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Spike Gerrell @landofspike.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

Ripley from next door practising tightrope walking in the back garden #caturday #catsofinstagram #opticalillusion

Tabby cat laying down on brick patio with feet on a white and black rug, photographed from above giving the impression that it is standing on the edge of the rug

Spike Gerrell @landofspike.bsky.social · 19/07/2025

Biscuit couldn't get the lids off his stabilo pens last night so he made himself into a new art installation instead #caturday #catsofbluesky

Striped cat laying down with a group of stabilo pens arranged around his tail in a star shape

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Spike Gerrell @landofspike.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

First day of the new V&A storehouse Stratford. It's more than a bit good That's me in the blue #V&Astorehouse #V&A

V&A storehouse giant le Train Bleu ballet stage cloth. Picasso designed

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Spike Gerrell @landofspike.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

Freddie enjoying watching Springwatch this evening #springwatch

Cat sitting very close to TV screen watching the wildlife in Springwatch on the BBC

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Spike Gerrell @landofspike.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

I've been experimenting with making metal armatures, bunging lumps of air dry clay onto them then wrapping it all in modroc #sculpture

Plaster sculpture with internal metal armatures. Photographed against a clear summer sky. Sculpture's shape is organic and rough surfaced taking the form akin to a tall piece of coral

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Spike Gerrell @landofspike.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

I've been putting a few bends into some steel rods and brazing them into some standalone builds. This is one view of one of them #metalsculpture #sculpture

Steel rod bent into a complex structure and brazed into a wavy fluid sculpture

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Spike Gerrell @landofspike.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

A couple of days late for #nationalunicornday. Doesn't really matter though, I'm not expecting a visit from the Unicorn Enforcement Agency anytime soon #unicorn #illustratorsofbluesky

Rough marker pen drawing of 2 legged unicorn

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Spike Gerrell @landofspike.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

I restored and repainted the #weathervane from my parents' 1980s #allotment a couple of years ago. This winter's storms took it down but today it's mended and back up in the sun on the shed roof #continuity #family #gold #cockerel

Cockerel weathervane painted in gold and black complex pattern on top of a shed roof against a clear blue sky

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Spike Gerrell @landofspike.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

A bit of idle sketchbookery I thought I'd line the original sketchbook page in Affinity then bung a quick smidge of colour and texture behind it #sketchbook #pattern

Drawing of insect-like creatures in swirly organic plant fronds and tentacles

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Spike Gerrell @landofspike.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

Partial eclipse now, don't look directly at the sun! i) with pinhole in card ii) with welding goggles over lens, you can see the eclipsed sun shape mirrored below the actual sun #partialeclipse #solareclipse

Partial eclipse image using pinhole in card technique.

Partial eclipse image using welding goggles over lens

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Spike Gerrell @landofspike.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

It's tree pruning weekend which means we have fresh sticks. So this afternoon, as I'm currently reading Blood Meridian, I made this nihilistic wild westerner. I finished him just in time to take the snap as the sun went down #sculpture #wood #metal #cats #whiskers#caturday #cowboyhat

Wooden sculpture. Cat made out of a stick with tall cowboy hat and metal rod legs and tail. Copper wire whiskers

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Spike Gerrell @landofspike.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

Sadly, #animalalphabets ends this week Much of the joy of the twitter drawing challenges was their lovely supportive community. My thanks & best wishes to everyone who both had fun & made it fun. Thought this image is from Picture Book Characters was sorta topical #insaneOrangeMonarch

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Spike Gerrell @landofspike.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

Expanded the wishbone ring theme this weekend. Used much bigger 4x1.5mm D-shape silver wire this time so had to amend my process. Had enough supplies to make this stacked double ring combo #jewellery #silverring

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Spike Gerrell @landofspike.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

Rather enjoyed making this little silver wishbone ring at the weekend #jewellery

Silver wishbone ring photographed on a benchpeg

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Spike Gerrell @landofspike.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

New sculpture: 3.2mm brazed mild steel rod, cement base #sculpture #metalsculpture

Twisted wire sculpture. Brazed into upright curly shape

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Spike Gerrell @landofspike.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

This fellow was part of my degree show back in the Olden Days. Having spent quite a long while hibernating in a drawer, it's lovely to have him back up on the wall in the living room #illustratorsofbluesky #illustration

A red creature on a painty green background. Acrylics on paper in a sort of primitive stylee

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Spike Gerrell @landofspike.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

A new post-it note drawing: PNSQ_013-CN107 7.5 x 7.5mm It's a bit scruffy but I'm not making these often enough #postitnote #unipin #fineliner

Complex swirly pattern on blue post-it note

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Spike Gerrell @landofspike.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Biscuit's been behaving a bit suspiciously since he enrolled on that evening class course in undercover surveillance

Biscuit the cat peering round the side of a cabinet

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Spike Gerrell @landofspike.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

A bit of spot welding 4mm and 5mm steel rod 1mm steel sheet Height 36cm #sculpture #metalsculpture

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Spike Gerrell @landofspike.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

A ring I made at New Year. I'd been looking at Roman/Greek/Celtic jewellery and wanted it to have the feel of something from that era so I gave it a bit of hammer to give it a slightly irregular texture. The stone is a brazilian #tourmaline. #jewellery #jewellerystudent #silver #silverjewellery

