"...been a long time since I rock and rolled..."

Yep, it's been a long lonely, lonely, lonely, lonely, lonely time, as the god of rock'n'roll once said.

So here's an illustration I was commissioned to produce for a museum in Oxfordshire. It's a Bronze Age hunting scene, and the point of it (no pun intended) is to show one of the purposes bronze spears had; knocking large animals over for food, that is.

I really enjoyed working on this one, I have a bit of a fascination for all things Bronze Age.



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Trickster

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This is a painting I made as a gift for my father. I have inherited my dad's interest in Native American painting & sculpture, and have wanted to make an image of Raven, a Native American 'trickster' god, for a long time. I thought I'd try to combine a life-like image of the bird with a graphic representation of Raven, adapted from Native American drawings & sculptures I had seen. I really like how this piece turned out.

Lifeline...

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... started out as a doodle at work, then turned into one of my favourite drawings.

Annular Brooch poster

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Here's the final version of the information poster about Annular Brooches, made as the 'final piece' to a self-set project I undertook as part of my MA in Archaeological Illustration. I'm really happy with this piece; it brings together the original finds drawing I made and the reconstruction painting I made of a woman in period dress fastening the brooch (see post: August 27, 2007).

I also made three didactic illustrations (to left of poster) using Adobe Illustrator, to illustrate how annular brooches are fastened, as it's not always obvious! These small diagrams were a real challenge for me, as drawing from scratch in Illustrator is quite a different beastie to doing it in Photoshop, but I'm really glad I persevered with them, I think they came out well. A bigger version of one of the diagrams is shown below.



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Charlestown

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An ink sketch I made a few years ago of the rigging of the tall ship 'Earl of Pembroke', which is usually in the harbour at Charlestown, nr. St Austell, Cornwall. It started to rain just as I was finishing this drawing, but I like the drops of inky rainwater, it adds something to the piece. I also really like this sketch because I remember it being the first time I got really excited about drawing with ink, without planning the sketch out in pencil first. A very liberating drawing experience!

Polperro

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Polperro in Cornwall is one of my favourite places to sit & sketch. Everything is just so... sketchable! Here are a couple of my favourites.

Doodle

Just another of the biro doodles my mind & hand seem to be producing lately...


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