Gotta Paint 'Em All.

I had mentioned previously that being locked inside for weeks on end isn't the total nightmare for me it would appear to be for many others. Don't get me wrong, I have a garden, my health and my family....without these it would indeed be horrendous.

But having a willingness to use this enforced isolation as a means to let loose allows me to be creative and play around a bit. Drawing, painting, some digital work and the odd paper creation have turned up. I'll show these in future blogs maybe.

This watercolour was created as a commission for a bloke named Johnny, an ex-student of mine actually, and a mean skateboarder and DJ to boot.....I don't know if DJ's are called DJ's any more, so apologies if there's a more up to date term Johnny.

His brother enjoys gaming, and I was very pleased with the outcome. Plenty of anime type characters and Kawaii creatures to keep this nerd happy.

Doctor Robotnix Mean Bean Machine did for me and my personal hygiene as a teenager, what Animal Crossing is currently doing to my daughter.

Stay safe

Pete

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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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