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Jimmy @jackabilly.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

I put one of my old paintings through an AI filter. It doesn't look much different, but "make more photorealistic" instruction gives it a bit of disturbing edge.

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Jimmy @jackabilly.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Gouache, fibre pens. A scene in Chadderton, UK.

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Jimmy @jackabilly.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

I painted the dove in 1991, at the request of the then owner. I'm pleasantly surprised it's still there over 30 years later in the historic town of Stony Stratford.

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Jimmy @jackabilly.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

Heavens to Betsy, it's National Flower Day. Hurry hurry hurry all you people who lack the wit to send flowers when or why you want. It pisses me off when something nice you might have done, is taken out of your hands, and you are told what to do.

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Jimmy @jackabilly.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

Current edition of "Private Eye"

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Jimmy @jackabilly.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

I painted this a few decades ago....#marilynmonroe #marilyn

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Jimmy @jackabilly.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

This is the painting I was thinking of. Rousseau's "Sleeping Gypsy". Not as gory, but somewhat disturbing.

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Jimmy @jackabilly.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

Fats Domino, drawing I did in my teens that I used as a cover for his single "Be My Guest".

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Jimmy @jackabilly.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

Random pic. I can't remember where from

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Jimmy @jackabilly.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

Drawing challenge week 2. "Draw a scene from your favourite movie". I've seen "Battle of Britain" over a hundred times, but "American Graffiti", "Eraserhead" and "The Shining" were also contenders. My Spitfire has turned out a bit wonky.

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Jimmy @jackabilly.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

Someone bought me a "weekly drawing challenge" book for Xmas. The book gives a subject each week. Here's what I had for breakfast on 2nd January. The toast looks a bit dodgy.

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Jimmy @jackabilly.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

Gulls on the canal. Maybe. I can't be arsed submitting a picture perfect photograph. I am an artist darling🙂

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Jimmy @jackabilly.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

Saw "The Nutcracker" at Birmingham Hippodrome. Absolute magic♥️

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Jimmy @jackabilly.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

I am glad to leave this painting 👹

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Jimmy @jackabilly.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

I am struggling to make this presentable, with just a few hours to finish it

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Jimmy @jackabilly.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

"Private Eye" current edition, says it all

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Jimmy @jackabilly.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

The current copy of "Private Eye" addresses this hypocrisy.

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Jimmy @jackabilly.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

This painting has a life of its own. Straight from the unconscious.

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Jimmy @jackabilly.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

Sometimes, a painting takes on a life of its own. I don't know where this is going, and I am not keen on it tbh

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Jimmy @jackabilly.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

The genesis of a painting. Hopefully.

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Jimmy @jackabilly.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

She curls up in a ball on top of the smallest of spaces to sleep. Why she doesn't use the plush cat bed we bought her is a mystery. Silly Old Cat.

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Jimmy @jackabilly.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

A detail from a painting I did many years ago, inspired by Escher's work, and personal dream symbolism.

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Jimmy @jackabilly.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

This was a painting I decided to scrap. I have just found the image after trawling through all the saved ones I have, and frankly, I now regret ripping it up and putting it in the bin. It is odd how I view my art more critically when I am stuck in the process.

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Jimmy @jackabilly.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

I finally found an image of the finished work. The mural gave a lot of pleasure to people, so I was told. I loved the crossover between art and nursing.

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Jimmy @jackabilly.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

My solitaire board. There is a solution to it, but I can't remember it. And in any case, it would be boring if I could.

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Jimmy @jackabilly.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

A sketch for a mural that I did in the ITU waiting room at Milton Keynes General Hospital in 1990. I was a student RMN, and as well, an auxiliary nurse (bank) in the hospital. I was part of a team in ITU, and with an arts background wanted to something. Somewhere, I have pics of the finished work.

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Jimmy @jackabilly.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

A random photo. At first glance, it could be part of a bridge, but the arches in the spaces of the bridge are fenceposts, and the bridge is water. Such random things can influence my art process.

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Jimmy @jackabilly.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

If there is a miracle, and I can transform this image into a painting within the next few days, I shall be a happy rabbit

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Jimmy @jackabilly.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

Good as Gold. When she's asleep.

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Jimmy @jackabilly.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

I handed my overdue library books. Nearly 30 years after I borrowed them. I offered to pay the fine (£10 x 3) but the bemused librarian waived the fee. If procrastination was a superpower, I'd be up there with Spiderman and Wonder woman.

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Jimmy @jackabilly.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

Left over tiles from having our bathroom done a few years ago. I am convinced that the 12x12 squares could be the basis of a board game, a project I am working on.

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Jimmy @jackabilly.bsky.social · 19/07/2025

Jack-in-the-Green. Painted tin box.

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Jimmy @jackabilly.bsky.social · 19/07/2025

A page from one of my sketchbooks from the late 1970s, sort of toying with the idea of a tattoo with the horse shoe and black cat motifs, and the runic inscription.