I’ve been invited to show my prints in The Bond’s lovely sunfilled cafe by the canal for two months - 25 Feb to 6 April. An excuse for you to discover hidden Digbeth! It’s about 100 metres down the canal from where I drew this pic of Warwick Bar. Email me if you’d like an invite to the PV
O yes and here’s a wee bit of tantalisingly gorgeous animation by Minkyu Lee
Here’s a nice excuse to go to the Foundling Museum (which have been meaning to visit for approx 12 years): Quentin Blake’s hospital murals are on show till 15 April, eg these lovely ones for a French maternity hospital. “The illustrations are a way of saying ‘it’s going to be alright in a minute’ says Blake.
Good interview about his mural work for hospitals, dealing with eating problems and old age: “I do believe art can help people but these are not, in some ghastly phrase, commissions to be therapeutic… The people in some of my drawings are simply in strange situations which they are more or less coping with…”
This video of David Hockney drawing on his iPad is worth watching just to see his grin at the end.
Big exhibition of his work at Royal Academy later this month. Ticket booked!
Stanisław Wyspiański (1869-1907): another wonderful discovery via June Nicholls. “Heartbreaking paintings” as she says. Want to visit Poland
And dear OB has given me an iPad for Christmas. Thrilled and delighted!
Rather preoccupied with art fair weekends and now a streaming cold, so this blog isn’t getting the TLC it deserves, but click here for something witty and delightful. I want to make a comic like this
Street art from dirt in Broadway Tunnel, San Fransisco by Moose Benjamin Curtis
And here’s a nice little video about creativity
I learnt to draw as a kid by getting old books like this (fascinating stuff here, screenshot page samples of out-of-print drawing books ) from the library. Eg Paul Hogarth’s Drawing Architecture, which I must get hold of again. A gem, makes you itch to go out and start drawing buildings.
Hung new prints in Urban Coffee Company this week. Grabbed chance to include Venice Beach and Proms pix. Very fond of both but they’re rather large so it’s great to have space to show them off in public. (Thank you Cath, Jenny, Katie(?), Jasmine, Richard and of course Peter, at UCC for your help!)
O and this weekend I start selling prints at the MAC for Christmas
