Express, Impress, Redress

This is something that I came up with that follows on from some other designs I've been doing recently.

Sometimes, I feel like this...

This is a design sketch / idea that I came up with recently. I'd done a drawing in a similar style a few years ago, the same kind of Aztec-y pictograph concept. I'd remembered that it had worked quite well so I decided to draw a new version of it.

I'm also bearing this in mind for a portfolio site I'm working on that this will lend itself well to, and I think there are a number of ways that I may explore the look and feel that this could lend a website.

Gagarin re-modeled.

Yuri Gagarin

I was reading a little about Yuri Gagarin's achievements today, it was featured due to the anniversary of the first manned space flight. I find the whole Space Race era quite fascinating, it's almost the light side to the cold war. So I thought it would be fitting to do some artwork inspired by this subject. These drawings are oil pastel on paper.

Work with what you've got

This is more of a watch this space post then anything else, but in these tough economic times and currently feeling the penny pinch personally at this time I have to be resolved to work with what I have.

The great thing about this is though, I can put a stop to the wasteful consumer in me that wants to use four sketchbooks to do four sketches, and buy a new set of paints, to add to my four other sets of paints (ok I'm exaggerating, but you get the idea).

When I think back to my time in the UK and the canvases I bought but never quite got around to painting, I feel more determined to work with what I've got.

So, as this is a watch this space kind of blog post, here's a little tantilising teaser for you: