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 joined Dreydon, author of Bruce wants to go faster, at the CRC Speedshow this weekend to sell copies of our book.
The weekend was a dry run for Dreydon who will be at the Goodwood Revival meeting in September. He'll have a stand selling copies of the book to what we hope will be an enthusiastic public. All I can say is — luck bugger!
Interest was excellent and a good number were sold on the weekend. It was great to meet some interesting people too. Thank you to those who stopped by for a look and a chat, and to those of you who walked past and didn't stop - I hope I managed to sketch you on your way past.
I managed to crank out this sketch in between sales, this time using the end pages of my Fabriano watercolour sketchbook. It's a beige-ish 'laid' stock which means it has a slight ribbed texture, a bit like old fashioned letterhead paper. It was a lot of fun to experiment with some white gouache to help pull some features out of the background creating an interesting sense of depth.
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