NATO Alphabet Exquisite Corpse - Daniel Newbury

Thanks to Daniel Newbury for the first entry in the NATO Alphabet Exquisite Corpse.

D is for Delta

He also asks us where this quote came from...

this may give you a clue

Exquisite Corpse Panel 7

Kerry Bennett, in preparation for her exhibition that opens on Wednesday at The Ridge Club at Hastings Court in Hastings (East Sussex), has completed her panel for the Exquisite Corpse theme of the Blackwing. 

My inspiration came from looking at all of the drawings before on the panel. The hole in the other images, I chose to change it to a crystal ball to see into the future. The black wings, something other than a bird, the interior of my brain with synapses pulsing came up with the above image and then needing something more human. I came up with the idea of human with the cocoon, and then I felt the need for the odd black feather or two. As if the winged creature had just flown away. So I guess, it bring the past, present and the future all together. 

She followed on from Daniel Newbury's panel. 

Kerry's Art Exhibition starts on the 4th of March 2015

Hastings Court "The Ridge Club" within the Care Home

Viewing from 11 am - 4 pm.

On for a couple of months

Solo Exhibition.

Opposite the Church, 

Just before the Crematorium.

Exquisite Corpse Panel 6 (edited and updated)

Daniel Newbury, brother of Simon, has taken the Exquisite Corpse a step further following on from Tim Seelig's panel (see below).

Tim Seelig's Exquisite Corpse panel

Daniel Newbury's Exquisite Corpse panel

Daniel says of his panel, "I went with various inspirations from the previous panels (i.e. the 'hole' from 2,3 & 4. The ornate bust of panel #4 sowed the seed for the stone work/intricacy of the grand conservatory/sanctuary and of course ‪#‎Blackwing‬. Unfortunately 'Blackwing' seems to have turned rather demonic in this particular manifestation). I then just went where my imagination took me and opted for a bit more of a narrative."

Daniel does intricate drawings of other architectural scenes, have a look at his "strokes" of London at his website and where he can also be contacted.

Kerry Bennett - Examples of her work

Kerry Bennett, an artist from East Sussex, whose meandering roots help to create pencil drawn illustrations:

The image of a sadly departed hen and the horns of a satyr

Have a look at her biography 

Waiting for food or singing a note

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder (and the seen)

Just taking a snack

Beware of the gentleman who plays a guitar where the notes turn into birds

Another rodent snacks 

Panel from an Exquisite Corpse

Kerry can be contacted for work, have a look at her contacts page.

Giuseppe Lama - examples of his work

Giuseppe Lama, hails from Italy but uses global inspirations to create marvellous miracles of illustration:

We are lucky that Giuseppe records his process of creation,
have a look at his biography.

Images from the theme of evil musicians

The more sepia-toned version of an evil musician

Once again, the working process that goes into an image, this time of the clock tower

that houses the infamous bell, Big Ben. 

The finished piece

Giuseppe's panel for the Exquisite Corpse based on the theme 

of Blackwing

The creative process for a Satyrnalian 

or even Satyrday embellished "S".

The finished article of the embellished "S".

Giuseppe can be contacted through his webpage. 

Exquisite Corpse Panel 5

In our first regular art project, the collected creatives who use the Blackwing pencil, we bring you the fourth panel by the digital artist, Tim Seelig. Tim exhibits his work on his website. Tim very kindly showed us the detail from his Exquisite Corpse panel in a few days before he revealed the full piece. 

Detail of Tim Seelig's Exquisite Corpse Panel

In both Greek and Roman Mythology, the Harpy was a winged monster, more avian like than Pegasus,  with a human face and it was thought that name meant "snatchers".

The Full Image of Tim Seelig's Exquisite Corpse

When asked for his inspirations and his working on the piece, Tim very kindly wrote the following:

"In term of ideas for my take on the exquisite corpse, I was thrilled to hear from Giuseppe the direction he was going in was taking elements of the previous entries, but he hadn't come up with a Harpy. 

I told him this is what i planned to do (and in fact it's something I'd had in my head from the moment Simon posted his picture). 

Unlike the previous pieces mine started as a small sketch on an A3 pad (drawn with the Blackwing), just to give me an idea of what I was doing in order to compose the Harpy. I then started going through various classical renditions of Harpies via Google and (the) few books I have on Mythology. Most were shown as half women and half bird. But for me, whenever I thought Harpy, I automatically thought of Ray Harryhausen's miniatures from Jason and the Argonauts (bat wings and rough, possibly scaly skin).  I wanted to go down the more traditional route of a bird with a woman's torso and head.  

There were a lot of layers in this before I started merging them in Photoshop. At one point, it was taking up a couple of Gig of RAM. The head, shoulder, and arms used belong to a friend of mine and the latter appendage were used as the feet of the Harpy. The wings took 3-4 hours alone and are a mishmash of ceramic wings from my Mum's garden, crow's wings, raven's wings and painted textures I'd done with acrylics. 

I used a mixture of mouse and Wacom tablet and pen in the composition. The beak and the feathers around the face are taken from a Harpy Eagle, I thought given the name, it was suitably fitting. At some point I may return to this and do a more detailed setting for the backdrop."

