Look back in lockdown
There’s been plenty of time to experience different levels of isolation, solitude and loneliness during the pandemic. The idea of …
Category Archives: Travel sketchbooks
Pop-up report from the front lines
This week I introduced a fascinating Vertical Studio talk at Cardiff Met by CSAD Illustration graduate and Associate Lecturer …
Private kingdoms: a Marrakesh sketchbook
At the end of January I had the chance to lead a group of 2nd year students from across the …
All Screwed Up? Start Again
If you’re ever stuck for a subject, screw up a piece of paper: a self-portrait by other means, and a great …
Drive Time
“A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.” quotes Ian Pollock in his splendid Lao Tzu Part …
4 Studies of a Man
Doodling in the Dark
cinematheque.fr/fr/expositions-cinema/printemps-2012-tim-burto1/ Not a fan of those wookey spirals but I enjoyed the Tim Burton show at Cinematheque Francaise. An abundance …
Paris without scarves
Paris without scarves? – unimaginable. (Designer stubble also de rigeur.) Man on Metro April 2012.
The Art of Finger Dexterity
Back to basics this week with some left hand wobbly line drawings: this one on a bus in Oxford.
Fleeting glimpse
Putting together a Travelling Muse for Monday, looking at strategies for capturing people on the move. Sunday morning, Salthill, Galway …
