Fisherman
The Miser's Son
Developing character ideas in my sketchbook.
Here’s another of the illustrations I’ve been working on in my sketchbook…
House in The Woods, dusk...
and here’s the painting of Molly Whuppie, now with ink lines added…
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.
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…
Sketchbook painting of Molly Whuppie
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…
Romeo
Let me know what you think?
Had a lovely surprise today… got this message from Milliande of the Milliande Art Community about this collage:
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.
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…
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!)…
The binding is chain stitched and it makes for a decorative but flexible ‘spine’.
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: 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:
Three of a series of collages inspired by the photos I took last year… (more to follow).
Distressed photos, emulsion. gesso. ink, relief printing, found text, transfer lettering, dry colour, scraffito.
Transcript of Leah Grace’s Opening Speech from Uta’s exhibition here. It’s a very sensitive and thoughtful review.
