A selection of sketches from three sketchbooks. Including some from the Vostok project and some from the Leda and the Swan project
Here’s a little gif to you to view all the ceramics I made for the Leda and the Swan project
Lots of drawings to scan in and show for the new year - and here’s one of them!
I say bird watching, more like your basic duck and pigeon.
Emma Gaston (the one who makes the lovely ceramics) and I (the one who draws on them) shall be selling our lovely pots and mugs at the Bust Christmas Craft Fair in Bethnal Green in London on the 27th November. Please do come along and say “Hi”. I will be selling my usual zines and prints and a few extra suprises too! - so come on down. More info here
Here’s one I made earlier this year that was displayed at the Girls Who Draw exhibition back in May:
Here are some quite terrible photographs of a horse series I am working on - these are A1 and A2. They are going to get bigger. Duncan wants me to draw 100, so far Ive drawn 4. They take a couple of hours each to make, as drawing the lines to create the texture of their coats takes such a long time. It’s nice to work on a bigger scale for a change.
I’m not sure why I’m drawing them, only that I started. I toyed with the idea of adding a rider, but came to the conclusion that it would make a different point. It would make us feel completely different towards the horse - viewing it as a pet, caged, restricted…I like the wildness in the drawings, the freedom of movement.
Perhaps I’m talking nonsense!! All I do know is that I’m enjoying the process.
Here’s the Mercury 7 Capsule vase I made with ceramicist Emma Gaston as part of the Vostok 5 exhibition. Emma made two vases, and I used the sgraffiti technique to draw into the vase - it feels good to touch! - you can actually feel the lines that were drawn. This one (pictured) is still available to buy.
Mercury 7 were the first group of men to train as astronauts. They were the first seven men to take part in the first human space flight program of the United States. It ran from 1959 through 1963 with the goal of putting a human in orbit around the Earth. However, Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin beat Mercury 7 Alan Shepherd to it, to become the first man in space.
The capsule pictured on the vase illustrates the lack of space the American astronauts had to guide their spacecraft into orbit. I like how alien the craft looks in comparison to the shuttles they use today.. or rather ‘used’, as Nasa launched their last shuttle back in July. And if you have a spare moment - check out the Mercury 7’s spacesuits, wonderfully silvery sci-fi
You can buy this and more at the Vostok 5 exhibition at the Outside World Gallery, Redchurch Street - only on for two more days! 11am- 8pm. Plus lots of other beautiful artwork from the likes of fellow crayonleg Duncan Barrett, Tight Fit contributer Paul Rains, Robert Rotifer and Darren Hayman. Come by and say hello!
