Some time ago I found an old wiro notebook in a drawer. A scruffy wiro bound notebook with a photo of 2 men in a kayak with a bear on the front cover. In that notebook I found terrible sketches drawn in pencil made while travelling in 1991. One sketch leapt out at me. It was a rough pencil sketch of Mt Ararat from a backpacking trip to eastern Turkey. The sketch really surprised me – it was a very basic pencil sketch, drawn using a .5mm technical pencil on a cheap notepad. The sketch is just black and white… To my surprise the sounds and smells of the day came flooding back. Meeting some Kurdish goat herders and their flock near the base of Mt Ararat, about 10km from the Iranian border on a bright sunny but cool, alpine day. Along with memories of driving across the mountain steppe in an old Renault 19 and the smells of chai and coffee in a Doğubayazıt pasta solunu. It all came back come flooding back! Why did it evoke such vivid memories? I’m not really sure to be honest. Maybe t...
I seem to be having an auto phase at the moment. Spotted this old Ford V8 in the parking garage at work and decided I'd draw it the following day. Except when I arrived the next day a motorbike was parked closely in front obscuring a lot of the front grill and all the bumper, so I've kind of made that bit up!
It's not until I started to draw it that I realised how sculptural the form actually is. This one seems to have been 'dropped', I'm sure they sat way higher originally, and some nice wire wheels to set it off.
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