tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37698855311588638952024-03-13T06:00:51.383-07:00standing still in a moving placeself-important navel-gazing from someone who really ought to get out a bit morehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04854701034941124576noreply@blogger.comBlogger387125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3769885531158863895.post-27152734179550222392018-02-02T08:27:00.003-08:002018-02-02T08:28:04.297-08:00abide with me<span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; letter-spacing: -0.11999999731779099px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">today is candlemas, the time of year when a church might perform a little ritual of blessing over the candles that it will use in the upcoming twelve months.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; letter-spacing: -0.11999999731779099px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">maybe in literally-darker times, it's a day that carried a little more significance.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; letter-spacing: -0.11999999731779099px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">still in the world of church stuff, it's also a day when the presentation of the infant christ in the temple is remembered and celebrated. that's when simeon and the prophetess anna recognised him as the future messiah - you may know simeon's song better as the 'nunc dimitis'...</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; letter-spacing: -0.11999999731779099px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">a while back, leeds church institute asked me to think about creating something narrative for candlemas - something that riffed on the themes of that biblical story, but which also explored life as it's lived </span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; letter-spacing: -0.11999999731779099px; white-space: pre-wrap;">in the city here </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; letter-spacing: -0.11999999731779099px; white-space: pre-wrap;">today; and which also examined ideas around rememberance and remembering...</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; letter-spacing: -0.11999999731779099px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">'abide with me' is the result of that commission - three connected comics which tell the story of an adult son visiting his parents, but from different perspectives.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; letter-spacing: -0.11999999731779099px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">someone asked me if it's a sequel to 'how to disappear completely' and i guess that it isn't, not really. it's much wordier, for staters, and there's more of a defined storyline in it [at least, i think that there is]</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; letter-spacing: -0.11999999731779099px; white-space: pre-wrap;">but it does occupy the same world as that earlier comic, and, as with HTCD, i've tried to layer in a lot of ideas and connections and references. so i'm hoping that it'll reward repeated readings and that folk will find their own meanings and interpretations within it.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #1d2129;"><span style="background-color: white; letter-spacing: -0.11999999731779099px; white-space: pre-wrap;">you can buy a set of the three com</span><span style="background-color: white; letter-spacing: -0.11999999731779099px; white-space: pre-wrap;">ics <a href="https://lcileeds.wordpress.com/abide-with-me/" target="_blank">here</a> </span></span>for the bargain earlybird price of just a fiver [plus p&p] </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">and they'll soon be available at the ever-wonderful ok comics too...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04854701034941124576noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3769885531158863895.post-70525614555561392292017-09-23T02:30:00.001-07:002017-09-23T02:30:46.414-07:00press releasehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04854701034941124576noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3769885531158863895.post-65946253267088905552016-12-07T03:03:00.001-08:002016-12-07T03:03:09.126-08:00work in progress from the super secret project. don't tell anyone. shhh.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />http://www.blogger.com/profile/04854701034941124576noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3769885531158863895.post-80200845730909086942016-11-09T10:05:00.001-08:002016-11-09T10:05:17.563-08:00Marchi recently finished reading the third volume of senator john lewis and nate powell's 'March' trilogy.<br />
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it tells the story of the black civil rights movement in the usa, from the first hand perspective of sen. lewis.<br />
it's an often brutal, but inspiring story - i was a bit ashamed that i didn't know more about the history of the movement, and shocked that such appalling injustice was routinely condoned so recently - some of the events retold happened in my lifetime.<br />
the narrative concludes with the inauguration of barack obama - a hopeful conclusion. if you've not read the books, i'd urge you to seek them out, they're really good.<br />
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then a few days ago, alvin hall was on the bbc. he was talking about the rhetoric spouted by donald trump, and about how, if you were a person of colour, or a member of a minority group, there's a there's a chilling and unmissable subtext to that language.<br />
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so when trump talks about making america "great again", i'm wondering if the golden age that he's harking back to is that segregated age... or at least if that's what great chunks of his support are hoping for. he has the backing of the kkk for starters.<br />
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and that's got me thinking about the michael rosen poem that's been doing the rounds...<br />
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'I sometimes fear that<br />
people think that fascism arrives in fancy dress<br /> worn by grotesques and monsters<br /> as played out in endless re-runs of the Nazis.<br />
