I hate to say I told you so but...

Yep two posts in one day is a dramatic return to form for little old me and I am feeling at the top of my game. Here is a little taster of what's to come...a little sketch I did last week and a water colour I did forever ago and should be the start of many new art works this summer. Next is a gigantic iconic 4 Square Man on polystyrene!  I can do commissions too.

A proper excuse!

Howdy everyone!

A million apologies for the lack of Bloggage over the past few months. A hectic marathon, end of school year, school camp, school films, football training and football game schedule have just about run me to the ends of my limits. However, I survived and am back onto the Blogamania,  and more importantly back to being a normal Daddy, whatever that is?

 Expect a much improved service from yours truly during the summer months!!!

Happy Mothers Day!

Most of this day was spent in recovery from the marathon but have you ever seen a more beautiful mother than this?

Supercalifragilisticexpialibabealicious! 

(I am biased though)

In the park

You will never believe it but the weather is now good enough to go to parks and enjoy outside as well. Sara, Cathy, Benji and I took a trip to Djurgården yesterday and went for a lovely walk and threw a frisbee round. Mind you later on it started raining but that's another story!

Little sis has arrived!

After a pretty torrid 10 days in Thailand, running from rabid dogs, going to full moon parties and shopping till she drops, Cathy has finally touched down in good old Sweden. True to form for Sweden, it has been cold and rainy ever since she arrived!!!

Happy Chappy?

Images like this have been few and far between for the Wilkinson Clan recently. Benjamin has had a cold for the past 3 weeks which has meant... a blocked nose; which sounds something like Darth Vader when he is sleeping, coughing and interrupted sleep; tired Mum and Dad, not much eating; back on the boob. All in all he is still a pretty happy chappy but after surviving his "3 day fever" this week with high fevers and a rash, we are hoping for the best and a return to the healthy, happy little Benji normally seen here.

Skater Boy!

Fruits of the forest

We have the great fortune of living next to an enormous forest which seemingly goes on forever. Our new apartment is on the edge of town and a 5 minute walk from home is this dense pine forest with trails galore and lakes a plenty. Now the sun is back, the three of us can finally enjoy the fruits of this forest, Yes! 

Blondini

His hair's growing too, look at this little blonde wave! If I didn't know better I'd be trying to surf that little sucker all the way into the beach.

The sun is out!

Hi everyone...well after what seemed like an endless dark winter, we officially have sun. Yep that's right! Benji and I had a photo taken just to commemorate the special occasion. In this photo you can see a very, very cute young man, and his son Benjamin basking in the morning sun at the kitchen table. After this photo was taken, Benji did a few Easter Egg spins, it's a break dance move I've taught him from the 80's.

Toe-fu?

Following in his father's footsteps, Benjamin has gone all vegetarian and decided to eat toefu. Admittedly he has to be quite flexible for this diet but as he insists on it, who are we to stand in his way?

Shadow boxing

After a good work out most shadowboxers like to lie on the floor and rest, and smile!
Shadow boxing is an exercise used in the training for combat sports, especially as its name implies, in boxing. It is used to mainly prepare the muscles before the person training engages in stronger physical activity.

In shadowboxing, only one person is required to participate, the participant throws punches at no one (jelly babies included) in particular.

Noll till Ett

Young Hoodlums

We have had all sorts of problems with Graffiti in our area. It seems as if every 2 days someone comes along with a spray can and tries to out do the last one with sloppy scribble that shows no artistic integrity at all. Random public doodling is all I would call it.  So on any given day there is a whole street emblazoned with unreadable orange spray paint down walls, doors, rubbish bins, power meters etc. 

I have every mind to send this guy out to deal with them. I am thinking maybe I should just print out this photo and stick it up as a deterrent...I mean doesn't he look tough?

A Certified Blogbuster!

Polar Ice

Bloogels from the Basement

A chilly breeze changed yesterday evening and with it came a sound so harrowing it made my tympanic membrane want to crawl further into my ear. I hesitantly ventured to the basement's basement. A place I have yet to go. I found remnants of a dark dungeon at the end of a crooked staircase. At the far end of the dungeon hiding behind the cupboard of gloom, I found a family of Bloogels.  I picked them all up and now I have them in a jar with plastic wrap over the top (with holes in so they can breathe). After further examination and research I have realised it is these Bloogels that have prevented you all from commenting on the blog. Now I have captured them, the blog is comment friendly. 

Go for it and comment away! 

The blog is all on ONE page now. Now you can watch all your favourite movies on one page! Also, on Macs you can hold down ctrl and scroll and the page will move closer, making movies full screen,  I think you can do this on PCs too, but I won't use them! 

Did I mention I wanted you to comment?

The Nipper

Recently I have been reading two very good books about skateboard art and the history of skate graphics. I decided to scan in my favourite ones from my own skateboard youth and play around with them. I had the idea for this one as the letters from the original 'Bones' logo (1984)called "The Ripper" were very similar to 'Ben's'. I have been teaching myself photoshop as another tool to add to my belt, and I think I am very slowly getting the hang of it. 

So, here it is. My first real photoshop project is now finished. It's called "The Nipper".

The Storyteller

Benjamin shows off his new vocabulary.

Tummy bound!

Benjamin looks like he's about to do a mean WWF pose down for the crowd! 

After winning the cage match and impressing the crowd, Benjamin relaxes at home on his sheepskin rug.

Record Breaker?

How much things change! We have been going through changes everyday it feels like and the wee man is growing, growing, growing. He continues to be the happiest boy in town and smiles and laughs his way through most days. As you may have seen from the latest film about the prophet "Benjamin", he can turn over and can spend, well minutes, on his tummy gazing up at the world. His arms are strong and he's all but ready to start doing push ups but only girls (very un-pc) ones as he can't get onto his feet yet. He is creeping his knees up ready to get into crawling position and any month now he will be crawling into the record books for some crawling activity.

I saw this week that the World record holder for the longest finger nails in the world was in a terrible car accident and had to have her nails removed. That has started me thinking...at the incredible rate Benji's nails grow, I reckon there's only about 10-15 years before he gets into the record books for that too! 

Watch this space, maybe you could e-nail me back?