If Buildings Could Talk print series

Another amazing day of screen printing!! These are for a new project, Parallel Cities, and in particular these refer to the life of Camberwell College.

Palimpsest Project: Museum of London drawing task

Yep, another drawing task!

At the Museum of London, I was looking at the London through the eras by drawing what interested me during each point in History. In particular, I enjoyed translating 3D models into drawings on a page but still retaining and even creating the feel of life and being in that moment of that time. I love models of place, this has inspired me to seek out a model village to draw!

It was fascinating to learn about what life was like many years ago. The Round houses in particular!

Palimpsest Project: Spitalfields Drawing Task

      

       

       

I have been working on a project where the focus in to make an anthropological representation of Spitalfields. On a visit to Spitalfields market, I had a drawing task where by I was to draw the people and their interaction with other people, and the environment of the market. 

From Small Beginnings Come Great Things

'Date of Birth', 21cm x 14.5xm, charcoal drawing 

Another summer project drawing completed!

I wanted to communicate my DOB by drawing the scene of the moment in time when I was born and using elements of time keeping to best describe the date and time.

I decided charcoal was best suited to suggest the sense of past-time and a memory, as well as not haven used this material in a while.

Sadly, I have no scanner as I am now living in London uni halls!!!

The Oopsatoreum

 Cover  illustration  for the accompanying book for the exhibition, a portrait of Henry Mintox demonstrating his 'inpiration Recorder' on 1922 (based on a photo of Thomas Edison, an early photograph).

What I really like about Shaun Tan's work, and as most others would agree, is the acute observation to detail and magical stories that engulf me into their world that I wish so hard to be real!

I found out a little about what The Ooopsatoreum is:

What does it mean to be truly original?
Should creativity be measured only by success?
Or is it really the thought that counts ?
No matter how impractical?
Behind every enduring innovation lies a vast cemetery of achievement: the world of failed inventions.
Award-winning author and illustrator Shaun Tan explores this forgotten world in The Oopsatoreum, a fictional tale of a strikingly original but spectacularly unsuccessful inventor. Woven around strange and largely obscure artefacts from the Powerhouse Museum, the whimsical stories in this book are for anyone who has ever made a mistake.
Illustrated with original drawings by Shaun Tan and stunning photographs of objects from the Powerhouse Museum collection. 

Sounds amazing.


Source:
www.shauntan.net