Ford Madox Ford & Virginia Woolf |
Friday, September 29, 2017
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Friday, August 25, 2017
Inktober 2016 4: Hill, Williams & Welby
The great poet and critic Geoffrey Hill died during the summer of 2016. I've read his poetry with a mixture of awe, admiration and mystification since I was a teenager. A boy who was cleverer than me told me that Hill was 'very fine', so I bought a copy of his select poems. I still find odd phrases from his work have a way of popping up my brain from time to time. And, then, of course I drew pictures of him on a dinosaur. Now that he is amongst the immortals, I decided to upgrade his triceratops to a T. Rex. the king (queen?) of monsters.
Then my sister asked me why I had drawn a picture of Rowan Williams riding a dinosaur, so I had to make a drawing of Rowan Williams riding a dinosaur:
And, having drawn a Former Archbishop of Canterbury On A Dinosaur, it only felt right to draw the Current Archbishop of Canterbury On A Dinosaur:
Wednesday, August 23, 2017
Inktober 2016 3 - American Literature Since 1900
Last year I was teaching a course on modern American Literature during Inktober. So I made a series of drawings based on the writers my students were studying.
Zora Neale Hurston Wallace Stevens |
Tennessee Williams Allen Ginsberg |
Elizabeth Bishop Don Delillo |
Toni Morrison Lionel Shriver |
William Gibson |
Monday, August 21, 2017
Inktober 2016 2 - More animals
This second batch of images from last year's inktober is a direct consequence of asking my daughter for ideas for drawings. If you ask me for a flying rabbit, this is what you get:
And this is a dog on the moon:I just can't remember what this was. Better not to ask...
Saturday, August 19, 2017
Inktober 2016 1 - Mice in Space
I've neglected this blog for a while, which means that there's a backlog of images from last year's inktober.
This first batch consists of various animals dressed as astronauts. There are two reasons for this: firstly, my colleague Rob Maslen wrote a story about a mouse in space. Secondly, I asked my daughter for a list of suggestions of things to draw when I was stuck for ideas...
This final image is, in fact, the first animal astronaut picture I drew as a response to Rob's story....
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