Books, Bookshops and Creatives - edited and updated

Today (the 5th of March 2015), although you may be reading this on another day, 

is World Book Day.

So a quick question to our collection of creatives

and other creatives, 

"What book(s) has(have)

helped you as a creative?"

Simon Newbury's choice of two books

50 Portraits by Gregory Heisler

Norman Rockwell's America

Grant Morrison & Dave McKean's Arkham Asylum

Daniel Newbury chooses

The Myth of Sisyphus by Albert Camus

Daniel states that this is "more of a philosophical treatise (and not so much an inspiration for my artwork as such) but nonetheless an inspiration in other ventures; the absurd nature and the futility of human existence.

Bartosz Jekiel looks to the work of
Eldridgevicius, Giger, McKean, Muth, Pratt, Starowieyski, Williams
but it's more of the actual experience that helps.

Eduardo Alvarado shares Bartosz's thoughts on using books for creativity, the actual experience helps. But if pushed, Eduardo chooses
The Catalogue of the Complete Drawings of Gustav Klimt in three volumes by Alice Strobe

Egon Schiele-Dallo schizzo by Christian M. Nebehay

The Marat/Sade Journals by Barron Storey

Peter Elliott chooses the Giles Annuals from the 40's to the 90's, 

each picture was a panorama of cartoon elegance with great caricatures

of people, politics and society

and Dave McKean's Cages

the go-to book in case you get artist's block.

A few friends are easing books into the wild, be they electronic

or stores where books sleep:

Igor Goldkind has created and given form to a collection of art, music and poetry 

entitled Is She Available? The ebook becomes available on March the 17th.

In the meantime, have a listen to My Heart Is...and...I Am The Darkness

Wendy Farrow uses her collection of images of the Parisian architecture 

to create Par Ici

Another friend is working on opening

a Book Shop in Battle, 

if you can help him out, it would be great. 

More shall come as the answers come forward...
enjoy a book...
read a book...

The Shrove Tuesday pictures

Last week, I suggested pictures base on the theme of

 Shrove Tuesday, 

Kerry Bennett

Mardi Gras, 

Laurie Brook Summers

Pancake Day 

Peter Elliott

or Fat Tuesday.

Exquisite Corpse Panels on a theme of Blackwing - updated

The surreal exercise of the Exquisite Corpse seen here at around 0:25 - 0:30 seconds of the Luna Trailer by the artist and film director Dave McKean - some other images are interspersed throughout the trailer (DVD and Blu Ray coming out at the end of February 2015, available here).

(C) Dave McKean and Barron Storey

Peter Elliott

Simon Newbury

Bartosz Jekiel

Giuseppe Lama

Detail - Tim Seelig

Tim Seelig

Daniel Newbury

Kerry Bennett

Evil Musicians not that all musicians are evil

After suggesting that we do drawings based on evil musicians as Peter is in a production of The Ladykillers at The Stables Theatre in Hastings, we bring you the following:

Peter Elliott

Giuseppe Lama's Progress

Giuseppe Lama

Giuseppe Lama

Bartosz Jekiel

Kerry Bennett

Daniel Newbury

Satyrday - our contributions - part two

As Satyrday comes to an end, we look at our other creatives Satyr'ical characterisations:

Patryk Hardziej gave us the Satyr with drink in hand as he heads to town for the night. 

The Satyr, I mean, not Patryk or maybe both. Can we also welcome our new

creative, he is awaiting his pencils.

Kerry Bennett brings us a chicken possibly on the head of a satyr, 

quickly drawn before catching the train.

You'll get to recognise this satyr, he is slowly going off the rails 

on this Satyrday night.

Simon Newbury plays with manipulates to bring a mythical mosaic

With a Guinness and a lobster, his Satyrday night

gets worse...

Satyrday - our contributions - part one

Our creatives were given the subject of Satyrday - a portmanteau of the words Saturday and Satyr (the mythical half man creature that the Greeks had given horse features and the Romans changed to goat features). What would they bring to the table? See below:

Giuseppe Lama shot the process of his Satyrday embellished "S" letter with the final shot below. 

This started the ball to roll and Bartosz combined his love of the Quay Brothers film

Instititute Benjamenta and satyrs.

Peter Elliott then created a rough working drawing of a chubby satyr.

Then Daniel Newbury, one of recent enrolled creatives, produced a hint of Twin Peaks.

Following with Tim Seelig's satyr profile. 

What does Saturday mean to you?

Just a quick scribble...

...for Monday

Also drawn, by Peter Elliott, after looking at some of Chris Riddell's, the artist behind Russell Brand's Pied Piper, Tumblr posts. Have good Monday.

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: