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26 JANUARY: Chemistry sets and coffee machines

26/1/2020

 
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I am a shape collector! Monday's was a template of chemistry flasks, and Tuesday's came out resembling a coffee machine.
This week's six, and six great things this week …

1  We had chatty cocktail hours every evening with our dear friend, visiting from Germany…
2  … and he gave me his old iPhone! A coveted tool - I’m using it just for the camera, which is excellent
3 Got laundry dried outside on the washing line two days in a row, so satisfying to be out in the fresh air
4 The new moon passed without drama this week. I love the fact it is a daytime moon when it is in its new phase - still there in the sky looking at us, we just can’t see it
5 Burns night: we had haggis recently, so we chose sausages this year to go with our neeps and tatties, and it was delicious. One of my favourite lines in the world is from his poem Sweet Afton: “Ye wild whistling blackbirds in yon thorny den”, so evocative
6 After Burns night the days really start lengthening:
Sunrise 8:20am, Sunset 4:32pm
compared to the darkest days just after the winter solstice:
Sunrise 8.45, Sunset 4:42pm
- a whole 35 minutes extra daylight, getting more and more every day

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19 JANUARY: Painterly templates

19/1/2020

 
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This week's 6 template drawings using my Dad's old templates, and 6 great things about this week:

1. My lovely bestie flew in from Germany, we have had some great chatty drinks in the evenings. He's not getting any shorter, he seems to be about 6ft 7 these days! (I could be the shrinking one, of course).
2. Back to Binky illustration work on an ongoing project which I am determined to have finished by Easter at the latest. It's a children's book which is top secret until it has been released.
3. The sun is now rising earlier every day - easier to get out of bed!
4. Working page layouts in BookWright, I love that kind of work. It brings out the old graphic designer in me.
5. Stunning frosty mornings with bright sunshine.
6. I am really enjoying collecting templates in my diary, discovering invisible forms. 

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12 JANUARY: Found objects can be templates, too

12/1/2020

 
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The second week of collecting shapes from my Dad's old templates and found objects. The templates I used on each date were:

6th: Miniature model car kit
7th: Two nautical templates hand cut by my Dad. The red outlines are chain links, the green shapes I’m not so sure - I think they were guides for drawing specific curved objects related to boats
8th: Miniature model car kit
9th: Template as 7
10th: Chain links, template used like a stencil
11th & 12th: Stencil types again: chain links and model car kit.

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5 JANUARY: Playgrounds, and a diary of templates

5/1/2020

 
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Happy New Year indeed - it seems so futuristic to be living in 2020, yet here we are, and it is the present! I started a new diary in which I am collecting shapes from a variety of my Dad's old architectural and naval drawing templates, plus found objects such as packaging materials which reveal interesting forms.
7 great things from the first week of the year ...

1. Brilliant winter sunshine glittering on frosted cars. The whole street looked like a gigantic decorated cake.
2. The poetry of old deserted children’s playgrounds. Children don't play in this old playground any more since a very smart new one was constructed in the park (the new one probably has more safety features!)
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3. Thick frost making the recycling bank look as though it was made of white fur. Not quite as sexy, but reminiscent of Méret Oppenheim’s furry coffee cup and spoon Object (Le Déjeuner en fourrure), 1936.
4. The days are already getting longer: still waiting for earlier sunrises, but today the sun sets 15 minutes later than on the winter solstice.
5. Looking after the neighbour’s cat over the holidays. She is just so cute!
6. A brand new diary. The thrill of all those pristine blank pages, full of expectation and promise. I’m using this year’s to find an interesting shape a day.
7. Washi tapes! So much fun, I bought a pack of 24 different designs from Amazon and tried them all out in my diary. I did quite a lot of work based on them over on The Weekly at Binky McKee.

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    As well as the work you see here, I illustrate under the name of Binky McKee (my mother's maiden name was McKee, Binky was every single one of my great grandmother's many cats!)
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