In the most recent leading article for Living Ethics Simon Longstaff explores to what extent one is able to get one’s hands dirty while in public office. The illustration responds to this with a Public Office hot-air balloon lifting those in that position beyond arms’ reach of those crying out for help.
The family Christmas card for this year shows the sheep in the fields, rather than the shepherds which most of the time get all the attention. There’s still the token star to hint at what goes on beyond the hills, but I felt the sheep were over-due some attention. A rertro-active Merry Christmas!
This is roughly the balance of tools recenlty, with an equal amount of paint, ink and biro and Tipp-Ex being used. Initially just to make small corrections to black and white artwork, but increasingly as a way to place highlights - the applicator is really well shaped to be used as such.
The St James Christmas card for this year bears a not-so-domestic scene of hospitality; hospitality shown by a homeless person to a banker who carries a box as one might do when recently asked to clear one’s desk. Surrounded by lashing rain and general discomfort there is still a place for some warmth and kindness; which I think echoes the spirit of Christmas nicely; not a sense that all is well or will be well tomorrow, but a gentle shaft of light cast into the darkness.
As a bonus I have added some of the earlier stages of the illustration - the first sketch, more detailed sketch, first pass of the painting and finally the completed piece. Clicking the icon or link above will get you straight to the final piece, clicking it again moves through the four stages.
This one goes a fair while back - I think I drew this somewhere in 2005 with the intention of it being a whole series which starts with Gnook drawing a square on the ground and mysteriously extrapolating it into the third dimension, after which myriad adventures follow. Four years later there’s not that many more, but in a ’start the way you mean to carry on’ sort-of-way, here’s the first one.
Some original artwork for a guide to wargames - in the HG Wells tradition - written by Padre Paul Wright. The picture is part of a larger panel (which in itself is part of two panels), but as this is the cut that was used this is what I’ll post here. I liked the mental image of large dice (rather than guns and amunition) being towed to the battlefields in Napoleonic march.
To what extent does the quest for Money (Money!) overshadow actions that we need to take? Simon Longstaff draws an interesting link from the use of the ‘but we can’t really afford that’ excuse that is used to stave off radical environmental action at the moment to exactly the same excuse being used to not-just-yet abolish the slave trade (have a read of the piece here). The accompanying illustration in the meantime can be found here.buy software discount Adobe Premiere 2.0 cheap oem software cheap software oem “Discount OEM Software Photoshop CS3 Premium Learning Suite”
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A First Birthday Present, this one. Painted in acrylics, though I’m quite keen to start playing with oils at some point. I bought some a fair while ago but haven’t found the time to sit down and get to grips with them.
Music wise, though as far a cry as possible from the gentle whimsy I was aiming for with this picture, I enjoyed listening to the Dangermouse/Sparklehorse/David Lynch collaboration ‘Dark Night of the Soul’ while working on this.
In the same way that Autechre’s abstract electronica for me sort of illustrate the Transfiguration, so the shoe-gazing glory of My Bloody Valentine (the band), Ride’s ‘Drive Blind’ and others sort of illustrate (in a way that music can and images can’t) the overload and distortion that I imagine John overcome by during his vision. An un-nameable overwhelming that all to often (in my humble opinion) is lacking when we think about and experience faith.
I’m running late with these now - I’ll post the last two this week, starting with this cover for the evening on The First Letter to the Corinthians. First Corinthians feels to me to be very much about the growing pains of a young church - hence a picture of a church with roots. The recorded talk is available on Virtual Theology. I’ll post Revelation later this week!buy software discount Adobe Premiere 2.0 software for cheap adobe oem software cheap “Discount OEM Software Photoshop CS3 Premium Learning Suite”
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