Born on this day in 1872, Aubrey Vincent Beardsley, an English illustrator is a somewhat controversial character. His drawing style using black ink was heavily influenced by japanese woodcuts from artists such as the famous Katsushika Hokusai. But his focus on the grotesque and erotic made him a bit of guilty pleasure. The BBC recently released a documentary on iPlayer which is available here – http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02t77gl. … Continue reading Aubrey Beardsley
whilst I’m on a run with card making I thought this was quite a sweet and simple design for a greetings card made with a few bits of coloured card Continue reading Wizard of Oz Greetings Card
I’ve always fancied trying my hand at calligraphy, although not sure I’d have the patience or the natural talent, but this week’s Cass blog really caught my attention. They’re promoting a new book by designer and calligrapher Rebecca Cahill – its promoted as a “new guide to calligraphy. Learn how to become a master of modern letter forms and inject some personality into your penmanship, … Continue reading For Lovers of Stationery and Writing
Following on from my doodle of St. James Park I thought I’d do a quick painting of a home game Continue reading Football Crazy
I didn’t get round to creating the friendly lion but managed the other characters I even managed to create a flying monkey Continue reading Some Oz Rag Tags
Following on from yesterday’s film inspired doodle. On this day in 1995 Usual Suspects was released in the US. The film first aired at Sundance on the 25th January but went on general release in August. As the poster for the movie is so icon I thought I’d use it as some inspiration for today’s doodles which I completed last night…. Continue reading Daily Doodle: Usual Suspects
On this day in 1939 the Wizard of Oz movie was premiered at Grauman’s Chinese Theatre. One of my childhood favourites this film always reminders me of cold winter nights on the run up to Christmas so I thought I’d doodle an Oz doodle Continue reading Daily Doodle: Wizard of Oz
I was so impressed by the artwork at the Festival of Quilts I thought I’d share a few more photos. The work really challenged my view of quilting and was really inspiring – definitely a date for the diary next August. The texture on these was so good I had to take a close up photo These were small canvas like pictures created in thread … Continue reading Festival of Quilts
Having dug out my Larkin books I couldn’t resist sharing another poem from Whitsun Weddings….. As Bad as a Mile Watching the shied core Striking the basket, skidding across the floor, Shows less and less of luck, and more and more Of failure spreading back up the arm Earlier and earlier, the unraised hand calm, The apple unbitten in the palm Philip Larkin Continue reading Another Poem
As its the start of 18/19 season today and we’re back in the Premiership seems only right to have a doodle of St James’ Park Continue reading Daily Doodle
