A Frail Series
The characters in this emerging series are perhaps the less abstract cousins of the ‘Mistakable Bodies’ series.
Mostly created in the same manner, with no prior vision, the pen reaching around on the page looking for shapes and finding familiar faces and shapes.
The words and the images sitting together to make a moment – a short story of an image.
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So Not So Sure
I have been finding more Mistakable Bodies emerging into my sketchbooks….
sometimes they’re born of a phrase…
Sometimes they’re silent….
But always growing, metamorphosing, emerging and dissolving.
Never static.
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well – it’s been a short while but i’ve made enough sketches that i thought i’d set them out them by theme for a change…
The largest collection is of Travel Portraits, mostly from the London Underground and Overground. So I’ll start with just a few of those. Trying a new – non-gallery format – let me know if you like it better !
I think this is my favourite TFL sketch so far.
It captures hundreds of identical moments I see watching people every day – the commuter all bundled up for winter and tucked into a sensationalist free paper whose headline blares absurdly from the crinkled front page.
The two guys from this page look like they’re from totally different centuries.
Imagined journey –
Lady on the late train back to Brockley from London Bridge, fellow on a train from Hove to London.
Newspaper headlines, brands and names of supermarkets on shopping bags are written all over public space, part of the markings of our world.
Sometimes they seem to make a visual point, I can’t always work out what it is, and don’t want to pin it down, but I like to include these things where they strike me as interesting or often, as amusing or absurd in some way.
A friend also sent me this excellent cartoon about drawing in public – it’s from New York.
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Some other posts coming up will be on exhibitions I’ve been to (Shiele/Turner)…
drawings of live music….
and a new series that has been emerging in this sketchbook…
Ellis 