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coffee related illustration
The second piece in a slowly growing montage of meals and food fell off the artistic conveyor belt recently. I call it 'Coffee and Cake' and it does what it says on the barista-style tin, really. Next stop? Lunchtime!
Illustration of the British Museum
Earlier this year (or was it last year?) I took a stroll around the outside of the British Museum. I know there are amazing artefacts to be found inside (one day I'd like to do some sketching there), but the pseudo Greco-Roman architecture outside was what I was concerned with. The building is surrounded by a large amount of space: something that would never happen now. This space almost feels like a European piazza in France or Hungary, and on the day I went it was a cold, windswept slab to negotiate on your way to the mummies.
This is piece is deliberately distorted and seemed to work well with a cold blue palette. All the carvings above are a lot less looming in real life, but I figured that this way you can't ignore them. Much more dramatic.
After tweeting the image a week or so go, I am now followed by the British Museum herself. Hopefully they're not expecting me to post future items written in cuneiform or Norse, though.
Row of derelict shops
Fairly recently, I did a mixed media picture inspired by a row of derelict buildings I came across in the East End of London. Vallance Road was the address, and 'Vallance Road, E1' is the art. However, the good news is that they have been saved from demolition. Too important an architectural feature to let them become a grey block of offices. There is a great set of photos of the road as it is now, but also what it used to look like on the legendary Spitalfields Life blog here.
screen shot of a web page
There was quite a lot of twitter chat after I shared my image, and somebody from San Francisco, USA has bought a print of it from me. East meets West. So, here's a link to my print shop, and a reminder of the work and the initial pencil drawing I did.
Illustration of empty buildings
pencil drawing of a street