Jane Horton

The Mound: Its raining today

Fri, 04 May 2012 08:10:53 +0100

The great Spanish cartoonist Ángel Antonio Mingote Barrachina...

Thu, 05 Apr 2012 10:53:00 +0100

The great Spanish cartoonist Ángel Antonio Mingote Barrachina has died. Along with Saul Steinberg, these two jiggled with post modernism in illustration long before anyone else.

Ángel Antonio Mingote Barrachina

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Possible commission to provide a guide around an industrial...

Thu, 29 Mar 2012 21:40:54 +0100

Possible commission to provide a guide around an industrial site. Chose lots of different bright colours for the roofs of each building to make them easily identifiable. Have done two versions, one with the yellow foreground and one without. Will see what they think ….

Kid Acne

Thu, 29 Mar 2012 21:04:54 +0100

Kid Acne:

He’s doing far more interesting drawings of Sheffield buildings than me! I could learn a lot from the interesting angles and the way he mixes buildings up together.

the sketch journalist

Thu, 29 Mar 2012 13:44:00 +0100

the sketch journalist:

Yeah! an urban sketcher after my own heart. He also sketches on an iPad, and posts them up on Youtube. He also put together a great new book on urban sketching.

Ellen Weinstein New York Illustrator and Designer

Thu, 29 Mar 2012 13:06:00 +0100

Ellen Weinstein New York Illustrator and Designer:

If I could aspire to a style of illustration it would be this. I love the combination/juxtapositioning of strong images, always providing a richness of stimulus to the viewer. They always appear so simple and yet the concepts are actually very sophisticated. That’s the trick. I also like the collaging of some hand drawn/painted elements with digital work.

I've just discovered this fabulous lush artist's work: I like her carborundum prints in particular

Thu, 29 Mar 2012 10:55:00 +0100

I've just discovered this fabulous lush artist's work: I like her carborundum prints in particular

George Grosz Exhibition

Wed, 21 Mar 2012 20:07:47 +0000

I’ve just been to the opening of the George Grosz exhibition at the Cantor Gallery in Sheffield, a Hayward travelling exhibition. It’s a small collection of lithographs with some in colour taken from various series he undertook, many of which resulted in court appearances and book burning in Nazi Germany. What is remarkable about them is how fresh and bright they seem and relevant in the 21at century, his imagery is human scale: drinking, fighting, domestic scenes, men with prostitutes. The small scale of them is striking but the images are ‘big’ in content .. This is something that appeals to me: the scale being easily accessible.

Pen and ink drawing of a view of the still life that has all the...

Sat, 10 Mar 2012 18:16:55 +0000

Pen and ink drawing of a view of the still life that has all the elements in it and I think does communicate the notion of a printmaking workshop. It’s a fairly conventional view though treatment of the printed sheet in the image was too hurried.

Thumbnails from close up cut offs of each photo I took made it...

Sat, 10 Mar 2012 18:11:40 +0000

Thumbnails from close up cut offs of each photo I took made it easier to create interesting compositions

Thumbnail sketches from the still life I set up

Sat, 10 Mar 2012 18:10:19 +0000

Thumbnail sketches from the still life I set up

Photo

Sat, 10 Mar 2012 16:46:27 +0000

And two shots from a very low angle, more interesting I think.

Sat, 10 Mar 2012 16:45:50 +0000

And two shots from a very low angle, more interesting I think.

And a shot from above

Sat, 10 Mar 2012 14:36:39 +0000

And a shot from above

I tried a couple more that we’re un interesting but then...

Sat, 10 Mar 2012 14:35:45 +0000

I tried a couple more that we’re un interesting but then liked this one with the inks in a pool of light.

So a close up at a low angle, better, more interesting …

Sat, 10 Mar 2012 14:34:20 +0000

So a close up at a low angle, better, more interesting …

Exercise: to take photos and do a series of thumbnails on the...

Sat, 10 Mar 2012 14:33:07 +0000

Exercise: to take photos and do a series of thumbnails on the theme: WORKSHOP. I arranged a few printmaking tools and photographed them from a few angles. Hmm, this view has little merit.

Feedback on my cemetery tour guide

Sat, 10 Mar 2012 14:30:47 +0000

I proffered my tour guide design to the cemetery volunteer group to see if they wanted to use it for visitors to the site. They really liked it though some of the more elderly volunteers found the colours too garish. There was also a query about some inaccuracies and a concern that it would use the ink up on the printer too quickly! (a justifiable criticism for a voluntary group). A lesson learned when developing designs with customers in mind.

Reflection on this exercise

Sun, 26 Feb 2012 23:02:03 +0000

If I were doing this again I wouldn’t have used as many words, would have had fewer items in it and wouldn’t have added the rotunda at the top or the tree in the middle as it looks out of place. I do like the colours and my choice of a nominal green oblong-ish shape to denote green space and also to detract from the rectangular convention of the paper does work I think, and I don’t think it matters that the green shape doesn’t correlate to anything in particular. I found it both quick and easy to create this image because I am so familiar with the site (walk mg dog here every day) and also have all the information about it in my head since I used to run historical tours around the site. This just makes me realise the value of research when doing illustration. The more preparation/research you do, the easier the task becomes.

And here is the final image. The pen and ink drawing was on A3...

Sun, 26 Feb 2012 22:47:10 +0000

And here is the final image. The pen and ink drawing was on A3 paper so I couldn’t scan it but took a photo of it and then colored it in Brushes and added the copperplate font in TypeDrawing, both apps on my iPad. I think the colours work quite well, but I had some difficulty squeezing in all the information I wanted to add. I should have de-selected some I think! The font works well because it’s reminiscent of the carved lettering on the gravestones.