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Working it Out

9/6/2015

I am spending a couple of days back in my notebooks. I know I want some kind of whipping form for the top left of Before There Were Saturdays, but not sure exactly what kind of line.

Update

5/6/2015

The water-line is in place, nice clear water above the silt of the swamp. Things are drifting and floating and emerging into the air.

I invent my forms as I go with my drawings. I have my 'rules', and the mark-making is largely responsible for the resulting form. I was quite happy inventing totally new ways to represent insects and beasties - then I saw these!

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I work a LOT in sketchbooks and always have several on the go. My dad was an architect and naval draughtsman, and after he died in 2017 I found heaps of old templates while clearing out his study. Always having been an avid collector of shapes, at the beginning of this year I bought a WHSmith A5 diary to use as a sketchbook specifically for work based on them.

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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!)
If you would like to visit my Binky website, please click the picture above.

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