Adam Byatt

Pincushion Flower
Brush pen and coloured pencil on A5

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FICTION FRIDAY
Things Learned from the Book of Lamentations
The dust swept from behind the door is a substitute for dusting icing sugar on a sponge cake. It also adds texture to a Vegemite sandwich...

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🪻Lavender 🪻

Brush pen on paper bag

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YouTube video by John Thompson Stunning version of “Goldilox” by King’s X to close out their fantastic 10/23/22 set in Nashville.

Just one of those songs where you know all the words
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_gB5...

Live.
Laugh.
Murder the old guy upstairs, bury him under the floorboards until the existential dread of my guilt surfaces in the cacophony of his beating heart until lunacy comes upon me.

The Politics of Fear As a Presidential candidate, Donald Trump made his world view plain: there was “us” and there was “them.” Once he was in the White House, the fear factor would prevail.

"Cartoon bullies do not inevitably prevail."

www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Live.
Laugh.
Make a perilous journey to the fires of Mount Doom to destroy the One Ring and along the way learn the value of potatoes.

The high quality conversations I have with my brother.
We both love donuts and he had been grocery shopping. He did not succumb. I have him my honest opinion.

Phalaenopsis Orchid By The Window
Felt pen on A5

Inspired by a @em__lily_

If only the texta I was using wasn't on its way out. Need to refine my pen skills

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Experiments with a brush pen in continuous line drawing
Pen is a Pentel Fude (inspired by @sabet)
This involves all sorts of new pen technique and control compared to a hard felt tip that I'm used to with the Staedtler pens. Does make for intriguing line choices of depth or thinness
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FICTION FRIDAY - The Broken Window Theory
Dad reads aloud from behind the paper while we’re having dessert on Thursday evening. “A building with a broken window that has been left unrepaired will give the appearance that no one cares and no one is in charge.”

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Bloom even when the thorns are in your flesh

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Phalaenopsis In Purple
Gel pen and felt markers on A5

A "quick" afternoon sketch. I say quick, but in comparison to single line drawing, it's quite a bit longer. I am learning to take my time. Hasty is not always the most efficient technique.

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Faffing about last night. Some parts I like. Other parts are wonky and out of proportion. It's not my usual style, and I didn't pencil this one out first, just freestyled it.
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Tim Winton among 100 high-profile Australians calling for university fees that don’t ‘punish’ arts students Open letter urges Labor to reverse JRG scheme, introduced by Coalition in 2021, as cost of humanities degrees reaches more than $50,000

PREACH!
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

YouTube video by Doctor Bob & the Amazing Disciples of Groove - Topic Lighthouse Keeper's Blues

Was thinking over a story idea while ironing uniforms for tomorrow and this song popped into my head in relation to the story's themes, and I haven't listened to it for a long long time. That has been rectified, and now I think you should listen to the blues.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=s38R...

Full review of @msparisrose.bsky.social latest collection, Barefoot Poetess, in the screenshot.
It's brilliant.

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Handkerchiefs Are For Emergency Occasions
I don't fear the darkness because I have learned what lives there: the restlessness of our souls who yearn for an understanding of what makes the heart sing...
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If you don't already, watch Colbert. He is a man with no more f*cks left to give. And it's glorious.

Check out this song parody from last night's show: Mike Johnson Delays House Epstein Vote Until September

Sign in the men's bathroom.
A response list poem.

Out of luck
Out of time
Out of town
Out of space
Out of care
Out of patience
Out of f**ks
Out of chocolate
Out of donuts
Out of my mind

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Elkhorn/Staghorn
(I don't know)
Pencil and Felt Pen

Putting this on the virtual fridge door for people to look at. Don't know if it's "good" or "bad" (subjectivity as always) however, I enjoyed the process of creating this piece.

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🚨 Book Mail Day 🚨
The Pigeon of Proclamation is happy to announce TWO new stories, "Happy Birthday" and "The Java Finch" featured in Stringybark Stories latest anthology, "From Eternity to Here."
It's going on my brag shelf.

Juniper (bonsai)

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New kicks. Who dis?
Sunday Morning service on the drums and wearing my new merch.
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Some parts of this piece I do not like. When I first started it, I thought i had botched it beyond redepmtion but it came good relatively well (except for the parts I see)

We Have Walked Stoically Through Storms
Felt pen on A5

wet feet, wet underwear
days of unrelenting rain
evenings of hushed mist
sheltering under boughs of promise

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I took the photo in Dorrigo during the holidays. I was going to call this one "Australian Gothic" as "Memento Mori" is a travesty of a cliched title but it fitted the concept of this week's story.
I was going to play around with the fun of Australian Gothic but kept it more serious instead.

FICTION FRIDAY
Memento Mori
There’s a children’s amusement ride outside the café. It’s presence is unquestioned. It is ever present. The paint is flaking to reveal layers of previous representations. The coin slot is slightly rusted and still runs on twenty cent pieces...
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What an hour of PD feels like on the first day back of term.

I had me some merch made up - part the second
STICKERS for The Drum And Page.
My handmade logo is now on a STICKER!
Something I will add to art I sell/give away or books (when I have them organised) or simply for no reason at all.
Thanks to @stickerwarehouse.au for a bang up job and speedy delivery.