Orange Monster

These are my festival sheep they are not really an illustration but I thought they could be incorporated into at the least a web-comic 🙂

I drew this to express the way I feel about science and art just being facets of creativity.

This is one of my felt pen pictures.

This is not one of my best but I thought I’d share it with you all as this year is the Turin Centinary

I drew this picture in response to the discovery of a higgs-boson.

This is a visual joke or pun about the Higgs field. It is in no way correct. I drew it last night and already this morning my little girl asks ‘What’s a Higgs Field?’ so it’s purpose has been served.

A Higgs Field is not the type of field where fluffy lambs play but it is thought to ‘birth’ the particles of the Boson family. These are sub-atomical particles but they are some of the ones that make up the sub-atomics you learnt at school. The Higgs-Boson particles are thought to be what gives all the other particles mass. Mass is what makes matter all clump together.

Matter is everything, so that is the atoms that make the stars, the atoms that make the Earth, the atoms that make you and me and Jeany and little baby Mary. All of it.

Without the Higgs everything would be wizzing around at the speed of light – they think. This was the idea they came up with 50 years ago, well specifically Peter Higgs did and he was told he was wrong but he kept going even though it is scary to be told you are wrong.

Now I’m still abit hazy on what is a field in this case and what is the particle so you may have to look that up yourself. (on that note guys are we talking probability fields and planck equations here? I’m a bit confused as the field is supposed to permeate the universe?)

The picture came from a friends facebook status were he gave his life sciences view on what had happened yesterday. I liked the imagery of a field giving birth to a particle and then I thought about the fact that yesterdays discovery had taken fifty years but like 3 of hard slog and that became the labour in my mind. Then I thought about the fact that they have found a Higgs-Boson and not the Higgs-Boson* and how annoyed anyone would be to have spent that long in labour and be told it wasn’t over yet!

It is a shameless personification of something that can only really be visualised with mind bending maths and it is done as a joke! Honest guys don’t shoot me 🙂

p.s. I am not saying that the theoretical part before the collider wasn’t hard slog but more that the physical aspect of the experiments fit better with the idea of labour!

As part of the Art Tournament mini festival in August there is a picture on a post card competition organised by Sabre Arts. Here are my two entries:

My little girl did her own postcard though she is not old enough to enter, she decided to do a space theme too 🙂

The cards are going to be auctioned for charity after the comp is over :).

I have brain stormed away and could probably keep going but there is no point – I have 100 titles and concept for Little Books of Poetry and I really want to get these written before I even contemplate any more titles. As it is it will take me years to do this!

I mean if you look at it another way it is almost 1000 poems! I say almost as I have already doubled up in some of the books I’ve already compiled. Poems that are themed to both or a poem I’d already written that fits etc.. but that is still a lot of poems and would take more than ten years even if I focused all the poem a day challenges I take part in on them!

This is a bit duaghnting so I am not thinking of it like that – instead I will carry on producing a few a year primarily for my own family.

