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Abstract Series ILast year was utterly awful in terms of creativity (as for most people I think), and I took a complete break from illustration, mostly down to mental health (post covid malaise), stress, raising my daughter etc. I’m getting back into...

Abstract Series I

Last year was utterly awful in terms of creativity (as for most people I think), and I took a complete break from illustration, mostly down to mental health (post covid malaise), stress, raising my daughter etc. I’m getting back into it this year and have a bunch of projects I am working on. I am easing myself in with a series of abstracts based on a recent exhibition I attended (Strange Clay at the Haywood) and adjacent architecture I saw there. This is the first. Posca pens and Fineliners in an A6 Seawhite of Brighton sketchbook. 

P.S. Apologies for Tumblr’s horrific compression which always ruins art and illustration and reduces vibrant colours to a dull blur. 

cheerless-chikory:
“ I hang above your head
You hang around my neck
You’re strung across my back
I’m slung across your lap
Been a long time since the sun was in the sky
Been a long time since I looked into your eyes
Do you see her in the mirror when...

cheerless-chikory:

I hang above your head
You hang around my neck
You’re strung across my back
I’m slung across your lap

Been a long time since the sun was in the sky
Been a long time since I looked into your eyes
Do you see her in the mirror when you’re alone
Do you see her under water and sea foam

We’re not lost
Yet
We got lost
Dead

Oh, why did you get so low?
Why did you let go?

When all the vultures bow
To taste us fallen down
I stare into the white
And through the other side

Pray to the One
Who can
Pray to the Sun
Who can
Bring back everyone
Who can
Bring back everyone

White light


- Undersmile / Aeris -

MastodonI have decided given the current shit show going down at Twitter, it wouldn’t be the worst idea to open an account over at Mastodon. Not as tricky or complicated as people have asserted, though not as simple at Twitter, and perhaps that’s not...

Mastodon

I have decided given the current shit show going down at Twitter, it wouldn’t be the worst idea to open an account over at Mastodon. Not as tricky or complicated as people have asserted, though not as simple at Twitter, and perhaps that’s not a bad thing. Click on the link below to find me. At the moment I am just on the UK server. Originally I wanted to be able to join Mastodon.art but they have closed applications at the moment, so when I can I will open an account there too, as I would like to keep both identities separate. I quite like being on the UK server as there are a lot of very interesting people on there, lots of writers, historians and archaeologists.

TWISTEDWHIMSY@MASTODONAPP.UK 

Here is a useful article on using Mastodon on Medium.

ETA:
Finally got approval to be able to Join MastodonArt. Super pleased as the art and design there is awesome. Follow the link below to find me there too:

 LORRIEWHITTINGTON@MASTODON.ART

lorelie-creeper:
“VW Beatle at Beach Dubbin 2022Went to Beach Dubbin in Portsmouth with my Dad over the summer, and decided to do an illustration from a photo I took of one of the cars I saw there in my mixed media sketchbook (personal project).
This...

lorelie-creeper:

VW Beatle at Beach Dubbin 2022

Went to Beach Dubbin in Portsmouth with my Dad over the summer, and decided to do an illustration from a photo I took of one of the cars I saw there in my mixed media sketchbook (personal project).

This is in a Seawhite of Brighton sketchbook (fairly heavy cartridge paper, ideal for mixed media) using markers, pencil and fineliners.