Monday 22 October 2012

Tarporley Art Gallery


Some playful images I did for Tarporley Art Gallery's website.


Tarporley Art Gallery is a fine art and applied art exhibition centre that has recently opened in Cheshire, with a wonderful range of workshops on offer. I was commissioned to provide branding images and lettering, promoting their workshops and shop supplies, which was great fun. Here was a chance to have a badger frolicking through buttons, a packhorse carrying workshop supplies and a fox sniffing a thread trail. 






Monday 15 October 2012

Cornerhouse sketch-o-matic

I will be sitting in the sketch-o-matic box again this year for a couple of slots this wed 17th Oct (1-2pm) and this sun 21st Oct (1-2pm) at the Cornerhouse, doing 5 min sketches of sitters. It's like sitting in a photo-booth, but you get a sketch at the end. I'd love to sketch you if you can make it those times.

Also other artists and poets throughout the week Fri 12 Oct 2012 – Sun 21 Oct 2012
Here's some info from Cornerhouse
http://www.cornerhouse.org/david-shrigley/david-shrigley-events/sketch-o-matic#


"Following on from the huge success of the first Sketch-O-Matic last year, when 40+ artists, illustrators, poets, doodle-makers and pensmiths created instant-ish portraits of almost 1,000 sitters, we are happy to announce that the booth is coming back! It will launch for the Manchester Weekender on Fri 12 October for a 10 day residency. You are invited to sit inside the booth as if for a photograph and make a minimum donation of £1 to an artist through an anonymous slot in return for a self-portrait. But where the machinery should be is a tiny, fully equipped artist studio. Wait five minutes (give or take) and the image will appear. It may be a pencil drawing, doodle, cartoon, collage or even a word-poem. Take it, frame it, consider it. Now you are both patron and muse!"





Thursday 11 October 2012

Dancing on Chorlton Green

Mazazik  (www.mazazik.co.uk) Egyptian dancing on Chorlton Green last June in a blaze of oranges and purples - a wonderful sight. Lots of people came to watch and join in the dance, part of the summer solstice celebrations organised by Horse and Jockey.
I can't decide if they work better with or without the green colour!





Monday 8 October 2012

Party sketches

Some fast-sketching for a friend's 50th birthday party, with band, ceildh, card tricks, roll-a-pound-at-the-whisky, singing, candles, bar, cake and good company. What a wonderful evening!