clockwatching

clockwatching study, originally uploaded by aesop.

Over the last few days I've been working on my PhD studies and trying to get a little book together for an exhibition around a 'sitting room' theme. I've been working on ideas around grandfather clocks.

nightmilling (study)

nightmilling (study), originally uploaded by aesop.

uploading a load of material from sketchbooks now to add to my studio journal.

This study is from work for a series of prints I'm working on to do with windmills.

coptic stitch

coptic stitch, originally uploaded by aesop.

A how to diagram for Guerilla Bookbinding which will be happening at Spike Island in February. I'm going to produce a whole booklet like this with the 6-10 different bindings I'll be teaching.

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planning saturday

It's going to be the first Saturday in a while at home for me, and I'm looking forward to a day's farting around the place. Laundry will get done, tidying will happen, and all within reach of a never-cooling kettle.

I'm also going to treat myself to a job I've wanted to do for some time: drawing up my own diagram-guides for my guerilla bookbinding class. I've appropriated stuff from all over before, but I'm planning a sort of folksy handlettered booklet feel. I'll be able to devise it as a booklet in itself, too, which will be satisfying and give my students a nifty way to keep some record of the bedlam that might possibly be referred to. The least I can do after benfitting from other's work is to offer my own material for others: I'll post versions for download when I get them finished.

Lindy's invited me over for dinner on Saturday night, too, which will be cool.

finger puppets

finger puppets, originally uploaded by aesop.

These here characters are part of my contribution to A-Mart, the art supermarket at Ale and Porter in Bradford-On_Avon. The opening will be at 6.30 on Friday, and there'll be lots of stuff there from dozens of artists, including ceramics in the shape of 'tupperware' type plastic containers, t-shirts and stuff by Mark Pawson, and artists books by me and Melanie ward, amongst others, all set amidst the engagingly bizarre cerise colour scheme dreamed u for the occasion. I was quite keen on the sock puppets which will be available, though there's also a range of pinhole camera-related stuff that looks good, too.

I was over there yesterday, having gotten a lift from Linda Clark, whose driving opened up a new chapter with this inter-town run, hooray. As always, everyone was very welcoming and sympathetic about my sore back. I'm in the wars again now, having managed to introduce a fragment of prawn cracker into the surroundings of my left eyeball, which swelled up a good deal. Sarah's liberal application of ice in a selection of rubber gloves kindly supplied by viki seem to have done the trick and staved off a monocular future for a while, though I'm typing wit the affected eye still closed and a bit itchy-runny, but well within acceptable norms. ( I can see fine through it if anyone's worried, though it still feels a bit crumby). Spoiled a game of scrabble that was shaping up to be enjoyably awful.

I.F., originally uploaded by aesop.

for illustration friday

Patrick Moore

Patrick Moore, originally uploaded by aesop.

My favourire cyclopean astronomer.

the persistence of vanity

the persistence of vanity, originally uploaded by aesop.

 

the persistence of vanity

the persistence of vanity, originally uploaded by aesop.

 

tea at Tranquility

tea at Tranquility, originally uploaded by aesop.

pillow study, originally uploaded by aesop.

sketchbook entries

sketchbook entries, originally uploaded by aesop.

L's little Rupa, White Tara.