Two short films inspired by reading words.
Adapted from the book…
Same but different…
One foot cannot stand on two boats. ~ Chinese Proverb
Don't get out much anymore…
Thanks to Philipp at the Community Bookstore in Brooklyn for asking me to draw while he read a few chapters from The Peterkin Papers by Lucretia P. Hale. Telling stories can’t be stopped even by a pandemic, it would seem. This was via Instagram Live, which is the mode du jour for those indoors. The internet is quite amazing. The Peterkins would have benefited immensely from it.
I don’t remember drawing that…
Sometime after 2008.
Ally Capellino interview…
Ally Capellino recently interviewed me with some very nosey questions about what I carry in one of their satchels. You can read about it here.
Photo by Coralie Bickford-Smith
They sent me a black Jeremy satchel, which is perfect when I’m on my bicycle.
Instagram Live Drawing Event for The Community Bookstore, Brooklyn…
I’m doing a live drawing event for the Community Bookstore, Brooklyn, NY on May 5th at about 3pm EST.
Philipp from the shop will be reading from The Peterkin Papers, by Lucretia P. Hale, and I’ll be drawing whatever I feel like. What do you do? You can listen with your eyes closed, or watch with your ears shut, or watch and listen, or watch and listen and draw your own pictures too. It’s all very simple.
The Peterkin Papers was written in 1880 and is weird and funny and silly. There are a lot of archaic words which you may find interesting, and will have you reaching for the dictionary.
How to join us:
Log into Instagram, click on the @communitybookstore live feed at around 3pm EST (8pm GMT).
As smoke leaves in the air …
I have been working on a short film on the history of smoke. Walter Ralegh plays a part of course, as does the HMS Titanic and the Industrial Revolution. Stay tuned.
Such a stupid git.
Window dressing…
People will chalk. Studio window, May 2020.
Good light for proofs…
New proofs need decent light. Lauren Child’s new edition of Astrid Lindgren’s Pippi Longstocking on my table. Tomorrow: cloudy with chance of showery spells.
Published 2020, Oxford University Press
Mrs Dalloway Clothbound Classic…
This cloth and foil edition for Penguin Press is in production (I think). I did a version of this cover design for the Penguin English Library and revised it for this. The series designer is Coralie Bickford-Smith.
A Woolf in linen clothing.
