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28/06/2015

Comics and cartoons: Tax course

Financial management These are a few selected images from several that were produced for Poema, working with GIZ, which provides capacity for governments internationally. They included ‘situational cartoons’ or line drawings, using the Simple Style for the people, and the Fotomelt style for backgrounds. This combination was well received and has become our standby in the years since we first started collaborating on adult education. 2021: A recent update for the main featured image had more social distancing, and can be viewed in the gallery. Back to News/Views

09/06/2015

A loose technical drawing

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Loose organic lines in a technical drawing. What fun! Yes, really – every now and again one has something way out of the ordinary to tackle. As the client said, ‘It’s something a little more exciting for the technical drawing portfolio.’ I wholeheartedly agree. Back to News/Views

01/04/2015

Title-pages: Poetry

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Title pages for an English poetry book by Shuters: You may already have seen the post on English poetry, (also the featured project on News & Views) showing various poems illustrated in different styles. These are the title pages that announced a new section. There were six, and each section had a theme. These were brought out by collage to establish different moods. The gray stripe and title from the briefing document formed part of the preview to show the client how it would all fit. Back to News/Views

22/03/2015

Poetry Illustration

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Poetry illustration – words and pictures dancing a good dance Finding the images to go with a poem can be a very fine line to dance along. Images that come up are personal to everyone who reads the poem. And yet many things about any poem are universal. They tug at common heart-strings; the language is designed to distil a lot of feeling and meaning into very few words. Illustrating poetry is up there as the champagne of illustration, for me at any rate. How can one not feel honoured when asked to embellish someone else’s work of art? It’s intimidating, but – probably because I love poetry, that quells the fear. It can be very challenging to put into visual form what the poet has already put into a kind of word-image, so vividly are the images evoked, very often. These are a few selected poems from a recent job for Shuter & Shooter, Pietermaritzburg. Enjoy the poetry and […]

10/03/2015

Le Weekend: Art Deco illies for Le Weekend

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Le Weekend is a range of wines launched by Karen Turner and Bruce Jack. Initially, the brief was to rework the main figures in the imagery for the wine labels. Then the client requested five additional illustrations in a similar Art Deco style, for the Le Weekend Wines website. In their own words: ‘Swiss and French railway companies produced advertising posters, displayed on billboards and at railway stations, to persuade rich folk to travel to these destinations. ‘In 1936 France was one of the first countries in the world to pass a law making paid leave for workers compulsory, so they have been happily holidaying for decades. Interestingly, there is still no compulsory paid leave in the USA. ‘In Europe, the period between the First and Second World Wars was the Golden Age of Travel. Anyone who had money traveled in style to exotic and romantic destinations. France was high on the list with St Tropez and Chamonix newly established […]

08/02/2015

Digitised drawings online

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Selling digitised pencil drawings online – watch this space. The male nudes are way overdue to be put online, but the female faces have been there for a while. The male nudes are A2 prints. I find it gives pencil drawings a really interesting new dimension, to add colour and even geometric shapes to the original pencil drawings. These are some of nine original pencil drawings framed together as a composite piece, called Maiden | Mother | Crone.. Fortunately I had some of them scanned at the time, and could transmute them into new work. Some of the female portraits are currently available to order as prints on Society6 as high resolution A4 prints. Back to News/Views