More Sketchbook Story Characters

2009 November 29
Mixed media illustration: Fisherman

Fisherman

Mixed media illustration of story character: The Miser's Son

The Miser's Son

 Developing character ideas in my sketchbook.

House in the Woods~ sketchbook

2009 November 27

Here’s another of the illustrations I’ve been working on in my sketchbook…

Paint and ink illustration of House In The Woods

House in The Woods, dusk...

 and here’s the painting of Molly Whuppie, now with ink lines added…

paint and ink illustration of Molly Whuppie

Molly Whuppie, now with ink lines.

 …makes a difference doesn’t it? I’ve always loved ink and wash illustrations, I’m still adapting the techniques for acrylics and to use it on both paper and fabric, so I’m still finding my way with it. I’m pleased with the house in the woods illustration, that’s the latest and it came together without too much trouble.

Once upon a time…

2009 November 27

Fingers: Working up some illustrations from tales and stories in my sketchbook. Just the ground work before starting them in textiles for the next exhibition. They won’t be to everyone’s taste, I understand that.  I enjoy building the images with layers and stylising the faces. So here’s two of the first sketchbook versions, they’ll change as I rework them of course…

Mixed media sketchbook illustration, Story character.

Sketchbook painting of Molly Whuppie

Sketchbook illustration of character from a story

Sketchbook illustration of a giant

 Remember the Shakespeare series of illustrations? Well, I’m thinking of developing the new story illustrations along similar lines…I’m planning on adding text, a short pithy summary of each story alongside the image… The Shakespeare series was pretty successful, it particularly went down well at the Nantwich exhibition, selling 5 out of the 8 on show there. Flashback image for reference…

Illustration of Romeo, mixed media textiles. Private collection.

Romeo

  Let me know what you think?

Blowing my own trumpet…

2009 November 23

Had a lovely surprise today… got this message from Milliande of the Milliande Art Community about this collage:

Collage, mixed media.

Question Of Escape

I enjoy the composition and soft hidden emotional feel this pioece has for me, thanks for sharing, chosen as featured artwork of the day ♥ milliande

Want to see Milliande’s video tutorial that inspired this series? Take a look here.

 

 

 

Stories and Stones…

2009 November 22

Just completed a two day storytelling workshop run by Honor Giles and Helen Stewart of Word Of Mouth. It was absolutely grand! Such a lovely group of people and a superb mix of stories told about:

  • snakes
  • a clever fool
  • a teacher-eater
  • children lost in the woods
  • Solomon
  • a talking donkey
  • words of advice
  • a sheep-headed girl
  • a child-eater
  • a Scottish ghost
  • a lost car
  • and a giant.

You had to be there!

And here’s more collages…
B Return1 BLOG

B Lonely1 BLOG

B Still1 BLOG

Mad World…

2009 November 20
by julie
Dir Michel Gondry & Lauri Faggioni

Making a book…

2009 November 20

I’m making a new book for Ten Plus Textiles’ exhibitions… we have the books on a table display at each exhibition and they’re filled with samples of members’ work.  Visitors are invited to touch and explore the samples and they make for a colourful collection in their own right.

Here’s a glimpse of one of the older ones, (getting a bit tatty now!)…

BLOG_Coptic_spine

The binding is chain stitched and it makes for a decorative but flexible ‘spine’.

BLOGmGandy_page

One of Mabel Gandy’s pages.

The new book  is in process. Boards laminated, covers and pages painted, boards covered and samples are being collected. I’ve dyed some strong cotton thread for the binding, but I’ve yet to prepare the decorative support strips for the pages, which I glue to the side of the page that will be bound into the spine. A job for this afternoon methinks!

Open Exhibition…

2009 November 19

Open Exhibition: The Waterside its biennial Open next year, details can be found here.

Eyes: Found these old photos of some autumnal, Goldsworthy-inspired, leaf weaving my daughter and I did a few years ago.

 Here’s a detail:

Stone Collages

2009 November 18

Three of a series of collages inspired by the photos I took last year… (more to follow).All the tough stops 1 BLOG

Escape question of 1 BLOG

Calling for balance 1 BLOG

Distressed photos, emulsion. gesso. ink,  relief printing, found text, transfer lettering, dry colour, scraffito.

Review of Uta’s latest exhibition…

2009 November 18
by julie

Transcript of Leah Grace’s Opening Speech from Uta’s exhibition here. It’s a very sensitive and thoughtful review.