Wednesday, 9 September 2015

Jonny Ives and submissions for St Just's Freedom Exhibition

With the summer holidays over it's back to the grind.
 I thought I'd put up this caricature I painted in the summer of Jonathan Ives editor of the Leisure review http://www.theleisurereview.co.uk/

I meet Jonny through our daughter's ballet class where afterwards the children clamber into the.... basket?... of his bike and he cycles up the hill to the cafĂ© where they all run riot and let off some steam. I thought about a more humorous portrayal at first, thanks to some of the Photos Jonny kindly passed on to me, but decided against it as it wouldn't be very flattering.

 
This took 3 and a half  hours of work in the end.
 
Next is a submission for St Just http://www.st-just-humour.fr/
They're mainly pieces I 'd already put up but there are some new ones I specifically did on the theme they'd set  'Freedom'
 
I took inspiration from Norman Rockwell's illustrations of Franklin D. Roosevelt's 4 freedoms:
Freedom of Speech
Freedom to Worship
Freedom from Want
Freedom from Fear ..
 
and added and over bearing leader watching in the background.