Exquisite Corpse Panel 4

In our first regular art project, the collected creatives who use the Blackwing pencil, we bring you the fourth panel by the digital artist, Giuseppe Lama. Giuseppe shows his work on different sites across the web, have a look at his past stuff at Pinterest, Facebook, Behance and his own website. Giuseppe very kindly shows us his process for his Exquisite Corpse panel in a series of shots, before he reveals the final piece. 

Giuseppe lets us into his thinking behind his Exquisite Corpse piece: "I wasn't too sure how to continue the visual narrative of the theme after the previous panels so I decided to take a few key elements from those panels and just give them my own twist. The image is a blend, if you like, of Simon's woman (female bust), Bart's holed wing (the hole in her stomach) and the reptiles very loosely themed to your crocodile, all in one big anthropomorphic monster. The statue-like reference is there to represent the idea of a fetish/symbol of our Exquisite Corpse. The vaguely Corinthian-like capital from which she emerges reminded me of the Greek caryatids in Athens, just to reinforce the idea of a cold piece of marble... Don't ask me why I didn't do any preliminary sketches, I just went for it and "took a line" for a wander on that very same piece of paper

As for the technique, as I mentioned there was a lot of smudging, then pencil shading on top of it, then erasing to obtain areas of light, then repeat the process over and over until I got the smoothness I was looking for.

I hadn't done anything like this for a very long time, last recorded time I did was back in 1999 and produced this: 

(Do have a look at these other images at the link above, they really quite spectacular and spooky - Ed). 

So you can tell my style hasn't really changed or progressed since... One thing I can tell you for sure is that I really had a lot of fun doing it again!

This piece promotes the Blackwing as an extension to, what we presume, Medusa's hairstyle - where snakes, hair follicles and feathers vie for attention. As Giuseppe states on his website, "Religion and pagan rituals coexist to this day, in a chaotic blend of surreal beliefs where messages from the dead are still coming to us in our dreams." It adds so many motifs, classical mythology, sculpture and maybe a hint of Henry Moore's internal spaces. But I leave it to you to make your own mind up, but don't look Medusa straight in the face otherwise you may turn into stone.

It will be interesting to see where Tim goes next with his Exquisite Panel. 

Exquisite Corpse Panel 3

In our first regular art project, the collected creatives who use the Blackwing pencil, we bring you the third panel by the artist and photographer, Simon Newbury. Simon shows his work on different sites across the web, have a look at his past stuff at Pinterest, Facebook and his own website. See if you can find the past echoes of the previous panels.

Exquisite Corpse Panel 3

Simon says about his portrait, "I wanted to continue the narrative and was inexplicably drawn to the  hole in the wing of Bart's winged man. Unsure of the significance of the hole but with the theme of Blackwing, I had to include it, to look through it and wanted to see someone gazing back in sadness at this void and the wing's inevitable uselessness." He used both the Blackwing and the Blackwing 602. Who will be next? Did you find the echo from the first panel? Crocodile Tears.

Exquisite Corpse Panel 2

In our first regular art project, the collected creatives who use the Blackwing pencil, we bring you the second panel by the artist Bartosz Jekiel. Bart shows his work on different sites across the web, have a look at his past stuff at Tumblr and Instagram. Another winged creature. 

Can you see the linking theme, surely I don't have to point it out. Have a good day...

Exquisite Corpse Panel 1

A few days ago, whilst the other creatives waited for their instruments of choice to be delivered, some  of the others wanted to start drawing...here were some of the ground rules:

I have been asked to suggest a few rules or guides for our first foray into drawing with our pencils:

1) Use a pencil to be creative but not rude

2) The creative co-operative is to provide a platform on many social media channels to promote ourselves and our work

3) Four legs good, two legs bad

4) You will be asked to help with the 

4) Our first project within the blog is to create a narrative, one panel per person, based around keyword Blackwing using the concept of the surrealist Exquisite Corpse - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exquisite_corpse(lets see how long the photo stays up before FB deems it too surreal). 

5) Email a photograph of your work to takingaline@hotmail.com

6) Um...any questions

7) I have been kindly asked to start, then Bartosz, then I guess he will pass it on to the next one.

8) I will add the pictures to the blog and don't leave anyone out.

9) I refer you to point 6.

This is my submitted piece, by Peter Elliott, and I will give my biography later:

The first project...

Hello you gang of pencilsmiths, and we have a few more people added to our numbers - today we hold our pencils in the air for the fallen, but we also remember that pencils have the power to change the world. I have been asked to suggest a few rules or guides for our member's first foray into drawing with our pencils:

1) Use a pencil to be creative but not rude

2) The creative co-operative is to provide a platform on many social media channels to promote ourselves and our work

3) Four legs good, two legs bad

4) You will be asked to help with the

5) Our first project within the blog is to create a narrative, one panel per person, based around keyword Blackwing using the concept of the surrealist Exquisite Corpse

5) Email a photograph of your work to takingaline@hotmail.com

6) Um...any questions

7) I have been kindly asked to start, then Bartosz, then I guess he will pass it on to the next one.

8) I will add the pictures to the blog and don't leave anyone out.

9) I refer you to point 6.