day 283 – four books I have drawn
Posted: September 4, 2011 Filed under: nigel peake, Uncategorized Leave a comment »
Books of drawings about homes, maps, sheds and a week in a cabin in Norway.
day 282 – four stationary packets
Posted: September 3, 2011 Filed under: nigel peake, Uncategorized Leave a comment »
Stationary stores are wonderful, especially in places away from home.
day 281 – four bounty hunters
Posted: September 2, 2011 Filed under: collectibles, nigel peake, objects, Uncategorized Leave a comment »
With thanks to Ben Burtt and Ralph McQuarrie the Star Wars movies were a joy to watch.
The original figures are beautifully made, the proportions and texture as they should be.
day 280 – four paint boxes
Posted: September 1, 2011 Filed under: nigel peake, Uncategorized Leave a comment »
These are some of the paints that I use at my desk or when I am travelling.
I use them until there is nothing left, so that some last for years.
day 279 – four jazz records
Posted: August 31, 2011 Filed under: nigel peake, objects, Uncategorized Leave a comment »
I draw to music all the time.
Here are four of many that I enjoy from time to time.
Songs and melodies are good companions to making work.
day 278 – four George Simenon Maigret books
Posted: August 30, 2011 Filed under: nigel peake, objects Leave a comment »
“No one noticed what was going on. No one suspected that a drama was being played out in the waiting room of the small railway station where only six depressed looking passengers were waiting, amid the smell of coffee, beer, and lemonade.” (Maigret and the hundred gibbets)
Within the green covers, on the yellow freckled pages and held together by the almost broken spines, the Parisian detective stories are told.
day 277 – four cricket bats
Posted: August 30, 2011 Filed under: nigel peake, objects, Uncategorized Leave a comment »
When I was younger all I use to do was play cricket. Practise took place on Monday night and matches Saturday and Sunday. It is a game of nuances, routines, patterns and traditions. I never tire of it. The cricket bat is central to the game, often made of willow. The bats used to be prepared with linseed oil, repaired with fibre glass tape and the surface sanded. There was an art to it. At the end of the season the blade of wood visually held the runs and edges of the previous months.
