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...
An enjoyable few hours drawing old cars again after some months drawing old houses for the Past and Present exhibition currently on at Railway studios. There is always something of interest at The Galaxy of Cars.
I managed to grab a couple of rare specimens – a 1947 Allard L-type, a
1951 Bristol 401 and a 1909 Rover. (I also got a Riley 9 Lord March
special replica, but managed to ruin the sketch somehow - definitely a bit out of practice, and that was the first sketch of the day). I particularly enjoyed trying to suggest the volume of those big curvaceous front guards on the Allard and the reflective curves of the Bristol.
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