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dready remembrances …

The future of the horse 30x13 original commission

Morgan wanted something to remember the life of his father … kind of a man of vision … and a man of hard work and imagination   history

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dready wedding in paradise …

beggs the question original commission 21x13

one of those fulfilling little things that I get to do is the drawing of art for weddings … so much hope and love all tied up in it … in this case I did two pieces, one for the bride and groom as a gift from the bride’s

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dready family portrait (?)

durfy family vespafari Remarque 30 x 20

is cool that people still want the traditional dreadys to express themselves as a family; the continuum for me is extra special …. lovenesses …

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dready botanicals

dready pandanus palm 14x19

when I was growing up botanical prints were kinda a thing on walls, that and 18th century engravings of Jamaica … anyhow, so over the past years I have been separating specific dready images, putting cats and dogs and trees and men and women in their own files so

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dready places I like to go …

dready tofino beach 36x13

I love Tofino, it’s an amazing place on Vancouver Island, the nature, the surrounding wilderness, the light, the colour … it’s all cool … artists portraying the Canadian landscape, often seem to have a theme – one that has a ‘moodiness’ at its core – and I wanted to

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dready cow peoples

cowboy

further down these blog posts there’s an image called ‘honey coloured grass’ which contains all these characters, but I wanted to pull them out and give them some space of their own so that people could appreciate them … I had originally been asked to draw the image for

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dready the fat pony

dready the fat pony

the whole of my mother’s side of the family, my mother completely excluded, were horsey; the men, their wives, all the children, horsey as f**k and so my grandparents house was filled with the thewell comic books about fat, indisciplined ponies and their fat ill-disciplined riders … and even

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dready … still in with the traditional

'ssup dude

so, if you don’t know by now, by reading it a few posts below, I work in two ways; the traditional stick figure dreadys where I first started out and because some things (myself included) demanded it, more evolved fully realised characters. but, ya know, still love the traditional

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dready … things that used to was

tequila made me do it 58x20

do you remember ‘the office christmas party’? in these past few pandemic years its one of those things that disappeared and may forever be ‘altered’ … a company asked me to do a drawing of the people in the office … they are a close knit group who try

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Dready … the red hills of scotland

the red hills of scotland 36x13

we were in scotland in the fall while the bracken was turning and it gave the hills a distinctive colour … one day, while out walking, she said, ‘look how red the hills look’ … kingston, jamaica, has, like rome, 7 hills, and one of them is red hills

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