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I’ve no idea if it’s possible to smoothly plié in third. Maybe if you have fuel injection. I just like saying Royal Ballet School of Motoring.
Historical note: Yes, I realise that motor cars no longer look like this.
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Diary entry: Yesterday we saw the exhibition of Ice Age art at the British Museum (in London). It was, for me, astonishing. The exhibits are drawn from 40,000 years of human history, yet you can clearly see that the artists were as skilled and as insightful as any today. These people thought just the same way that we do, though their technology was less advanced.
If you can possibly get to London to visit the exhibition before it closes on 2nd June, then go! (Booking essential)
In the picture I’ve roughed out part of the Great Court (as seen from just above my much needed cup of coffee!) and overlaid my thumbnail sketches of some of the objects that caught my attention.
Of course this isn’t a comic, and it’s only funny in the “funny peculiar” sense where I’ve perpetrated the grosser inaccuracies. However, I’m posting because I went to a fabulous portrait drawing day on Saturday, organised by the Julia Kay Portrait Party (no relation) – an international group dedicated to drawing portraits of each other. Meanwhile I’ve added some more of my portraits to my flickr stream at http://www.flickr.com/photos/26954663@N03/.
STOP PRESS: I seem to be in the party, though I’m not yet a member. Tee Hee.
sorry not to have posted for a while. I’ve been coughing more or less continuously since the last post — it doesn’t help me to feel creative.
This comic is my first go at using my new home-made lightbox for inking.
I found a great big art book in a charity shop today — “German and Austrian Painting of the 15th-18th Centuries in the Hermitage.” Apart from the book title and the painting titles in English, the text is in Russian, which I can hardly even read, let alone understand. So I’ve had to interpret this one for myself. It’s “The Annunciation” by Anton Raffael Mengs.
The Hermitage looks like a magnificent place — it was the setting for the astonishing film Russian Ark (2002).
The words are the entirety of poem by e e cummings. I think they are complete in themselves, but nevertheless I’ve tried to add pictures with my own twist. Does it work?
Who said ‘autobiographical’ then?
