What's in a name?

If I have a 'most popular' commission....and I use that phrase cautiously, it would be the paintings I produce of peoples names with an illustrated background.

Nearly always for children, but not exclusively, they allow me to fill a page with colourful and exotic creations and freestyle a bit with a paintbrush.

Doodling really....and if you've ever sat near me during an important meeting or training exercise you'll know I'm really good at doodling. Some of my best work has materialised when I should be paying attention to someone else.

I'm lucky enough to have been asked to paint for a few people that like unique artwork for themselves and others. I'm also tight enough not to buy Christmas presents, so friends' kids, nieces and nephews walls are littered with my work whether they wanted them or not.

Pets next.

Though each painting is completely original, I do use a menagerie of returning cast members. Keep an eye out for bubble blowers, rainbow, donuts and one-eyed aliens. Sometimes the client will ask for specific details. I love that....vagueness and clients not knowing what they want, only to tell you that they didn't want, once you have painted it, can be time consuming.

I've yet to have a repetition of the same name, or a Peter....both would be extremely exciting....imagine if 2 Peter's came in at once!

I nearly put in 2 exclamation marks.

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Been a long time since I rock 'n' rolled.

See! See!!..2 posts in 2 days. The very model of consistency.

I'm writing this in the early hours of Wednesday morning, a tad apprehensive at the prospect of returning to the school I teach in today. As mentioned in yesterdays gripping blog installment, the country, nay World, is on lock down and as part of that, schools have been closed for over a fortnight now, with homeschooling taking place....or not.

I think there's likely to be more staff than pupils, so it should be absolutely fine. Just need to find trousers that haven't got an elasticated waistband.

A while back the ever awesome Download Festival, which takes place just a stones throw from where I live now, did their bit for maintaining the nations moral by running a creative competition.

Entitled, Download Rocks at Home....catchy, the basic idea was very simple, create something that illustrates what Download means to you, even though it's not running this year because of.......yeah, that virus again. (My tickets will be used next year, fear ye not!)

My track record with competitions doesn't have a track, let alone records to speak of, but it was very open ended and I'm well metal, so I though I'd give it a bash.

So, long story short, last night I received a message via my insta (@instagram/tameink)....to say that I'd only gone and won the flipping thing!

Result that.

No idea what I've won, don't care really....unless it's VIP toilet passes, because those would be priceless, but I'd be lying if I didn't say I was well chuffed. If nothing else it gives a bit of profile to www.Tameink.com and might generate a couple of sales further down the line.

Someone's already contacted me about getting a print of this, and perhaps about a t-shirt too. I doubt either is a possibility really, given copyright issues, virus's and being embarrassed whenever someone takes an interest. It's nice to have positive feedback though.

I'll let you know what my prize was, unless it's a bit rubbish, and then I might not.

Cheers Download

Pete

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