This recent piece of work is gift for a friend, a guy named Syd who has faced a ton of adversity in his life and still came out fighting. He’s battled cancer and fought back when he was told he wasn’t going to make it and to add to his troubles he was deserted by his wife when she didn’t want to deal with it all. Despite all this he is still going strong. He even wrote a book about his life experiences ( called The Death And Life Of Psycho Syd) and the story is a lesson in how life can go from up to down and back again in the blink of an eye. He lost his beloved staffie Alfie a few weeks back and because he was such a support to Syd after everything he’s been through he was understandably devastated. I wanted to give him a memorial of his best mate to treasure forever. He is drawn using soft pastels and pastel pencils on Clairefontaine Pastelmat
