I guess I must be feeling better, going by these drawings. For the past two weeks, Brendon has had a terrible cough and we’ve both had infected eyes.
Today’s drawing:
Yesterday’s drawing: More
For no reason at all
23 May 2010 6 Comments
in All my drawings Tags: collage, drawing
One of the worst things about being an adult is this constant feeling that whatever you do, must be for a reason. If you are not making money, you should be improving yourself, or helping somebody, or…
And its so difficult to just get lost in a drawing in the way I used to when I was a child. So I’ve been getting in some practice at doing things for no reason at all – and collage is just perfect for that.
I found some new magazines to snip apart – some about birds, and some about aeroplanes 🙂
Hacking at Magazines
20 May 2010 6 Comments
in All my drawings Tags: collage, drawing
I’ve been doing collage again – the none digital kind with scissors, glue and a pack of glossy magazines. I was inspired by a character from Jacqueline Wilson’s “Lola Rose” – a little girl who lives out her fantasy life by cutting bits out of magazines, birthday cards and stickers and constructing images from them.
Those images sounded so cool I had to try making one myself – quite crude, as it turned out:
I had to add a drawn background as the collaged version I tried first time round came out thoroughly depressing.
Urban Dryads
14 Apr 2010 Leave a comment
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I’ve been trying to draw moments from memory. The drawings below were inspired by two little girls who live in my neighbourhood. I saw them the other day standing in front of their home.
Both of them have very long hair, and they had a long ribbon sort of wrapped around themselves. More
Drawing Guilt
07 Mar 2010 4 Comments
in All my drawings Tags: drawing
So now that I’m self-employed, I should have more time for my own creative work, right? Ha ha ha ha. Um. Actually, I’ve been racing deadlines for the last month or more and not done ANY drawing. So to make myself feel a little better, I’ve been scanning some drawings that I did a while ago.
A pensive lady with a scarf:
This one has something to do with the idea of a phoenix being reborn: More
Steaming Heart
16 Nov 2009 1 Comment
This drawing reminds me of some of the scenes in Garth Nix’s Abhorsen trilogy – his characters always seem to steam in moments of stress:
Quilted Drawing
08 Nov 2009 Leave a comment
Here is another page from my sketchbook – and below are the patterns I generated from it.
Many, many patterns- it looks like a sort of drawing quilt: More
Wallpaper
07 Nov 2009 Leave a comment
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I’ve always been very drawn to the work of William Morris, and it shows a bit in this one:
Nurse – Guardian
02 Nov 2009 1 Comment
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This is another one of those drawings that seems to have a strong story behind it. I like the bird headed woman – she seems caring and fierce at the same time. But for some reason I’m perfectly sure that she is not the girl’s mother.
Drawing and Reading
01 Nov 2009 Leave a comment
in All my drawings, Inspiration Tags: drawing
A fairly recent drawing that did not go quite as planned:
I was able to generate quite a few patterns from this drawing. I’m fairly sure that these shapes are inspired by my reading of Kim Stanley Robinson’s Red Mars that I’d just finished, and Green Mars that I’m still reading. There is a lot of detail about mutating algae and other microscopic plants in the effort to terraform Mars.
In a previous post I quoted from Green Mars – Hiroko explains her understanding of pattern in nature. Here is a quote about different ways of understanding the world – the scientific, and the poetic: More
Dragon Girl
31 Oct 2009 4 Comments
in All my drawings, Inspiration Tags: drawing
From my sketchbook – an angry Dragon Girl:
I was able to generate quite a few patterns from this drawing. I’m still hopelessly addicted to making patterns. I’m reading Kim Stanley Robinson’s Green Mars at the moment, and I found this quote about patterns and life-force:
Drawing at the meeting
11 Oct 2009 Leave a comment
Here is another of my drawings done at the Field Indaba this week –
Bokkie at the Meeting
08 Oct 2009 Leave a comment
Another drawing that grew out of my long long two day meeting in Johannesburg. I’ve called it “Bokkie”. How do you translate that into English?
I must add that I was reading Charles de Lint’s “Memory and Dream” at the time. Not during the meeting unfortunately.
Bonewitch at the Field Indaba
07 Oct 2009 Leave a comment
in All my drawings, stories Tags: heart of glass
I had to attend a two day long meeting in Johannesburg this week.
I did quite a lot of drawings in between all the arguing, including this one of the Bonewitch from “Heart of Glass”.
She did not come out like I imagined her, so I will probably be drawing her again. Hopefully not at another meeting.
Insects and Birds
04 Oct 2009 3 Comments
Its been a while since I’ve posted any drawings, so here are two more:
I seem to be inspired by insects, birds and plants at the moment. Done while I had the flu, if I remember correctly. More
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