Dave Fraser/Hatari Teenage Riot

Not in that colour, Jake!

Alas, I won't be at the pub tomorrow..

I apologise in advance to everyone at the next con I attend for the tee shirt I just bought.

Take the time to do this folks. The proposed changes to ILR are shocking and cruel, which is made abundantly clear in the text of the public consultation linked below. Please lend your voice to try to mitigate the cruelty.

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(trigger warning for slightly cartoonish violence in the video)

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Last year I started a Valentine’s themed series inspired by old vintage, romance comics. I had loads of fun doing them so have drawn a few more and decided to make it an annual thing. I’ll be posting the new ones, as well as some of last year’s, over the next couple of weeks.

That's the one bit of the story that annoys me - they just gave some random who owns the building planning permission, they didn't commission this dross, but you wouldn't get that from the headline.

a couple in wedding garb stand in front of a white tiled wall, vaguely reminiscent of Elastica's debut album cover. She has blue hair and glasses and a layered tuille dress with applique stars. He wears a three iece tartan outfit, with kilt, tweed jacket and waistcoat.

7 years ago today. Happy anniversary, @kariebookish.bsky.social

And this is how I find out that Amy Irving sung, not Kathleen Turner...

Hope Sandoval.

I will not be taking questions at this time because I'm going to listen to Fade Into You on repeat.

A painting by Norah Neilson Gray. Entitled Mother and child it shows a mother kissing a samll child she is holding in her arms. Painted in shades of grey on a yellow ground, it's a very graphical image.

20. Mother and child - Norah Neilson Gray

An oil painting by EA Hornel entitles the Brownie of Blednoch. It depicts a supernatural creature in a wild landscape, surounded by sheep. The scene is lit by a full moon. The brownie is humanoid, with very long, thin limbs; a shaggy coat and glowing white eyes. It has a beak of sorts and pointed ears.

19. The Brownie of Blednoch - E. A. Hornel.

A painting by Joan Eardley entitled "Salmon Nets and the Sea". It shows an impressionistic, almost abstract view of nets hanging out to dry on the shore from posts while a rough grey sea breaks on the shore. The sky is a deep petroleum blue and the sand a rust red. There is a sense of the force of the sea breaking on the shore.

18. Salmon Nets and the Sea by Joan Eardley.

Watercolour painting by Joseph Crawhall entitled Girl on a Bicycle. It shows a woman in a black skirt, a mutton leg sleeved rose blouse or jacet and a yellow straw hat with a black band. She is riding a push bike. Running alongside her is a daschund, ears flapping into the air and tail erect.

17. Girl on Bicycle, Joseph Crawhall.

A painting by Maria von Heider-Schweinitz. A young woman is depicted very simply and with jarring bright colours sitting facing the viewer. She is dressed, or perhaps wrapped in a bright red shawl. Her pallor is cold, described with yellow and green tones ad her eyes are dark. Her nape-length bob is catching the light from behind and to the right of her.

(Yes, I'm still doing this.)

16. Seated Figure with Red Cloth - Maria von Heider-Schweinitz

The Entombment of Christ - Rembrandt van Rijn

A painting by Piet Mondriaan. It is a predominately white painting with a square of red at the top left, blue at the bottom left and yellow at the bottom right. Each square is bordered by a thick black line which joins each square to the other.

14. Composition No. IV, with Red, Blue and Yellow - Piet Mondriaan.

A painting in oils by Francis Cadell. Entitled The Orange Blind, the picture shows a view from an opulently decorated house in the early 20th century. A woman sits in the foreground on a turquoise chaise longue with a silver tea service in front of her. She is pale, wering dark clothes including a wide-brimmed hat and what looks like a fur coat. A man sits with is back to her in the room beyond. He's working(?) at a desk. The room is dominated by a chandelier taking up half the space between the tall ceiling and the floor. Even more striking though, is the window blind which is a luminous orange, surrounded by the darkness of the walls around it.

13. The Orange Blind - Francis Cadell

Damn, forgot that part!

The ex-church in Glasgow on Great Western Road has become a pub, thetre and events space. When it reopened, Alasdair Gray was comissioned to produce art for several areas, including the old nave ceiling. A massive mural covering the whole of the ceiling is shown (in part) here. A dark blue represents the heavens with various motifs of Gray's work and stories from the bible depcited on this ground in vivid colours. A mix of the astronomical, astrological and religious.

12 Celestial Mural - Alasdair Gray

11. Saint Bride by John Duncan

Quote with a gif that depicts the energy you're going into 2026 with.

Many happy evenings dancing to Delaine's playlist in Triple kirrks as I recall! Happy new year, Andi.

No offense directed towards Jessie J, but honestly, there was no way in hell we were drinking heavily through another Hootenannay.

Large oil painting by Arthur Melville. It shows a chalk quarry from a starightforward perspective, but manages to make it seem like an abstract image. The overwheling tones are white and grey and it's only by looking closely that the shapes of industry become clear.

The Chalk Cutting - Arthur Melville

An abstract painting by Kazimir Malevich. The painting depicts red roughly geometric shapes on a white ground. They are arranged angled from the top right corner to bottom left (or the reverse).

9. Suprematist Painting: Eight Red Rectangles - Kazimir Malevich

An oil painted portrait of a woman wearing a white hat and a burgundy coat. The background almost looks floral and she's wearing a perhaps enamel necklace. Her face is pale with bright red lipstick and quite graphically painted.

8. Le Voile Persan - JD Fergusson

A thickly painted oil painting of a vase of irises. The background is a sunny yellow wall, contrasting with the delicate blues of the flowers. They are past their best, with several blooms wilting on the right hand side. They sit in a plain earthernware vase or jug with a handle.

7. Irises - Vincent van Gogh

A large, tall oil painting. A woman in a burgandy gown stands at the left, looking through a bronze door into a courtyard or street where men are constructing a tower from stone, which they are then cladding in panels of brass. She looks concerned or fearful and is both clutching her robes and almost moving away from the tower.

Danae (The Tower of Brass) - Edward Burne-Jones

A day late, for obvious reasons, so here's 5. Lady with an Ermine - Leonardo da Vinci.