Happy Thursday to You, as a naive French school child once sang thinking he was going to pass his English test for singing an English song correctly. Either way, I'm back after one of my ridiculously long pauses.
This is a bizarre, rather shoddy, and ultimately twisted sketch with some pencils I did on a train to Saintes (a French town around an hour or so north of Bordeaux, famous for its various numerous Roman ruins, including a stunning amphitheatre), depicting somewhat inappropriate and cruel minded gift-card designs. I swear that they're all in jest, and that I would never have enough negative energy to send out such deranged gift cards out. If you really pissed me off, you simply wouldn't even get a card in the first place!
A few gouache studies on "The Bremen Town Musicians". A sort of mix of Mary Blair and expressionism, part of their aim is to attempt to capture the underlying Gothic spookiness that the original Grimm stories possess, with a sense of irony thrown in for good measure. The studies are for the scene of the animals standing on one another's back and bursting through the window of a woodland cabin in an attempt to scare away the robber inhabitants. It works, as the robbers wrongly believe they're being attacked by a demon...hence my choice of hellish colours for an otherwise cosy cabin and demonic forms for a bunch of otherwise cute animals.
