A Week Away

I'm having a week away from the PC, from the media & from the on line world in general. No blog reading, no facebook, no email and no news. I've done it before when I've started to feel artistically stale and it always works. You have to engage with what's physically around you for a week and that has fantastic repercussions in your art.

See you on the other side.

Trying on Robot Suits

Sometimes I need to create something completely different from my usual art. When I get this urge one of the things I do is to go to charity or second hand book shops and look through the visual books there for inspiration. Yesterday I found a Taschen book on old robots. Which inspired me to draw this.

It took me less than 10 minutes and is ink on lovely brown craft paper in my hand made journal from my arty friend Little Raven. A big departure from my usual work, so I added a pretty girl face inside the suit.

I wish this month's theme was robots & machines. Maybe next month!

Have you tried drawing something different from your usual subjects recently. What did you draw & how did it go?

August's Theme - Light and Dark

Setting the theme for the month is always tricky because I want leave as much open to your imagination's but still provide some direction for when you are feeling stuck.

This month's theme came to me when I was writing my morning pages and thinking about how much 'bad' stuff is happening in my life at the moment and trying to counter that with thinking about 'good' stuff too. I've heard - and I'm sure you have too - the idea that you can't see the light (i.e. good) properly if you don't have the darkness (i.e. bad) but I don't have much direct experience of that situation so thought it would be useful to explore the ideas in my art.

I hope you'll join the exploration. If you'd like your work publishing here please email me at kooky.makes@gmail.com.