Simon MacEwan

A stoneware cup with a chocolate brown angular octopus with an incised outline against a mint green background

Inside of a stoneware cup with a decoration of a shoal of little brown fish circling the cup wall

I decorated a cup

The real version may be some kind of proto-mammal, but the plastic version is definitely a dinosaur

Some of us grew up with entirely inaccurate representations in the form of luridly coloured injection-moulded plastic Dinosaurs with made in Hong Kong written on their bellies

It's always so difficult to get right, because so many times I try to adjust things and end up overworking it, and it just ends up looking kind of fussy and heavy.

I'm glad that it actually arrived, it's always stressful putting art in the mail

A watercolour painting of a red painted iron Bridge across a Gorge and a forested landscape there is a small green roofed station house on one side of the gorge

Thanks, I had three attempts at an earlier version that I just could not get to work, and then I did this one. Here is the earlier attempt

This is literally the reason I stopped taking things like cocaine, there's no outside of the system we're in and the many forms of violence with which we are complicit, but taking Coke was just directly funding torture, murder, sex trafficking etc, so I could be annoyingly hyper at a party for 10min

A photograph of the Copenhagen Lakes people are sitting under the chestnut trees in the sunshine

A painting of a tree trunk cross section with 40 rings the bark on the outside of the tree is covered in Moss and lichen

My birthday present to my sister finally arrived in NY and so did some kind of summery weather in Copenhagen

Hahahaha I wondered how that would be received

Thanks!

To be honest that does sound a little bit like burnout but also (at least in my own experience) the healthy way through that is what you're doing, which is finding ways to make art that are more fun and less stressful

Adidas slides are next

A watercolour painting of a red steel arched bridge over a cloud-filled Forest Gorge. a small Combi van like narrow gauge rail car is crossing the Bridge between the heavily forested areas on either side of the gorge

Cloud River Crossing

art nouveau illustration of Kriemhild looking crazed holding a big ass sword, surrounded by Japanese text

Japanese poster for 'Die Nibelungen: Kriemhild's Revenge' (1924)
dir: Fritz Lang 📽️

Gormenghast

I was just thinking about all the books on my parents shelves that I idly read as a child

Cool

Blaming media outlets for this moment is valid. I also know so many journalists of color who tried to bring things up, point things out, report with integrity, and change how communities of color are reported; only to be repeatedly discouraged, dismissed and reprimanded by white editors and managers

A red painted horned mask with a slightly goat-like appearance made from cardboard and fringed with mountain sheep faux fur

I had a very fun day helping friends make Pustovanje masks

Again: May they never know another peaceful moment in public.

A watercolour painting of a coastal cliff landscape with a railway viaduct along which are small yellow train carriage runs to a tiny station which sits below a large Art Deco style building perched on the cliff top

The local train to the mysterious clifftop Research Institute

• As the muscular demands of work decline, men are becoming physically weaker; one study of grip strength, a good marker of overall strength, shows a sharp decline among men. Meanwhile, and perhaps more surprisingly, women are getting physically stronger. In 1985, the average man in his early 30s could squeeze your hand with about 30 pounds more force than a similarly aged woman. Today, their grip strength is about the same.

Fun lil cocktail party fact from Richard Reeves'
"Of Boys And Men"

Thanks, I am feeling a bit (but not 100%) recovered now

They think they are Lend-lease but actually they are the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact

Haha thanks

A painting of a tiny station in a forest with huge Sequoia-esque trees. Sunlight illuminates the tree trunks and casts long shadows across the mossy forest floor.

A watercolour painting of a tiny station in a forest with huge Sequoia-esque trees. Sunlight illuminates the tree trunks and casts long shadows across the mossy forest floor. A detail photo with a pencil showing the small scale of the picture

Forest Station

watercolour painting of a square building, drawn in an isometric view, with yellow ochre coloured walls, The bottom level is surrounded by a grey stone arched colonnade and the two levels above it have large Square windows, the top of the building dissolves into a mass of Golden Cloud tinged with pink and purple. Through the windows and through the arches of the colonnade we can see that the building is filled with dense greenery.

The Cloud Factory

Thanks