Yesterday’s work, when I look at what I did, shows I was clearly not in my right mind. Okay, so this interests me. This exercise is doing precisely what I wanted it to do: my drawing is direct evidence on whether or not I’m seeing something correctly, which is to say am I seeing what … Continue reading Day 10 – Cosmic Klee
Day 9/100 of #100daysofemdash. This is the cover of a children’s book, The Kitchen from the book Inside The Rainbow. Feel very unwell today, so just a super quick composition study before crawling back to bed. Just shows that even when you’re under the weather it’s still possible to learn something. Interestingly, I didn’t copy … Continue reading Day 9 -Azerbajani Kitchen
This was for a trial for a collaborative project at The Cass. Posting it for Day 8/100 for my #100daysofemdash. Continue reading P is for…
Day 4 of #100daysofemdash is a study of another one of my favourite paintings which again is, in my mind, also about typography. This picture is Meem One (1967) by Anwar Jalal Shemza, an artist I discovered at an exhibition at the Tate last year and have had an ongoing obsession with ever since. Shemza … Continue reading Day 4 – Meem One
Day 3 of my #100daysofemdash, which you can follow if you’re REALLY INTERESTED on Instagram and Twitter (please follow me, I have so few friends on these accounts it makes me feel socially inadequate to only get likes from commercial companies and SEO consultants). Today was a composition study of Jonny Hannah’s Mermaid Cafe. So, … Continue reading Day 3 – Mermaid Cafe
Second day of the #100dayproject. I’m trying to improve my seeing skills, which is really thinking about composition structure. I adore Paul Klee and have been reading his diaries for that past several months (it’s not the easiest of reads). Today I decided to examine the composition of a sketch Klee made during WWI called … Continue reading Day 2 – Klee’s Departure
