This week’s Illustration Friday picture is a sampler of scratchboard textures and also an illustration for one of my favourite books: Joan Lindsay’s Time Without Clocks, a memoir of artistic life (she was an artist and author, her husband an artist who became curator of the National Gallery) in Australia between the wars. She and her husband were visited by one of her old friends, and while the men were elsewhere, Joan and her friend sat in the living room working on a story they had been writing together when they were studying. The clock was broken, and so when they thought it was about four, they stuck a piece of paper to the clock with “four o’clock” written on it, and when they thought half an hour must have passed, updated it accordingly.
Here is a colour version:
They’re both very lovely. They look time intensive…well done!
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I turned out rather well! I really like the coat design and the effect used on the white part of the fireplace.
Thankyou, Indigene. As for time intensive – well, who needs sleep :)
And thanks Aimee for posing and for the comment. I would rather like the coat for myself.
I like this one a lot.
I love all of the patterns in this…
The color version is especially lovely!!
Thanks for your very kind comments…
And have a wonderful day!
Denise
Thankyou, crisitunity!
And thankyou Denise (and have a wonderful day) – I enjoyed putting the patterns in. This piece is partly a sampler.