Young designers today still love Marilyn Monroe with her iconic status and of course the series by Andy Warhol immortalised her for the art world. But I wonder how cutting edge that looks these days. If you have an iPad try taking photos on Photo Booth with the special effects. Will Fearon photographed Misty, our cat - top left, below. (Skip the next bit about what i did in Photoshop and scroll down to the photos if it's boring) Now that she was reduced to just four colour channels it made it … [Read more...]
Child Art
Child Art is wonderful, but we usually respond to it best when there has been some adult "engineering". This intervention is often no more than good art materials made accessible to the child and clever displaying. When an art teacher is hailed as being a brilliant teacher you'll usually find their displays and colours well thought out as well. And the children often draw from life - subjects like a real crayfish or a complex object like a typewriter. I gave Nicky (8) and Isabel (5) … [Read more...]
Gloria in Excelsis
I designed an angel card a few years ago for All Souls. Now that I'm with All Saints we needed a card in a hurry and so here is Gabriel, back again. (Angels should always look manly - not like fairies. Remember the brave Scots also wear skirts!) So how did I do it? Well, unless you are selling original artwork, there are no heroics for getting it all right in one go if the work is for reproduction - your time and the final outcome is what counts. So I did an angel in black on white and scanned … [Read more...]