Spike Deane. Artist​

This month's background wallpapers come from an illustration I created for Folk Tale Week, which was an art challenge I took part in last month. The prompt was CROWN. Somewhat stumped, as a crown does not well sit upon a seals head I turned to the stars. Yes there is a...

This month's background wallpapers come from an illustration I created for Folk Tale Week. I've spent many hours trying to capture some sense of the northern lights and thanks to 2 watercolour demonstrations by Peter Wooley on the milky way and the northern lights  I t...

This image was one of those that  wanted to come together. It is a collage of a Selkie paper puppet I made in May and some paper I printed last week (surplus from a giant bar chart required by the in-house critic).

The layering effects are made in photoshop, with the s...

It is Spring here in Canberra, the first Jonquils in my garden have bloomed and hopefully the rest of the bulbs are on their way. 

This wallpaper background has been through many many iterations, with the same pieces being reworked and reworked. Happily (at last) I have...

The desk top & mobile wall paper background I created for my Patron's for August 2019 is a digital collage of a print and a selection of seperate sketches. 

I'm not sure what was going through my mind when I created this but I do wonder where that rabbit is off to?

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We are midway through Autumn here in Canberra. The Pinoak outside our house has lost almost all of its flame coloured leaves and someone close by in our neighbourhood has a wood-fire, which smells wonderful in the evenings.

Last night was Samhain (Halloween) if you fol...

The March wallpaper background I created for my Patrons is a digital collage of a mono print I made on Wednesday night, an image of all the paper flowers I have been making for a stop motion animation and one of the paper puppets I created for the same animation.

Even t...

This month's desktop wallpaper is made up from a nature print I made last month and a scanned sketch. The nature print foliage is from a tree that I walk by to and from the bus stop. Since I have started that technique I'm always looking out for interesting shaped leav...