Studiologue
I’ve been working on ever-so-secret projects of late and so there is not much to show for my studio time. Here are two line drawings from my notebook that I Photoshop-blasted for the sheer satisfaction of it.
Bobby Jealousy: A Little Death
This weekend, I made it out AT NIGHT to see Bobby Jealousy play their album release show. It was ballsy, booming, romping and brilliant– the triple-strength wonder born of the collaboration of three master songsmiths (including my mister). The album will be out and about for real soon and very soon. And by the by, [...]
New Works
February was a good month for shadow boxes and a bad month for almost everything else I am meant to be doing. I have been in the zone! I am particularly excited about my foray into drawing buildings and have been collecting images of London architecture on my pinterest page. There’s something very soothing and [...]
Oh Simple Thing
I’m being simple at the moment. I don’t know if it is all the uncertainty (visa applications pending) or the new baby or just a time to reprioritise but I have slowed right down and for now, I have let a lot of things go. I have, however, been spending a lot of my snatched [...]
Many Hands
1941, the year that gave us Paul Simon, Bob Dylan and David Hill. Yes, my old man just became a septuagenarian and in honour of his birthday I did an illustration to go with his moniker Mad Old Bugger which he esoterically abbreviates to MOBgr. I can’t think why (ahem) but I wanted [...]
Drawing…
…birds. It’s my own little self-assigned project. I do have a plan in mind but for now I am drawing birds over and over until I find the ones that sing. Most of them are donkers* so far. Cybele Young draws great birds. I tried to be like her. Blue Jay: B-b-b-boring. Tail-feather confusion, must [...]
Lately…
Reading: The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien. Gratefully reading it, I should say. That and Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe – sigh, bit hard to get into but yes, I am relieved that my moral character won’t be tainted by reading it. Drawing: These are the (very) raw beginnings of a couple of bits [...]
New Nook
This is my new work space, isn’t it lovely? It’s a little cosy nook behind a piano. My last “studio” was bang in the middle of our bedroom and so much more situated in a shared space with all of the mess, sleeping people and ins-and-outs that entails. After what seems like ages moving, packing, [...]
Toast ‘er
My little sister-in-law, Anna is just finishing her BA (Hons) in Illustration at University College Falmouth. She has her final degree show this weekend and I’m sad to have missed the whole shebang because 1) she is one of my favourite people ever 2) she is very talented and 3) she lives by the sea. [...]
Hannah Stoney is a British artist and writer.