The Possibilities Are Endless

Delighted to get this in the post during the week! An illustration which i drew for the wedding of Deirdre Hughes & William Flood, has been used on their thank you cards to all the guests that shared their special day! Glad you liked it guys, looking good!!!

Keri Smith : 100 Idea's

By Keri Smith
http://www.kerismith.com/popular-posts/100-ideas/


100 Ideas

1. Go for a walk. Draw or list things you find on the the sidewalk. 2. Write a letter to yourself in the future. 3. Buy something inexpensive as a symbol for your need to create, (new pen, a tea cup, journal). Use it everyday. 4. Draw your dinner. 5. Find a piece of poetry you respond to. Rewrite it and glue it into your journal. 6. Glue an envelope into your journal. For one week collect items you find on the street. 7. Expose yourself to a new artist, (go to a gallery, or in a book.) Write about what moves you about it. 8. Find a photo of a person you do not know. Write a brief bio about them. 9. Spend a day drawing only red things. 10. Draw your bike. 11. Make a list of everything you buy in the next week. 12. Make a map of everywhere you went in one day. 13. Draw a map of the creases on your hand, (knuckles, palm) 14. Trace your footsteps with chalk. 15. Record an overheard conversation. 16. Trace the path of the moon in relation to where you live. 17. Go to a paint store. Collect ‘chips’ of all your favorite colors. 18. Draw your favorite tree. 19. Take 15 minutes to eat an orange. 20. Write a haiku. 21. Hang upside down for five minutes. 22. Hang found objects from tree branches. 23. Make a puppet. 24. Create an outdoor room from things you find in nature. 25. Read a book in one day. 26. Illustrate your grocery list. 27. Read a story out loud to a friend. 28. Write a letter to someone you admire. 29. Study the face of someone you do not like. 30. Make a meal based on a color theme. (i.e. all white). 31. Creat a museum of very small things. 32. List the smells in your neighborhood. 33. List 100 uses for a tin can. 34. Fill an entire page in your journal with small circles. Color them in. 35. Give away something you love. 36. Choose an object, draw the side you can’t see. 37. List all of the places you’ve ever lived. 38. Describe your favourite room in detail. 39. Write about your relationship with your washing machine. 40. Draw all of the things in your purse/bag. 41. Make a mini book based on the theme, “my grocery list”. 42. Create a character based on someone you know. Write a list of personality traits. 43. Recall your favorite childhood game. 44. Put postcards of art pieces/painting on the inside of your kitchen cupboard doors, so you can see them everyday (but not become deaf to them.) 45. Draw the same object every day for a week. 46. Write in your journal using a different medium (brush & ink, charcoal, old typewriter, crayons, fat markers. 47. Draw the individual items of your favorite outfit. 48. Make a useful item using only paper & tape. 49. Research a celebration or ritual from another culture. 50. Do a temporary art installation using a pad of post it notes & a pen. 51. Draw a map of your favorite sitting spots in your town/city. (photocopy it and give it to someone you like.) 52. Record all of the sounds you hear in the course of one hours. 53. Using a grid, collect various textures from magazine and play them off of each other. 54. Cut out all media for one day. Write about the effects. 55. Make pencil rubbings of six different surfaces. 56. Draw your garbage. 57. Do a morning collage. 58. List your ten most important things, (not including animals or people.) 59. List ten things you would like to do every day. 60. Glue a photo of yourself as a child into your journal. 61. Trasform some garbage. 62. Write an entry in your journal in really LARGE letters. 63. Collect some ‘flat’ things in nature (leaves, flowers). Glue or tape them into your journal. 64. Physically alter a page. (i.e. cut a hole, pour tea on it, burn it, fold it, etc.) 65. Find several color combinations you respond to in public. Document them using swatches, write where you found them. 66. Write a journal entry describing something “secret”. Cut it up into several pieces and glue them back in scrambled. 67. Record descriptions or definitions of subjects or words you are interested in, found in encyclopedias or dictionaries. 68. Draw the outline of an object without looking at the page. (contour drawing). 69. What were you thinking just now? write it down. 70. Do nothing. 71. Write a list of ten things you could to do. Do the last thing on the list. 72. Create an image using dots. 73. Do 3 drawings at different speeds. 74. Put a small object in your left pocket (or in a bag), Put your left hand in the pocket. Draw it by feel. 75. Create a graph documenting or measuring something in your life. 76. Draw the sun. 77. Create instructions for a simple everyday task. 78. Make prints using food. (fruit and vegetables cut in half, fish, etc.) 79. Find a photo. Alter it by drawing over it. 80. Write a letter using an unconventional medium. 81. Draw one object for twenty minutes. 82. Combine two activities that have not been combined before. 83. Write about your day in an encyclopedic fashion. (i.e. organize by subject.) 84. Write a list of all the things you do to escape. 85. Cut a random shape out of several layers of a magazine. Make a collage out of the results. 86. Write an entry in code. 87. Make a painting using tools from the bathroom. 88. Work with a medium that is subtractive. 89. Write about or draw some of the doors in your life. 90. Make a postcard that has some kind of activity on it. 91. Divise a journal entry using “layers”. 92. Divise an entry using “layers”. 93. Write your own definition of one of the following concepts, sitting, waiting, sleeping (without using the actual word.) 94. List 10 of your habits. 95. Illustrate the concept of “simplicity”.

