Magic - Part 2

Just finished my response for Petr's book in good old fashioned style - on the bus to Spindleruv Mlyn with Nikki at my side.
The idea being to illustrate the song Magic by Bruce Springstein, I started with the hanging men that Petr had finished with, but let them hang a little differently. I sort of went for the last two lines before the refrain in each verse and mix them up together, so the rabbit is hiding in the magicians hat which normally he tries to draw a bunch of flowers from, but this time he's gotten a whole forest for the ghosts to hang from.
This piece is a whole lot bigger than the pieces I've done before, basically the story kept on getting more complex, at one point I thought I'd turned into Ruth, with this fantastic story for how the men had escaped from their fate in the trees and caught a ride into this new world…………

I got a rabbit in the hat
If you wanna come and see
This is what will be
This is what will be


Trust none of what you hear
And less of what you see
This is what will be (This is what will be)
This is what will be

Driftin' like a ghost amongst the trees
This is what will be
This is what will be (This is what will be)


Bodies hanging in the trees
This is what will be (This is what will be)
This is what will be

Erin's Book

So, Sketchers, take 3?!  It's hard to believe that this is my third Sketchers book, time does truly fly.  I am attempting to find myself as an artist.   Things still look better in my head than they do on paper.  I don't really have a theme for this book, my mind is all over the place as I experience a new work environment and a new city, so technically my first few pieces are about some of my impressions of Sao Paulo.   It is the 7th largest city in the world and there is a lot going on.   I haven't had much of a chance to explore yet, but as I do I'll hopefully be able to add some of those experiences to further pieces of work.

I've put a few pieces in my book to start with, one about food, one about colour and culture and one about the contrasts in my neighbourhood.

Anne's Book - the continuing story

Hi All,

My book is now on it's 3rd year of existence. I liked my themes and decided that I wasn't ready to be done with it yet. Petr's fabulous sketches of everyone gave me an idea about how I'm going to fill in any spaces when I get my book back at the end of this year.

So you have 2 themes
The Little Things in Life
Strangely Normal

There are also 5 places where you can put your piece - just join on to any existing piece and use as little or as much space as you like.

My piece to start is a mixture of both - the little things in life is seeing the last leaf on a tree. It's strangely normal, as I keep on with my embroidery theme but wanted to explore something different, so went for a barely there approach - keeping the colours very close to the colour of the material.

It's a bit too subtle in the photo, the 3D effect of the embroidery adds a bit more in real life.

Petr's Book / Entry One

I was considering quite a few themes for my book and in the end decided for one I had on mind for quite a long time throughout the many exchanges. I'd like to ask all who will contribute in this book to interpret/illustrate a segment of or an entirety of a lyric - namely Bruce Springsteen's "Magic". This lyric (and the song) have got a real magic to it - at least for me - hence my choice. 

I decided to illustrate various parts of the song in a flow of imagery across a couple spreads. I chose black and white and red as my key colours and went for simple silhouette-like images. I wanted to create something similar in ink for quite a while and so I really appreciated this opportunity.

Hope you'll have as much fun as I did!

Music here 

Lyric including my initial sketch below: