It’s finished now. I could carry on tinkering with it, but I’m satisfied that it’s at a good stage where I can happily stop. It’s been a fascinating experience to do this project, full of technical challenges to get the colour onto the wall, transferring from sketchbook to something this scale, not dribbling ink everywhere and also bearing in mind that it’s a commission, so it’s only part what I want, part what I’m being paid to do. The guy whose wall I was painting on was very clear that the project was for me to be exploring what I would do with something this scale, so I knew I had to go with what I do and not to try too hard to re-shape myself in an attempt to please. I think the result looks and feels like it’s very clearly my own work.
There’s a lot of really interesting projects coming my way at the moment; I’m looking forward to having a stall at the MCM Comics Expo in a week or so at the Excel centre in East London, I’m drawing comics for a couple of musicians, which is a really interesting collaborative way of working and I’m really looking forward to see how that works out.
Before all that, though, tomorrow I have surgery on my arm to correct the trapped nerve that’s been causing me so many troubles over the last year. I really, really hope it works.