Jacqueline Bisset : Fashion Illustrator

It's only recently that Jacqueline Bisset's work has come to my attention and WOW has it grabbed my attention!! Her use of ink and line weight is amazing, not to forget her line ecnomny! Looking at her work is a master class in drawing.
 To see more work by Bisset visit her website: http://www.illustrationweb.com/artists/JacquelineBissett/view

Bob Gill: a life less ordinary

Posted by Gavin Lucas, 5 April 2013 on "The Creative Review" blog.


At the beginning of what proved to be another highlight of the first day of Dublin's OFFSET conference, Bob Gill explained to the assembled that he wanted to talk about "design as an idea" before announcing that "every graphic design job is boring"...

"There's nothing in my head that's original," he told the audience, "and I'll wager that there's nothing original in yours either. Why? Because our heads are full of junk that's put there by the culture. The only way to clear out the junk is to have an opinion - and if it's an interesting opinion, then the design [that it informs] will be interesting."

The point of Gill's opening gambit was to demonstrate that his process of working - which has remained unchanged in principle for the 55 years - is all about having an opinion about any given brief and then expressing the resulting idea in the clearest possible way, without having a colour, typeface or particular aesthetic in mind but to let the idea find it's own visual execution.



The first example of how this process yields results for him was his response to a brief he had to create a logo for a tour company in New York. "The thing about tour guides, and I'm sure it's the same in Dublin, is that they're always out of work actors. Probably from out of town. So I wanted to disassociate this company from all the other hack companies. So how do you communicate that the company is full of real New Yorkers?" he asked. This was his solution:





Here's Gill's solution to a brief set by the United Nations to create an identity for a series of informal lunches.





And when asked to produce the poster for the 65th Art Directors Annual, Gill thought long and hard about the event itself where Art Directors - who, he suggested, all really hated each other, would congregate to congratulate each other and dish out awards. Here's the result:



And when thinking about how to best represent Jazz, Gill produced this drawing:



Gill's presentation wasn't about showcasing a huge amount of different projects but about illustrating his deceptively simple approach to creative thinking. And it was hugely entertaining, not least because of his stand-up like confidence on stage. But his message was simple. "If you want your lives and your work to be interesting, don't just do layouts - but think about the brief and come up with an opinion that will inform your design approach. If you're designing a logo for a dry cleaners, don't sit at your computer, go to a dry cleaners!"

For more info about OFFSET2013, visit iloveoffset.com.

William Kentridge: Animation Stills

All above works are stills from varies William Kentridge animations.

Book Sculpture

Book Sculpture- Artist: Unknown