I call him Cuthbert.

"Cuthbert" 8x6" art journal page © 2010 Klair Scattergood

It’s rare that anything survives my desk for any length of time. I’m known for swiping my collage saves pile into the recycling bin without sifting through first so I can start again. This little chap first surfaced in a Sainsbury’s magazine back in the summer. I though he was cute and I put him to one side. Every now and then he’ll turn up again and I’ll put him to one side. The other day I was working in my journal, moved a pot of gesso and there has was. Persistence like that should be rewarded, so he now has a place on my Jan 9th page.

The writing was an accident but I like it. I wanted to try a new 2B charcoal pencil to see if it smudged on my watercolour paper. Turns out, Cold pressed NOT paper (which has a heavy grain) plus charcoal pencil equals the pencil gets stuck in the grooves and makes your handwriting all Sabrina Ward-Harrison-esque. Who knew?