My Stuff: Ditchling
27/01/14
I will get better at posting stuff this year.
Maybe.
Towards the end of 2013 I took The Noisy Boys (4 and 2) to Ditchling Museum of Art + Craft.
It was a lovely day out and the village is charming.
The museum itself – less so. After a long closure for renovation, what was once a well presented local museum with lots of information about the area plus a healthy dollop of Art & Crafts history has become an impressive building with a seriously one-note collection that skims the surface of Eric Gil and the A&C movement. It offers nothing for the initiated and too little to engage the uninitiated, but it is early days in the new life of a museum and it is to be hoped that the education and events programme give it some momentum soon.
Anyway, I drew this sketchbook comic about the village and Eric Gill...
Maybe.
Towards the end of 2013 I took The Noisy Boys (4 and 2) to Ditchling Museum of Art + Craft.
It was a lovely day out and the village is charming.
The museum itself – less so. After a long closure for renovation, what was once a well presented local museum with lots of information about the area plus a healthy dollop of Art & Crafts history has become an impressive building with a seriously one-note collection that skims the surface of Eric Gil and the A&C movement. It offers nothing for the initiated and too little to engage the uninitiated, but it is early days in the new life of a museum and it is to be hoped that the education and events programme give it some momentum soon.
Anyway, I drew this sketchbook comic about the village and Eric Gill...
Not sure how I feel about the work of Gill. Pretty certain how I feel about the man!
For that 3rd spread I shamelessly (and very badly) ripped off a pose from the marvellous Cindy & Biscuit comic by the unnecessarily good cartoonist Dan White. I feel worse about doing a bad copy of his drawing than I do any of Gill's work. That probably says something about both artists. Buy one, exploit the other for your typesetting with pirated fonts and think about the dogs...
For that 3rd spread I shamelessly (and very badly) ripped off a pose from the marvellous Cindy & Biscuit comic by the unnecessarily good cartoonist Dan White. I feel worse about doing a bad copy of his drawing than I do any of Gill's work. That probably says something about both artists. Buy one, exploit the other for your typesetting with pirated fonts and think about the dogs...
