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Not sure if this is exactly the right place, but I noticed my local (Bristol) TK Maxx has a load of Folk stuff in for pretty cheap (£35 for £170rrp). Thought there might be similar stuff in other branches and that some on here might be interested.

Yeah I had a little stash at my parents house for a while, until they gave it all to charity shops without telling me!

Same with RPG rulebooks. Had a couple of big-ish money 1st editions :-/

I'm currently hyping this album to anyone who'll listen to me. My good friend Stu has released his first solo LP - if you're an ambient/drone fan, then its well worth a listen

https://waxingcrescentrecords.bandcamp.com/album/mistook-play-for-play

Cheers, I really enjoyed that. Made me want to go out and wall-ride stuff!

I did actually try this. I’d actually never used an aeropress that way before (apart from maybe a million years ago when I first got one?). It wasn’t great, if I’m honest! But the beans were just so bad, nothing I tried could escape that.

Cheers all, I made one with a shorter brew time which did help a little. Will try cooler water next.
I can’t stand sugar in coffee, but milk helps.

Quick tips needed:

I’m staying somewhere - I have access to an aeropress, a grinder, but only really bad beans. I think they’re sainsburys. They’re dark, shiny, and bitter. I won’t get a chance to find some decent beans, so how can I get a decent drinkable cup out of these things?

I had a (very rare) weekend away with a couple of mates. Went to the coast and all took our boards. Decided to hit up Seaton skatepark on Saturday morning and were rewarded with a sunny morning and empty skatepark for the 3 hours we were there!

Really fun park (it’s a Maverick build, which tend to be fairly reliably decent).
Lyme Regis park on Sunday morning was fun too, though My legs were letting me know about it by then.

thanks for the kind words!

@moocher some nice textures there. Gah.... making me want to get my screen down even more!

Give me a shout if you want these (got someone else waiting in the Official Dibs Queue)

Excuse the crazy angle - reflections!
It was based on The 39 Steps.

You said earlier you thought it was 'cheating' doing these composite pictures (I disagree, for the record!) - do you draw/paint, and have you done much printing using original images yet? You've certainly got the technical chops to make some pretty spectacular prints, I'd say.

It's time mainly for me. 2 young kids and a dog plus trying to cycle and skateboard as much as I can fit in, leaves me without the sort of time to be able to spend a day doing prints. That's what I love about using an iPad - its so immediate and I can be pretty opportunistic about it and get some drawing done wherever and whenever I find myself with a bit of time.

I'm currently looking longingly at one of the last screen prints I did, which is framed in my office :-/

The gold is insane - that’s come out so well. It looks embossed.

I wish I had the time/space to screen print. I’ve got a DIY set up in my loft that I’ve not used for 10 years. I’m jealous of my younger self, who had access to screen, litho, etc printing facilities at uni and don’t take advantage of it!

Here’s another one of my treehouse things

The Timelapse for this was about 80% me faffing around with shading the tree, then deleting it all and doing it how it ended up + the houses in about half an hour :-D

I'm not very adventurous with brushes to be honest - with Photoshop or Procreate. I have a certain way I like to work which uses about 3 different brush styles. I've found procreate so much more 'realistic' to use in terms of pen feel and just the overall experience, but I also find the brushes slightly clunky compared to Photoshop. PS just gives you so much more control over the brush characteristics and you get the sense of a higher level of finesse perhaps?

There seem to be a lot of good watercolour brushes. I bought 2 different brush packs - although I actually tend to use default brushes (with very slight tweaks made to them) more often than not.

I've seen some really effective pen and ink / watercolour style illustrations done in procreate -have a play with one if you get the chance!

Having done some process screen printing (to a much, much more rudimentary level!), I can appreciate how difficult to produce that would have been! I love the way the paintings have come out. So was it something like CMYK + 5 spot colours? Does that include the gold, or was that done as a separate process?

Cool - drop me a PM

Forks

Adding a couple more bits

I’ve been doing a lot of drawing in procreate recently (since getting a fancy iPad Pro and apple pencil) and have been really enjoying how much easier it is to just pick up and draw compared to using my desktop Mac + cintiq. I’ve also been enjoying watching the Timelapses. Makes me realise how indecisive I am and also how little I plan stuff, tending to just make details up as I go.

I’m biased, but I love this bike!

Love Tom Penny, but I’m not sure I’ll ever be able to rekindle my fondness for phat skate shoes :-D

Yeah go on then, I’ll take the Thomson if you don’t mind posting. Will pm when I’ve had a quick game of Dobble with the kids😁

Might have repped Noods on here before. My mate has a great monthly old school rap show - last one is here

Listen live to noods here

Our Binstigator has out their bins out today. Even I knew there was no bin collections today. Feel like I’ve lost faith in them now…