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've been having a bit of fun with mono printing lately. The weather has been atrocious so why not!
Starting with a couple of the cars sketched at the Ellerslie Concours earlier this year. They're sketched sitting directly in front of the headlight, usually while sitting on the ground — the perfect angle to replicate a feeling of speed.
The finished articles are a bit of a 'spot the difference' exercise, the hardest part being picking which one is the water colour painted original and which have been coloured digitally. As this is the Monte Carlo rally replica Mini Cooper 977ARX I've put it in context with some bleak snow and grit.
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