1) The Little Book of Spoogy Poetry

2) The Little Book of Festive Poetry

3) The Little Book of Sparky Poetry

4) The Little Book of Easter Poetry

5) The Little Book of New Baby Poetry

6) The Little Book of Wedding Poetry

7) The Little Book of Birthday Poetry

8) The Little Book of School Time Poetry

9) The Little Book of Feasts and What Not Poetry

10) The Little Book of Holiday Poetry

11) The Little Book of Harvest Poetry

12) The Little Book of New Year Poetry

13) The Little Book of Yule Tide Poetry

14) The Little Book of Aminal Poetry

15) The Little Book of Adventure Poetry

16) The Little Book of Summer Poetry

17) The Little Book of Winter Poetry

18) The Little Book of Spring Time Poetry

19) The Little Book of Autumn Poetry

20) The Little Book of Pet Poetry

21) The Little Book of Seaside Poetry

22) The Little Book of Mountain Poetry

23) The Little Book of Woodland Poetry

24) The Little Book of Rainy Day Poetry

25) The Little Book of Sports Poetry

26) The Little Book of Science Poetry

27) The Little Book of Nature Poetry

28) The Little Book of History Poetry

29) The Little Book of Weather Poetry

30) The Little Book of Dinolicious Poetry

31) The Little Book of Ugg Poetry

32) The Little Book of Rock Poetry

33) The Little Book of Traveling Poetry

34) The Little Book of Oceanic Poetry

35) The Little Book of Icy Poetry

36) The Little Book of Electric Poetry

37) The Little Book of Farm Poetry

39) The Little Book of Flying Poetry

40) The Little Book of Space Poetry

41) The Little Book of Iron Poetry

42) The Little Book of Bronze Poetry

43) The Little Book of Zoo Poetry

44) The Little Book of Circus Poetry

45) The Little Book of Fairy Tale Poetry

46) The Little Book of Cooking Poetry

47) The Little Book of Insect Poetry

48) The Little Book of Bird Poetry

49) The Little Book of Flower Poetry

50) The Little Book of Reptile Poetry

51) The Little Book of ‘Shroom Poetry

52) The Little Book of Fairy Poetry

53) The Little Book of Dragon Poetry

54) The Little Book of Mermaid Poetry

55) The Little Book of Troll Poetry

56) The Little Book of Wizard Poetry

57) The Little Book of Magic Poetry

58) The Little Book of Witch Poetry

59) The Little Book of Mythic Poetry

60) The Little Book of Legends Poetry

61) The Little Book of Robin Hood Poetry

62) The Little Book of King Aurthur Poetry

63) The Little Book of Victorian Stuff Poetry

64) The Little Book of Tudor Stuff Poetry

65) The Little Book of Saxon Stuff Poetry

66) The Little Book of Norman Stuff Peotry

67) The Little Book of Viking Stuff Poetry

68) The Little Book of Museum Poetry

69) The Little Book of Rainbow Poetry

70) The Little Book of Jungle Poetry

71) The Little Book of Rainforest Poetry

72) The Little Book of Desert Poetry

73) The Little Book of Desserts Poetry

74) The Little Book of Foodie Poetry

75) The Little Book of Arctic Poetry

76) The Little Book of Savanna Poetry

77) The Little Book of Yellow Poetry

78) The Little Book of Red Poetry

79) The Little Book of Blue Poetry

80) The Little Book of Green Poetry

81) The Little Book of Pink Poetry

82) The Little Book of White Poetry

83) The Little Book of Black Poetry

84) The Little Book of Grey Poetry

85) The Little Book of Brown Poetry

86) The Little Book of Orange Poetry

87) The Little Book of Purple Poetry

88) The Little Book of Tree Poetry

89) The Little Book of Colour Poetry

90) The Little Boo of Fruity Poetry

91) The Little Book of Toy Poetry

92) The Little Book of Teddy Bear Poetry

93) The Little Book of Dog Poetry

94) The Little Book of Amphibian Poetry

95) The Little Book of Medievil Stuff Poetry

96) The Little Book of Bed Time Poetry

97) The Little Book of Playtime Poetry

98) The Little Book of Music Poetry

99) The Little Book of Garden Poetry

100) The Little Book of Vegitable Poetry

91) The Little Book of Toy Poetry

92) The Little Book of Teddy Bear Poetry

93) The Little Book of Dog Poetry

94) The Little Book of Amphibian Poetry

95) The Little Book of Medievil Stuff Poetry

96) The Little Book of Bed Time Poetry

97) The Little Book of Playtime Poetry

98) The Little Book of Music Poetry

99) The Little Book of Garden Poetry

100) The Little Book of Vegitable Poetry

81) The Little Book of Pink Poetry

82) The Little Book of White Poetry

83) The Little Book of Black Poetry

84) The Little Book of Grey Poetry

85) The Little Book of Brown Poetry

86) The Little Book of Orange Poetry

87) The Little Book of Purple Poetry

88) The Little Book of Tree Poetry

89) The Little Book of Colour Poetry

90) The Little Boo of Fruity Poetry