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This work was just finished today, after a brief hiatus. I do say it loses a lot of detail in the process of shrinking and taking a photo of it is a pain, with the glares that it gives off. I should get myself a scanner bigger than A4… You can see the details in my post here. Done in acrylic ink above some Chinese ink and ink...
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An exhibition down at Dubai International Financial Centre, where I am taking part alongside other 99 artists. Lovely idea, organising all this. We get a plain white vinyl 8″ toy and let ourselves go wild! Plenty of great ideas – a Lady GaGa-inspired toy, a couple of bolt-encrusted toys, a woolly warrior and an airbrushed Filipino tribesman – and that’s just the 5 of...
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A very relaxing sight, moving along tight alleyways. This part of Dubai is stylised to look old, some buildings restored, some built anew. Onto the...
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Fujairah! Green, lush, quiet – just some of the adjectives I’d use for it. It has a unique flavour, a slightly different weather than the rest of the emirates. True, not everywhere; it has its fair share of fairly boring architecture and unimaginative sights, but the jewels that shine through really make it worth a look. Getting there might be shorter than getting to Abu Dhabi, but...
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Called it “Angel Boy” just to leave space for a drawing I’d like to call “Angel” one day. I’m horrible with titles, mine look like keywords… He was done in two nights, waterproof ink pens 0.3 and 0.6, with an occasional 0.2 in the mix. The small size hopelessly butchers all of the detail I put into those wings, so I’ll come up with another post with...
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I decided to drive down to Umm Al Quwain to shoot some scenic wadis next to a building of a failed real estate project, Umm Al Quwain Marina. Too bad I didn’t take appropriate footwear, my shoes got flimsy really quickly. Still, it was refreshing, to walk about, looking at the occasional bird or two. I will definitely take a ride there during low tide, when the sand shows through more and...
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