Front Page!

March 13, 20192 Comments

There was a nice article posted in the Davis Enterprise today, an interview with me by Tanya Perez, talking about urban sketching and this weekend’s sketchcrawl, among other things. It also has the picture of me in a hard hat on the cover. I didn’t realize that this would be on the cover, so that was a nice surprise. You can pick up a copy (in Davis today) or read it online at the Davis Enterprise website: “Sketcher draws attention to Davis“. Many thanks to Tanya and the Enterprise for the nice article!

your cover’s blown

October 14, 2012Leave a comment

I didn’t post the rest of the Davis Enterprise’s “Welcome to Davis” editions from a couple of weeks back, so here they are. These are big!! Broadsheets, really. Plus they make good curtains as you can see. I’m pretty chuffed to have had this honour, and hope that the people of Davis enjoyed them. Now the Toad Hollow sketch from the ‘Only in Davis’ edition, as I mentioned previously, is pretty small – a few inches up and across. I though you might be interested to see the other originals set against the papers themselves.

For the ‘On the Go’ edition my drawing of one of the Unitrans London double-deckers was used, so here’s a size comparison – the original was about 7″x5″ or so, and in fact if you’re in Davis and want to see it (or buy it) it’s at the Pence Gallery on D Street right now.

For the ‘Our Community’ edition my recent drawing of the Farmer’s Market was used. Incidentally, the sign in the middle has only some of the writing on it because they started packing up when I got to drawing that bit and I missed the rest. I did think ahead though and took a photo beforehand, very smart, but there was a lot of glare so I never could read it all. Doesn’t matter. The fellow standing next to it, he has a passing resemblance to me, because the passer-by that I actually drew was actually wearing a Tottenham t-shirt and stopped to talk for a moment when I said ‘Come on you Spurs!’ So in honour, I actually made this person look like me, though he really didn’t. Most moving people in these in-public-place drawings look generic anyway, as it’s always hard to really capture someone while they’re walking past, though otherwise all of the people that ended up in this one were actually the people stood there. Anyway, I loved how this turned out in the paper, and if that’s you in the drawing, hello there.

And finally, the really small one, which actually translated pretty well large, I thought. I sketched that one lunchtime at the Memorial Union back in 2009, and it took up a third of a page of my Moleskine. So anyway there you are. Many thanks to Tanya Perez at the Davis Enterprise, who does a great job in the Welcome editions, and it was great to be a part if them this time.

have i got newspapers for you

September 23, 20121 Comment

If you’re in Davis – and many of us are – you might have picked up today’s Davis Enterprise. If you did, you might have seen the first of the annual ‘Welcome to Davis‘ editions. I have always enjoyed these, and in the past would usually leave them in our lounge for new students to read and learn fun stuff about our city. This year, these special editions (of which there will be four) feature my sketches of Davis. Today’s paper, the ‘Only in Davis’ edition, has a close-up of one of my Toad Hollow sketches blown up large, and also has a write-up about me on page two. How exciting is that!! I am pretty massively honoured.

Many thanks to Tanya Perez, editor of these excellent editions. Tanya also wrote a lovely article on Thursday (“What’s the greatest talent? The one you don’t have” – see the article here) which made nice mention of me and my sketching, and showed off my phonebox drawing.

These are posted courtesy of the Davis Enterprise. It’s not the first time I’ve been in the paper, there was an article about me back in 2009 (here’s the blog post; I must dig out the article) and a short piece about my show last December, but it’s certainly the most prominent. See also: http://www.davisenterprise.com, and the Davis Enterprise Facebook page, and don’t forget to pick up the other editions this Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday.

base of the enterprise

March 1, 2012March 1, 2012Leave a comment

This is the Davis Enterprise building on G Street. The Enterprise is our local newspaper. I heard a dicky bird say that this building was going to be knocked down; whether that’s the case or not, I figured it was time to sketch it. I took myself down there on my lunchtime a couple of days ago and started scratching away with a pen which was trying to tell me, “I don’t like this paper!” but I was like, “you’ll like it and do as you’re told,” but the pen knew best. It knew that after the fairly simple buildings to the left and middle, I’d have to somehow tackle the one on the right, which I have avoided for years because of the horrible repeated concrete pattern of those blocks. Maybe I should draw a close up. This sketch says enough though.