Another new acquisition, in B-format, from 1965. Sumptuously illustrated in faded black and white. Great cover - I love those Stubbs paintings on monotone backgrounds. #pelicanbooks #penguinbooks #bookstagram #bookcover #painting #art #british #georgestubbs #horses #stubbs #bookshopping #secondhand #50p
When toys go all Marxist-critique. #real #seentoday #giftshop #farm #tractor #toy #marxism #marxist #critique #capitalism #agriculture #bizarre
The back cover of The Weirdstone Of Brisingamen, bought today for 50p: pleasantly Peter Doig-ish. #puffinbooks #penguinbooks #pelicanbooks #bookcover #bookcoverdesign #backcover #painting #blue #peterdoig #art #artist #childrensbooks #vintage #1960s #design
ABBA lyric writing session for ‘Fernando’, day one. #abba #pop #popsong #lyrics #fernando #70smusic #music #comics #drawing #1970s #bishmillar #hitsingle #sweden #swedish #eurovision
More drawing/painting this afternoon when rain forced us indoors to the Standard Designs Summer House (just a brisk half-mile walk from the Mansion, though usually I like to take the helicopter) #iamnotnoeledmonds #painting #drawing #watercolour #pencil #watercolor #aquarelle #pencil #sketch #umbrella #parasol #rain #summer #blackandwhite #artist #artistsoninstagram #etsy #etsyseller #weather #relax
I did a drawing of musique concrète pioneer Pierre Henry, who recently popped off to the big studio in the sky. #pierrehenry #music #musique #musiqueconcrete #french #electronicmusic #drawing #sketch #pencil #adobephotoshopsketch #studio #recording #1940s #1950s
I really enjoyed the Giacometti show at @tate Modern - the first room is wow. Quite a bold move to print the catalogue in, er, purple. #printing #catalogue #exhibition #artist #modernart #giacometti #modernist #sculpture #painting #forties #fifties #tate #tatemodern #london
Re-watching James Burke’s 1980 TV series about perception ‘The Real Thing’, replete with v. Hipgnosis/Dali imagery. Watched it when I was a kid and loved it. It’s still great in that idiosyncratic 70s-early 80s BBC way. #jamesburke #therealthing #tv #dali #salvadordali #imagery #hipgnosis #pinkfloyd #recordcover #albumart #bbc #documentary #perception #mind #1980 #science
Busy turning this stack of assorted wonderment into yer actual art today. #printmaking #print #art #typography #graphicdesign #books #bookshelf #shelfie #bookstagram #reading #penguinbooks #pelicanbooks #poetry #poetrycommunity #etsy #etsyseller #photography
Gone shopping for an hour #Schopenhauer #penguinbooks #pelicanbooks #bookcover #design #philosophy #german #graphicdesign #typography
Art Prog Schedule Alert! The ‘Made In Chelsea’ version of David Hockney’s early '70s is on TV tonight on the tiny London Live channel. It’s great/weird (the film, that is). #davidhockney #tv #film #abiggersplash #abiggersplashmovie #art #painting #film #1970s #70s
Well that’s how I plan to start my 1961, anyway. #eaglecomic #annual #1961 #sixties #comics #british #graphicdesign #typography #vintage #dandare #eagle #theeagle #new
Shiny Pollocks. Found this in the West Wing of the Standard Designs Memorial Library today: a Jackson Pollock catalogue from NYC in 1964. Check out the very Pop Art cover. #jacksonpollock #catalogue #exhibition #newyork #nyc #1964 #sixties #silver #abstract #painting #gallery #art #popart #andywarhol #marlborough #books #bookcover
Not quite sure who this chap is or was - let’s call him Mr Early 1930s - but I drew him today in a effort to convince myself not to buy a iPad Pro & Apple Pencil at a cost of £gazillions, and instead enjoy the occasional randomness of my £25 Adobe Ink stylus with my iPad Mini. So far, so good. #portrait #sketch #drawing #pencil #ipad #ipadpro #ipadmini #applepencil #adobesketch #blackandwhite #1930s
Happy birthday to Franz Kafka, who would have been 134 today. (See the link in my bio for this print) #franzkafka #kafka #birthday #writer #czech #author #anniversary #portrait #drawing #penandink #inkwash #print #printmaking #etsy #etsyseller #etsysellersofinstagram
Super-8 movies from the v engaging #intotheunknown show at the @barbicancentre right now. Really worth visiting if a bit all over the place. #scifi #horror #super8 #film #oldstyle #london #exhibition #gallery #thingstodo #dayout #movies #props #geekout #fun (at Barbican Centre)
