Poster and other jibberish.

Categories: artwork, books, and-another-thing

Tags: busses, brush play, Guildford Book Festival, Brushes

Date: 20 July 2009 20:57:27

Images first:

poster002

poster001

These are details of the poster for the Big Book Draw. Started in Brushes on the iPod touch on the number 34 bus and finished in Pixelmator on the... hmmm what was it? 34 or 35? One or the other anyhow. The busses are my zone, as I've mentioned before. Finishing it off now and listening to rock blues because I'm feeling a little deflated for no reason I can put my finger on really.

Anyhow: image more or less working. Because of the nature of the Brushes app you can neither plan ahead too greatly nor change things once the framework is set in place which is both liberating (no tools to distract, just you and a brush) and limiting (you mean I can't move just that part of the picture two pixels to the right nnnnnn....) Loving it as ever but there's a couple of times I'm frowning at it wishing it had just the one more tool I need although I dare say others are doing that too just wanting something different and therein lies the road to bloat.

Lastly have been looking at artwork from two of my favourite artists: Dave McKean and Guillherme Marconi. Inspiring and dispiriting in equal measure although that's more to do with the mood I find myself in this evening. DMK's opus (well, one of them) Cages is due for re-release soon and it's something I've missed out on parts of so can't wait to catch up on that.

Anyhow: time to rest. Taking child 2 to Pa pa's tomorrow and that'll require reserves of energy intact.