Why are energy bills rising faster in the UK than anywhere else? Illustration reuse in the New Statesman [original AD for The Economist: Graeme James]
Illustration in The New Statesmen
Antiques Roadshow
More planty shapes
More planty shapes—this time from inside the house. Mostly ink.
Plants around my house
Ink drawings at 30x30cm. Shapes from the front of the house, the side, and at the back. The last of the Belarusian ink. I loved that ink.
Pulau Seribu memory
This is an old one I rediscovered—a montage (non-digital) of cut-up bits of watercolour paintings—made when I was still living in Jakarta.
It was part of a set of illustrations for a World Wildlife Fund book, but was never actually used in the end.
Illustrations for Road & Track
Sweet illustration job for Road & Track magazine—with big thanks to Cassidy Zobl.
This issue is themed ‘handmade’, and the idea was to create illustrations which depicted the two cars as if captured in a sketchbook. Everything was indeed handmade but some extra splashes and marks, and that fold down the middle of the page in the first one, were added digitally.
Tools on a stool
Ink and pencil at about 40x40cm.
Het overleg
I’ll tell them I’m a dynamite dealer…
Albert Finney as Arthur Seaton in ‘Saturday Night Sunday Morning’. The bit where he’s trying to make conversation with his dad, but his dad just isn’t listening.
Shame on you Putin
Another experiment combining elements from different sketchbook pages.