Yesterday with the help of a man, a van, and an assistant, my mix of art and non-art objects was moved from storage to the studio.

Once I’ve separated the art from non-art, my task is to select ten pieces to keep. The remaining works, provided I hold my nerve, will be included in an “Everything must go!” studio sale in about ten days.

Yup, I’m having a studio sale. Prices will be keen—the exact dates and times to follow.

Right now, I’m:

• getting ready to move to Dunedin in four weeks and wondering how to get everything done in such a short space of time.

• working out what to do with my art that is in storage – keep an eye on your email as there may be more soon!

• finishing a web design job.

• thinking about how to reposition what I do, how I do it, and the benefits I bring as a person who asks good questions.

• experimenting with using a Nokia 225 dumb phone rather than my smartphone.

• playing around with Tachyons CSS and Jekyll when I should be doing something else.

• starting a new notebook!

An alternative four-panel diary format, including spotting a little blue penguin in the harbour!

And while I’m using the word blue…

The blue pencil drawings are made using a “non-photo blue” pencil. Such pencils are notable because a photocopier does not reproduce the blue lines. Originally used for marking written copy with amends, cartoonists will use non-photo blue pencils to draw images before inking them.

Original drawings.

Above is the original, with the non-photo blue pencil, and below is the photocopied version. Not a sign of the blue pencil. Although not obvious here, the images below were reduced when photocopying to half the size of the originals.

Photocopied version.

And if you were wondering, scanners and digital cameras pick up the blue line, though it is relatively easy to edit in Photoshop.

Photoshopped version.

“Five days in the life of” comprises daily journal drawings, photocopied and scaled to fit together on one sheet of A4.

Sometimes, I have no idea where images come from.