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Fascism arrives as your friend.<br /> It will restore your honour,<br /> make you feel proud,<br /> protect your house,<br /> give you a job,<br /> clean up the neighbourhood,<br /> remind you of how great you once were,<br /> clear out the venal and the corrupt,<br /> remove anything you feel is unlike you…<br />
It doesn’t walk in saying,<br /> “Our programme means militias, mass imprisonments, transportations, war and persecution." '<br />
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and even if he doesn't turn out to be a fascist demagogue, america has still elected a temperamentally unstable, tax-evading, draft-dodging, philandering, lying, narcissistic, racist, misogynist, sex pest as their commander-in-chief.<br />
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and of course we'll be sending boris johnson over there to do business with him.<br />
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all very depressing.http://www.blogger.com/profile/04854701034941124576noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3769885531158863895.post-73389281918926127782016-07-22T01:20:00.003-07:002016-07-22T01:22:08.171-07:00some work<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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as promised, here's a scan of the finished print that i was hinting at in that last post...<br />
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i made 29 of these, and they vary a lot in quality - they're effectively preparatory pieces for a 'proper', finished design which i'll try to get stuck into this week...<br />
i'll keep a couple, but the rest are just hanging around cluttering up the place, so if you'd like one, just drop me an email - si(at)simonsmithillustrator(dot)co(dot)uk - with your address and i'll stick one in the post... first come first served :-)<br />
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the work is being made for a group show which i'll soon be curating up here in a local church - there's a blog here - http://anddidthosefeetexhibition.blogspot.co.uk/ - if you fancy a look :-)http://www.blogger.com/profile/04854701034941124576noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3769885531158863895.post-87615613342000000402016-01-31T12:43:00.003-08:002016-01-31T12:46:09.602-08:00Blake's 'Jerusalem'<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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...it's been a while :-)<br />
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So here's some images of a thing that I'm working on at the mo...<br />
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It's for a show exploring Blake's 'Jerusalem' (the popular hymn, as opposed to the long form poem) which I'm curating...*<br />
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I'm thinking about some of the elements of the text of that song, and have got hooked up on the line about "my chariot of fire"...<br />
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These four colour reduction prints feature a chair from St. Edmund's, the local anglican church who are hosting the exhibition...<br />
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I'll post a image of the finished print once the final colour (black) has dried properly and i can scan it...<br />
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*(more information about that in the coming months) http://www.blogger.com/profile/04854701034941124576noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3769885531158863895.post-41211218901683635882015-09-10T11:52:00.000-07:002015-09-10T12:03:02.066-07:00new thingit's been a while since i posted, so here's a new thing.<br />
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i've been thinking about the city.<br />
over the past few years i've drawn <a href="https://folksy.com/shops/sismith/collections/197941" target="_blank">people in leeds</a>, and been round <a href="http://www.ayearofbustrips.co.uk/a_year_of_bus_trips/Home.html" target="_blank">various bits of it on various buses</a>; i've drawn <a href="https://folksy.com/shops/sismith/collections/197981" target="_blank">local houses and made prints of them</a>.<br />
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and recently i've been thinking about how i can make those various explorations a bit more joined-up and coherent. a commissioned illustration project that will come to fruition early next year will satisfy some of that for me (and i'll blog about that when it happens) and i'm working on a series of careful digitally painted portraits of leeds folk (that's been really enjoyable, but each image takes a long time to complete...)<br />
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so now i'm also wondering about narrative.<br />
i love a good story, and i want to weave some of that need for narrative into my work - lately i've just not felt that i've got much of a tale to tell. again, that will maybe surface with this illustration job next year.<br />
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in the meantime, this little thing has come about.<br />
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it's a series of lino prints of leeds places/structures that i've been and drawn, some suggested by friends on facebook.<br />
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the text on each is the first line of a song playing on my ipod as i made the drawing or the print.<br />
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it's something that i did with the house prints, though the wording on those weren't necessarily the opening lines of songs.<br />
i like the idea that the first line of a lyric is the beginning of a new story, and i like the way that the image and the words juxtapose to suggest a narrative.<br />
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i also really enjoy the way that each image can link up, put side by side the prints can begin to develop a storyline all of their own, with the suggestion that it's being played out across the city.<br />
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and of course i've always loved imposing my record collection on folk :-)<br />