Silver ring with Brazilian tourmaline stone

Silver ring before stone is fitted into bezel

Composite of nine photos showing process of making a silver ring with bezel and stone

Composite of six photos showing process of making a silver ring with bezel and stone

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Spike Gerrell @landofspike.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Scaling up a bit for a few weeks: rough offcuts of aluminium sheet and pop rivets. Stand is spot welded sheet steel #sculpture #aluminium

Sculpture using rough offcuts of aluminium sheet with pop rivets and sheet steel base

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Spike Gerrell @landofspike.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

Sorta pleased with how this image has become my new glasses case design. It's also easier to find than the old regular black case #glassescase

Custom made glasses case with unique surface pattern

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Spike Gerrell @landofspike.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

I hadn't balanced anything for a while so I collected together a few little things that were knocking around the house and piled them up on top of each other #rockbalancing #catswhiskers

A balanced stack of stones. Large one at the bottom and flat ones above it. A larger round stone balanced in the middle of the flat ones. On top of he balanced stone is a dried cranberry with 4 white cat whiskers sticking out of it to top off the balance. The photo is muted colours and darker tones. It's in an indoor setting

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Spike Gerrell @landofspike.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

Freddie and Biscuit wondering whether it's going to stop raining soon

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Spike Gerrell @landofspike.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

My top nine posts over on Instagram this past year are, for the first time in a while, mainly drawings #artvsartist #topnine #topnine2024

Collage of nine images, the most popular I posted on Instagram this year. 7 drawings/paintings, 1 piece of jewellery (a ring) and little one wire and resin Christmas tree sculpture

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Spike Gerrell @landofspike.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

This little fellow has just fledged and found his new forever home north of the border #makers #makersofbluesky

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Spike Gerrell @landofspike.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

The new cat in the back garden seems to know exactly how to pose properly for a photo #catsofbluesky #cats

Tortoiseshell cat sitting on post in garden looking back at the camera. Foreground wintry leafless bushes, background bright sunlit yellow-green folliage

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Spike Gerrell @landofspike.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

Clytemnestra running a bath for Agamemnon on his return from Troy: greek mythology advent day 15 #illo_advent #advent2024 #advent #adventcalendar #greekmythology #clytemnestra #agamemnon #troy #aeschylus

Clytemnestra running a bath for Agamemnon on his return from Troy. She wears 1980s Relax t-shirt, levi 501s and converse all-stars. He wears greek helmet and green padded countryside gilet, carries suitcase and toy donkey that he's brought back from abroad. The Furies hover above her. His boat is moored in the distance

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Spike Gerrell @landofspike.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

Freddie cosplaying that he's a hipster cat in a 1940s film noir #caturday #catsofbluesky

Black and white photo of Freddie the cat in strong black and white shades

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Spike Gerrell @landofspike.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

Day 10 of those advent mythology drawings Aphrodite's chariot was pulled by sparrows but, as this is an advent series, I've given her a festive robin instead #illo_advent #advent2024 #adventcalendar #advent #greekmythology #aphrodite #robin

Aphrodite riding in her chariot pulled by a giant festive robin rather than the traditional sparrows. She holds festive holly. The chariot is flying above the ocean. Three fish watch as she goes by

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Spike Gerrell @landofspike.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

Freddie contemplating the nature of existence. Or possibly not #cats #catsofbluesky #deepthought

Freddie the tuxedo cat sitting under a table in the back garden. It looks like he's deep in thought

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Spike Gerrell @landofspike.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

#illo_advent Day 7: We're now in the House of Atreus, and Thyestes is eating a meal, a succulent barbecue meal Days 3 to 6 seem to have got buried under a pile of other stuff but Day 7 continues our ancient Greece theme #advent #advent2024 #ancientgreece #thyestes

Thyestes is eating a meal. There's wine too.

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Spike Gerrell @landofspike.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Day 2: Meanwhile, back on Crete, the Minotaur is letting King Minos beat him at minigolf #illo_advent #advent #advent2024 #adventcalendar

The Minotaur is holding the minigolf flag for hole number two. He is letting King Minos (out of shot) beat him. King Minos's ball is heading for the hole. Advent image day 2

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Nora Surojegin 🌻 @hazytale.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

You never know what lurks under blue skies - I mean sea... #art #kraken

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Spike Gerrell @landofspike.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

I've not done any illustration challenges for years. Is #illo_advent still a thing? I saw Drew and Ian had posted lovely advent images so I thought I might give it a go. Here's Advent Day 01 #advent #advent2024

Flying creature has six feathers attached to its arms to serve as wings. It hovers above another creature wearing a balaclava helmet with holly on top. It is snowing. There's a house in the background

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Spike Gerrell @landofspike.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Taking the pet creature for an evening walk

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Spike Gerrell @landofspike.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

This is Biscuit. He's very friendly. He likes eating and sleeping

Close up photo of Biscuit the cat in the kitchen. He's tabby with white bits. Nice white whiskers

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Spike Gerrell @landofspike.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Yesterday's new copper wire sculpture CS-1007

Vertical copper wire sculpture. Several wavy copper wires soldered together to make a composite curvy sculpture

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