatre' stands as an early example. A while back I put the feelers out to see if any of the theatre companies here would allow me to sit in on rehearsals for sketching purposes. Well, to cut a long story short, my friend Jim High, an English actor based in Prague, invited me to come along to rehearsals for

Ok, a quick post on shoddy service in the wilds of Bohemia. Many months ago my printer began failing me. But wait, first, do you work for Epson?…better still do you service printers and does the following sound normal to you?As far as I'm concerned the two best technologies I've ever worked with are Apple and Epson. Both are superb, I'm a fan. The Epson printers are the best I've ever used. The

Another design, but these are not yet online, please consider this is a sneek-peak. Anyway, I'll post on this again as the set come available. Meanwhile you can buy the first in the series at the link below. Woman and children only at the moment but mens sizes are coming soon...Let me know what you think, and thanks for all the feedback!

Thanks to my friend James Gogarty for the suggested title of this series. James and I like to drink wine and I happened to be drinking wine when I designed these shoes. Unfortunately that is the strongest connection I can offer for this series. I know, it has nothing to do with painting with wine...my apologies. The shoes are signed 'Booda' on the heel...My original shoes can be bought here...

With 'Burns Night' coming up here's an article on the delights of eating haggis with a glass of wine... enjoy!

Back in September I started making pictures to send out to random followers on Twitter, little things, small delights. I chose a number at random and when a new 'follower' added 'Opipop' (My Twitter amp; eBay Name) I would check what number they were. Number 500 was the big winner but sadly that follower mysteriously stopped tweeting and proved unreachable, seemingly hidden away in the Andes or so

1. I started cutting down the many pages that will make up the new large scale wine study, stage one...2. I'm planning on offering small sketches again on eBay auctions etc. If you would like advance notice of upcoming auctions, drop me a line at opipop@gmail.com , thanks.

I get messages here, I see them when I come to tap out a blog entry. Today I have six messages...from 'call girls' and a company promoting ink cartridges for printers. It's pretty odd, makes for a strange following. I feel like a pixelated Lautrec wreathed in a string of digital feather boa's. Somehow these messages all begin as though they refer to my latest posting before making a difficult

Royal Vanitus of Scotland, framed and delivered a few weeks back. You can read about this image and see better shots than this badly taken phone snap below...or follow this link.

Regardless of the Christmas madness, over-long school holidays, running around with a bucket at all hours treating my wee family for 'flu like symptoms' (I don't know was it 'that flu'? hell knows), acting in a short film project, preparing a painting for a charitable cause and family visits, it's been business as usual here in Wine Ink HQ. But no, I've not blogged. If you have followed this blog