Some modernists

Ford Madox Ford & Virginia Woolf

More American Writers - C20th Poets

Sylvia Plath and John Berryman

Marianne Moore and Robert Lowell

Decadents

Posting pictures from last year's inktober, I've realised that I didn't post the images from the year before. Here are some pictures of French Poets:

Stéphane Mallarmé and J.K. Huysmans

Paul Verlaine and Arthur Rimbaud

Inktober 2016 4: Hill, Williams & Welby

The great poet and critic Geoffrey Hill died during the summer of 2016. I've read his poetry with a mixture of awe, admiration and mystification since I was a teenager. A boy who was cleverer than me told me that Hill was 'very fine', so I bought a copy of his select poems. I still find odd phrases from his work have a way of popping up my brain from time to time. And, then, of course I drew pictures of him on a dinosaur. Now that he is amongst the immortals, I decided to upgrade his triceratops to a T. Rex. the king (queen?) of monsters.

Then my sister asked me why I had drawn a picture of Rowan Williams riding a dinosaur, so I had to make a drawing of Rowan Williams riding a dinosaur:

And, having drawn a Former Archbishop of Canterbury On A Dinosaur, it only felt right to draw the Current Archbishop of Canterbury On A Dinosaur:

This is more than enough.

Inktober 2016 3 - American Literature Since 1900

Last year I was teaching a course on modern American Literature during Inktober. So I made a series of drawings based on the writers my students were studying.

Zora Neale Hurston          Wallace Stevens

Tennessee Williams              Allen Ginsberg

Elizabeth Bishop              Don Delillo

Toni Morrison                Lionel Shriver

William Gibson

( If you want to see some of the posters that my students made as part of their presentations on this course, you can look through the images on the instagram feed where I record aspects of my teaching.

Inktober 2016 2 - More animals

This second batch of images from last year's inktober is a direct consequence of asking my daughter for ideas for drawings. If you ask me for a flying rabbit, this is what you get:

 And this is a dog on the moon:

 I just can't remember what this was. Better not to ask...

Inktober 2016 1 - Mice in Space

I've neglected this blog for a while, which means that there's a backlog of images from last year's inktober. 

This first batch consists of various animals dressed as astronauts. There are two reasons for this: firstly, my colleague Rob Maslen wrote a story about a mouse in space. Secondly, I asked my daughter for a list of suggestions of things to draw when I was stuck for ideas... 

This final image is, in fact, the first animal astronaut picture I drew as a response to Rob's story....