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the plan is to make and release these prints in sets of maybe ten different designs... i've got these first five done so far.<br />
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i'm treating this as a little project in it's own right, but also maybe as preparatory work for some future stuff, part of something ongoing and a bit more intentional and authored.<br />
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[the lyrics come from songs by paul buchanan, cherry ghost, arctic monkeys, the blue nile and ride]<br />
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<br />http://www.blogger.com/profile/04854701034941124576noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3769885531158863895.post-57249013647199362552015-05-21T08:36:00.001-07:002015-05-21T08:40:06.882-07:00more big heads<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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the life drawings are from a class that me and our eddie have been doing lately - it's run by emma from <a href="http://www.leedscornexchange.co.uk/shops/medium" target="_blank">the medium shop in the corn exchange</a>.</div>
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<br />http://www.blogger.com/profile/04854701034941124576noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3769885531158863895.post-49408682527564173862015-01-22T07:01:00.002-08:002015-01-22T07:01:59.883-08:00another thing......that i'm working on intermittently...<br />
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<br />http://www.blogger.com/profile/04854701034941124576noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3769885531158863895.post-25618164554056528362015-01-05T05:54:00.003-08:002015-01-05T05:56:05.162-08:00trees, trackside.several trees, drawn on a train journey across the pennines last week.<br />
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i'll post more about it when i get time [i've returned home to some tight work deadlines] but in the meantime here's a bit of artwork that i did for the festival, and which has been used on their 'thank you' cards, sent out to all the volunteers who give up their time to make the event happen...<br />
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the festival theme this year was 'travelling light' and the plant in the pic there mimics the shape of the iconic letter g that greenbelt uses in all it's branding...<br />
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<br />http://www.blogger.com/profile/04854701034941124576noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3769885531158863895.post-89953381577194755832014-08-18T07:06:00.000-07:002014-08-18T07:06:49.535-07:00Songs of Praise...tune into <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04g4q44" target="_blank">Songs of Praise</a> at the weekend [24th August] or set your vhs recording devices.<br />
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it's from leeds, and it's all about faith and culture and the arts up here...<br />
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<br />http://www.blogger.com/profile/04854701034941124576noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3769885531158863895.post-40921806843280987052014-08-18T07:02:00.001-07:002014-08-18T07:02:26.210-07:00stocking up...i've just added some stock to <a href="https://beta.folksy.com/shops/sismith" target="_blank">my online folksy shop</a>.<br />
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there's a couple of new 'people of leeds' cards, that tetley's fold up book from my last post, two more barnsley cards and the Raised in Leeds exhibition catalogues...<br />
so plenty to browse...<br />
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go have a look and let me know what you think, and maybe even buy summat while you're there... :-)<br />
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<br />http://www.blogger.com/profile/04854701034941124576noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3769885531158863895.post-7468539754484425972014-07-17T13:50:00.001-07:002014-07-17T13:50:49.712-07:00more messing about, lino-printing fold-up books.so here's another thing that i've been messing about with - making little fold-up books from lino prints.<br />
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this one contains pics of seven people that i observed and drew on visits to the Tetley art space in leeds.<br />
it's a lovely place, well worth a visit.<br />
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i messed up the arrangement of the pages, so what should've been the cover is actually page 2... :-(<br />
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following on from this there'll be a similar fold-up of people drawn on a day out in norwich, one containing prints of some folk seen at the yorkshire sculpture park, and one of shoppers drawn in the trinity shopping centre in leeds.<br />
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I'll also hopefully get around to restocking my <a href="https://beta.folksy.com/shops/sismith" target="_blank">folksy shop</a> before the end of the month, and will include some of these in there when i do.</div>
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meanwhile i bobbed in to <a href="http://www.chirpystore.co.uk/" target="_blank">chirpy's</a> in leeds today and left some more cards and prints with harriet there; so if you're passing, nip in and have a look. i'm especially pleased with these big ready-mounted sets of my first six 'people of leeds' cards... :-)</div>
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I've been messing about drawing in photoshop.</div>
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Here's the original pencil drawing alongside the more finished Photoshop piece [drawn over the top of a scan of the original sketch, direct into the computer using my graphics tablet]</div>
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Photoshop allows you to zoom in and get very detailed - i'm not sure if that helps or hinders the drawing process really, you lose some of the rough edges and the more expressive marks, and the whole thing can start to look a bit smooth.</div>
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