Author: Richard

First Day, Royal College of Art, 1972

greenhouse rough
Rough for my Greenhouse Mural, an elaborate identification chart for tropical birds that my tutor John Norris Wood kept in the college greenhouse. Yes, that is the Royal Albert Hall in the background, the Greenhouse straddled two floors at the top of the College’s Kensington Gore building.

Saturday 30 September 1972

We set off at 8.30 or so and whisked down the M.1. to Linnie & Dave’s

house in Southall
My sister Linda and David’s first home in Southall

Where we had lunch before going and putting my things in my room at Evelyn Gardens.

Student accommodation
My room on the first floor at 14 Evelyn Gardens, London SW7

Then Shopping – Mother bought a bright Red Trouser Suit.

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Fresco G Pen

G pen drawing, Fresco

Trying the new Manga brushes, including the vector G pen in Adobe Fresco.

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Fontself

A rainy afternoon and I had an update from Fontself, so decided to give it another try. New features include an easy way to fill in outlines and to draw perfect vector shapes. I’ve gone for my usual wobbly style, although I did try out the method for drawing smooth shapes on the ‘C’.

Fontself alphabet

On previous occasions I’d used Fontself to make fonts from alphabets I’d drawn on paper or in Adobe Illustrator. It’s a whole lot simpler drawing in the Fontself app on the iPad.

Look forward to experimenting with it a bit more, now that I’ve got into the way it works.

Cod

cod

Cod, Gadus morhua, washed up amongst the kelp from the strandline on Druridge Bay near Hauxley, Northumberland.

cod

Pen and Ink

Sketches from Newmillerdam, Harrogate and Queen Street, Horbury, in my pocket-sized A6 landscape Seawhite Travel Journal. Lamy and TWSBI EcoT pens, De Atramentis ink (a mix of brown and black as both were running out).

Hauxley

lagoon Hauxley

Another sketchbook page from our short break in Northumberland and it’s another view from a table in a cafe overlooking a lagoon in a restored landscape, this time at the Lookout Café at the Hauxley Wildlife Discovery Centre at the northern end of Druridge Bay.

Red admiral and speckled wood butterflies rested on willow and bramble in the afternoon sun in a sheltered corner at the foot of the wooded slope below the Wildlife Discovery Centre.

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Hauxley Wildlife Discovery Centre