Time after Time: An Artist's Book in the Making

  Time After Time 2017-17 painting complete - yippee! Thank you, Jac, Ros and all of the Illustration tutors, I have loved it and will keep doing it!

  Struggling with some of the final details and terrible handwriting but got there in the end!

I have been following Clare Youngs on Instagram for quite a while now and she appears to be prolific as there are new posts with different work almost daily. Her work has some parallels with Rex Ray - her use of hand-decorated papers, collage and pattern - and it is very playful with beautiful use of colour, shape and pattern. I am starting to think ahead to the next panel, 2018-19, and I hope to experiment with some of these methods, particularly creating decorative papers that can be cut out for leaves, animals etc. (whilst remembering the lesson learned from copying Matazo's smoke!).  https://www.clareyoungs.co.uk/about

A lesson learned: I am very drawn to the work of Kayama Matazo - colour, shape, pattern and composition - and I thought the way he draws water could help me with the Grenfell Tower problem: to create the sense of 'after the fire', smoke turning into clouds and dawn breaking. However, a day of trying to replicate his folding lines resulted in frustration, drawings of ugly muscles and little more! So I 'returned to type' the next day, spirals and circles (peeping sun borrowed from Matazo) and I am happy  with the result. The tower is also resolved, 72 windows representing the people who died, the colour is a magnification of a butterfly wing to represent the colour and brightness of the lives that were lost, rather than the fire itself, and also the fleeting nature of life. I will slot the names into the book too.

A new discovery! This artist, a former veterinary surgeon, makes incredibly detailed drawings of microscopic imagery using the full range of graphite tones, they are described on his website as 'cellular landscapes'. The drawings are decorative, sometimes drawn from the imagination/memory and evoke different scales of space (familiar themes); his posture and magnifying glasses are also striking a chord, so I don't feel quite so bonkers now... https://mycreativeedge.eu/profile/michael-geddis-art/ Retrieved 12.08.2022