This time, with a clear idea of what I want to achieve, I began with a simple line sketch of nasturtiums. It's an idea which began to take root (pun not intended) late last summer, when I photographed fascinating plant activity in some of the weirder areas of the garden - so much stranger and more intriguing than anything I could make up! Truth is stranger than fiction, so this sketch of nasturtiums is based on one of those photos.
As I worked directly on top of the plant-like elements I had inserted in last week's drawing, I was already replacing them with another idea for wild, manic plants twisting and pushing from fluted pots for the next one. I realised last week's didn't work because there were two different ideas going on in a small drawing: the plant elements were flat and cartoon-like, whereas the fluted forms bear the illusion of three dimensionality - basically, there were two styles of drawing not sitting well together.
This time, with a clear idea of what I want to achieve, I began with a simple line sketch of nasturtiums. It's an idea which began to take root (pun not intended) late last summer, when I photographed fascinating plant activity in some of the weirder areas of the garden - so much stranger and more intriguing than anything I could make up! Truth is stranger than fiction, so this sketch of nasturtiums is based on one of those photos. Comments are closed.
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Welcome to my work journal - a weekly update on drawings, work in progress, doodles and day-dreaming.
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As well as the work you see here, I illustrate under the name of Binky McKee (my mother's maiden name was McKee, Binky was every single one of my great grandmother's many cats!)
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Dissolving PeopleA symbol on the footpath outside a local primary school gradually disappearing as the image breaks up and wears away until eventually it is obliterated by leaves and barely discernible. Photographed at intervals of several months between February 2021 and November 2022, oldest at the top.
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