The Cupboard Under the Stairs is a blog about the struggles to use art in a useful way. The name of the blog is because the cupboard under the stairs is where most of the painting and sketches end up - in my case there is also under the bed, tucked in books, in the loft, an old box on which the telly sits and countless draws and shelves. Its getting silly. So this is a new space to encourage me the keep moving forwards.
Saturday, 3 September 2011
Witchy - new drawings
New idea :os
These are a few of the new pics. I have been working pretty fast on these - really hope it doesn't show, I'm always messy anyway...
I loved drawing the toads, got lucky with that as well, as me and Lily found a little toad the other day on a walk. He looked a bit like the one on the left.
Enjoying cake - this is how I look when eating cake.
Designing dresses I want to wear.
Going to be more drawings of cats - sneeze Jen!
And getting to grips with drawing bats :os
I'm having fun with it, it's going to be quite simple this one.
(o:3
Tuesday, 9 August 2011
Saturday, 6 August 2011
Wednesday, 3 August 2011
Art Dump 2
These pictures were from one of the first books I put together. I'm afraid looking back at them now I have come to realise that I'm probably crazy.
Again the story let me down - it just wasn't as much fun as the pictures.
I love drawing animals and I learnt to draw cats in English A'level class. I used to draw them over my friend Jen's work along with the word SNEEZE- she's allergic. I don't think she thought much of this, neither did our teacher. Happy Days.
This one above was inspired by my mum's cat Mop. He designs hats... :os
Actually am quite an odd person :os
But again characters I love. I remember sending this off somewhere and knowing I wasn't happy with it. Its hard to know what to do when the story doesn't come together - should you move on or keep trying?
Art Dump 1
Perhaps not the most attractive way of putting it, but I'm really just dumping some art that I have had for a while. I wrote a little story for these characters sometime ago...
...it was awful.
It was far too rushed and I really just need to start again. I'm putting them out here because I really quite like these characters and wanted to share them.
I feel really guilty I didn't spend much time on them :o(
I will try and make it up to them :o)
Saturday, 23 July 2011
More Lily-inspired pics
These are some more pictures from the book that I'm making. Most of these come from photos, which in A'level fine art I was told was not the 'done thing', but sod it.
Lily has been loads of fun to draw. I have done sketches of her - mostly when she's asleep - but for a lot of these I have used photos as a guide. I don't draw the photos exactly as I'm rubbish at that and it takes the fun out of it. I also think what's the point of making a painting which looks like a photo - well unless your Chuck Close - and I think you capture something being a bit less precise - not sure what though :os
Lily is very good at having her photo taken :o)
This last one is the last page of the book. It's a very messy sort of book I'm not a tidy person and I think it sort of reflects Lily as well who utterly enjoys mess.
Wednesday, 20 July 2011
My Muse
Have spent the last couple of months working on a book for Lily, where I have done loads of watercolour pictures of her (over 20) and then scrapbooked them.
These are some rough copies so far and not the end result, mostly because I decided to work on A3 so she would have an A4 book at the end of it. A3 is imposible to scan so I'll try and take pictures to show you end result, because - for once - I am quite proud of it.
My biggest problem now is getting the photocopies and making it into a boardbook for her and it HAS to be a board book as she will destroy it otherwise the little scamp :o)
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