Mariscal

doodlings

A week or so ago I went to the Mariscal retrospective at the Design Museum. These are some doodlings I did on the spot, plus a quote which I think might have come from a children’s workshop run as part of the exhibit.
It was a great little show but then Mariscal is one of my favourite artists. He’s had a go at designing and drawing just about everything from restaurants, logos, packaging, typefaces, magazine covers, comics, textiles and is most famous for the mascot of the Barcelona Olympics, Cobi. He has a wonderful energetic style and bold use of colour and has really left his visual stamp on Barcelona.
Here are a few snaps from the exhibition:

snaps

The exhibiton blog is here with many more (better) photos.

CSI: Little Chef

It looks bad, Horatio

There should probably be a caption or speech bubble here but I couldn’t think of anything other than “battered to death” which isn’t right because it’s more of a lightly crispy crumb coating. Plus he has obviously been cut. I should be a CSI! That pea on the left looks suspicious – book him, Horatio.

nomnomnom

Gravity permitting, this fairy will be winging her way to this year’s Caption for the exhibition and auction. Potato-faced scrubber/British female role-model Jordan was on the TV at the time, which may have influenced this drawing.

Speaking of monsters:

Monsters!

I recently bought a book collection of David Weidman‘s work and really love those clashing 60s/70s colour schemes and the way he layered colour. Groovy.

Lastly, I was on the train listening to a family who were off to see Oliver! so ended up drawing Oliver and nasty Mr Sykes:

Oliver and Bill

Almost caught up with myself!

Boogie Cat Wants to Dance

Boogie Cat!

It is hard to draw a cat moon-walking.

What else have I been drawing lately?
Some of my neighbours:

Local People

It’s an interesting mix of types around here. Plenty of people-watching to be had.
More dancing. Slightly more formal this time:

Quickstep!

I had a lightly-boiled egg with soldiers for lunch the other day. Consequently a lightly-boiled egg soldier.

Coming out of his shell

More to come!

Daily drawings catch-up

I’ve been neglecting my daily drawings. Here’s a few to catch up with.

Batboys

The Bat Chaps. Robin was eight years old when he joined Batman fighting crime. Have you hung around any eight-year-olds lately? Not much good when it comes to foiling bank robbers I can tell you. Unless you count vomiting up chicken McNuggets as a super power.

I went to the Isle of Wight last week to visit family and had a walk around Carisbrooke Castle. Much fun and excellent views to be had on the battlements.

Ruins.

I drew a couple of Norman chaps having a dust-up after that:

Calm down, boys.

It put me in a bit a of a fantasy mood:

Geronimo!

Back on track now, I think!