recycling

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sketch > pot > sketch, repeat
As a potter I often sketch some design/creature/idea I want to incorporate into a pot. Then I make the pot, and then I can sketch the pot! There’s many a slip ‘twixt cup and lip, but still it’s fun to see the befores and afters. And sometimes I just recycle a drawing into another drawing.. This is from a Dutch/Delft tile; as the crowning ’tile’ on a faux-tile painted back of a shelf; then onto my mug for morning tea.

Two birds on a pitcher. Quick sketch of an Edward William Godwin vase, 1877; Ando Hiroshige, small bird on a branch; pitchers (of pitcher)
Piece by William Morris at the de Young museum, I love the jackal head; and my jackal. It had the dubious distinction of giving at lease one dog serious pause when he noticed it on our mantelpiece.
Rabbit of Mystery, after Rémi Saillard
When we were walking in Alsace in the summer of 2015, I fell in love with a woodcut in the window of a gallery, I think it was in Colmar but it might have been Strasbourg. The artist’s name is Rémi Saillard, and he is principally known for illustrating children’s books. He has a lovely and delicate sense of the surreal. Besides the Wikipedia page linked above he has a website. Rémi, now is the time to ask your forgiveness: I took several photos of your beautiful woodcut and then when I got home, I made my own version of it with white pen on black paper, framed it and hung it where I see it every day. I call it my Rabbit of Mystery, and I love looking at it.
Left: Edward Gorey; Right: bit of Edward Gorey.
Left: Sunset view of the Bay from Tilden. Right: You can’t tell from this photo but there is a tiny sketchbook in the sketch my right hand is making there, and in the tiny sketchbook an even tinier one upon his back to bite him. (Ok, no, not really.)

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