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OPIUM

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In response to all that's GUBU here on the Emerald Isle (to those outside of Ireland, GUBU is an acronym first used during a late 1980s political scandal: Grotesque; Unprecedented; Bizarre and Unbelievable - and it never seems to stop), I have my own newly-coined acronym for these hand-painted gift artworks: OPIUM: Original; Personal; Imaginative; Unique; Memorable.

I should add; addictive but that quality is inherent in the word and it would mess up my lovely new acronym.

Let me explain: I create these unique artworks to order, usually for retiring or otherwise departing executives. These projects are fun -with all the secret meetings and development, sketches and the growing feelings of expectation -and the party at the end where the presentation of the framed art is made.

So, I'm after all the PAs I can get my hands on (so to speak). That's my goal. PAs are the 'go-to' people when an unusual project comes up within a company: Something like procuring a retireme…
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Sketchbook scribbloids 2

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I escaped from my studio last afternoon in order to buy some materials -and to spend time staring into space in a café. I had my sketchbook with me and doodled away a couple of hours over a pot of tea.
I meant to take some time to generate ideas for my Cafepress prints and cards shop that I've had for a year without developing. It needs filling with new illustrated products. Anyway, nothing was springing to mind, so my attention wandered.

There was a young woman sitting adjacent to me in the company of friends and I started drawing her but she was so animated and I was trying to be surreptitious, I had to turn it into something of a caricature.  Maybe I should have suddenly told her to stop moving, for God's sake! 



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