I draw everyday. Sometimes it is a stick figure. After America and the sketch journal I have tried to continue drawing from life and reference* as well as from my imagination (the two are after all able to be combined infinitely). The picture below is based on a photo by one of the many skilled and inventive photographers and artists on flickr, Karla Jean Davis. Her photo, A Stiff Breeze, from a luminous photoshoot inspired by Mucha’s illustrations, was the basis for this sketch, executed in marker one evening when I was staying late back trying to do more work. The text is from the “Ballad of Tam Lin”, version Child 39A.
Since the only person who actually does anything in the ballad (and does she ever!) is Janet, it really should be called the Ballad of Janet of Carterhaugh.
—-
*I do attribute my references, in this case on the next page of the sketchbook.
April 12, 2008 at 8:33 am
This is gobsmackingly beautiful! Very, very well done.
April 12, 2008 at 9:42 am
Oh, thankyou Rebecca!
April 13, 2008 at 10:07 pm
Hi Tanaudel,
I haven’t been blog-hopping in a while and today I come around and see that one: you’ve made a very nice new April header! It’s fun and I always thought April was a clown :)
And two: this sketch is awesome! really it is.
April 14, 2008 at 8:34 am
Thankyou Mark – I was going to do a series of fish for the header (poisson d’avril) but thought I’d stick with my own cultural background:)
April 19, 2008 at 7:25 pm
This should grace the cover of a Moleskine!