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Fantastic weekend of projections for Illuminate Bath Me, Tim Vyner, Simon Deshon and Anthony Head plastered The Roman Baths with drawings and films.

A few pissed sketches from the Feds lunch at the best Provencale restaurant in the West country. Deshon responsible for the inevitable deterioration in subject matter.

Apparently some bloke bit another’s finger off over the perennial king/shepherd issue! A quick-fire 4 hour/5 illustrations for The Indy.

A new charity project to encourage kids to draw in Israel. Gymnasia Herzlia, the 1st Hebrew school in Tel Aviv [1905], sent 150 international artists one of their school exercise books to fill with drawings for an exhibition to tour schools. Below are a few of mine from an afternoon of inky madness.

Look out for the new CIA calendar, going to press now. Order yours here.

It only happens a couple of times a year – a drawing lunch – me, Grimwood, Cox and Baseman in the union fo ra six-hour lunch. We did do some work though, here’s a joint Welsh dragon drawn with beetroot and lambchop grease! Roll on the next one.

My characters from the Charlie Bighams packs have come alive on a video portal near you.

The latest live-art project curated by Unit9. Anrick Bregman and Alex Suchet briefed me to bring a bag of pens and fill those enormous windows – perfect.