My “A Pink Bicycle’s Nightmare” painting is not yet completed, but last Saturday I stood here in my bedroom holding a beer in one hand and in the other, well, nothing, staring at my dull, empty, orange walls.
So I took a sip of my beer and a thought hit me right in the head “This wall would look great with Clint Eastwood on it, giving a thumbs up.” Luckily, I already had a little sketch of that somewhere - well not just somewhere, I knew exactly where I put it - so without any further hesitation, I went at it.

And one thing lead to another, and all of a sudden I found myself working on getting Angelina Jolie on my wall as well, though it wasn’t as sudden as I make it out to be; I couldn’t get Clint’s face to stop looking like Sly Stallone and I wanted to move on to something else for a while.

The blood smudges on the Clint side will probably get painted over with something else, after 7 beers I thought it was a nice touch, a stroke of genius, but it’s not so much.

And then Jolie was giving me a hard time so last night I started on incorporating a lion in there. But why stop there? I will probably add more stuff as I go along.
It’s the first mural I’m doing and it’s also a first that I’m working on something on this scale. The pieces of paper hanging on either side are regular A4 format so that gives you an idea of how big the painting is so far.
Everything still needs tons of work and correcting, but I’m excited about it so I thought I’d share what I’ve been doing 8 hours a day for the past week.

Been working on this for the last 2 weeks and as the title implies it’s still a work in progress.
I’m having fun sticking stuff onto the painting, something I haven’t done before, but after completing my latest painting I realised it’s really fun to be playful with your art.
So, I took some of my rolling paper, crumpled or balled up and stuck it on (girl’s earrings + skirt, beheaded bear’s bloody stump, evil red bear’s foaming mouth - I’ll try to take some decent close-up pics of it once it’s finished.)

Anyway, on to the progression’s picture, just click it to enlarge.

The picture isn’t of great quality because I used the flash, but the final product will get a decent treatment in that respect.

Finally some Frankie news! The last 2 weeks it has been impossible to take a decent look at Frankie let alone a picture what with all his (or her) hiding, but since this weekend I’ve seen Frankie outside his hiding place near the nest, walking around on the balcony and I’ve seen him fly, though I have no photographic evidence of that. ALAS!
But I did snap some photos of Frankie today, sunbathing on the balcony ledge with his/her dad in the afternoon (click to enlarge):

And a little later this evening when I dropped in to say hello, Frankie was wandering near the balcony door but when he/she saw me he quickly flew onto the safe balcony ledge again (click to enlarge):

On a little separate note, if you see my name changing a couple of times; I’m trying to decide on a new one that fits. I had for the most part made my decision but someone made me doubt it, haha.