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Someone today described my earlier work ‘A House in Cradley‘ as an “inside-out house”, and this could easily describe the idea I have for my new drawings. I thought I’d share a little of the work in progress on this one. I don’t tend to do too many preliminary sketches, and jot as many ideas down in words as I do in images. Here (below, left) are some of my notes relating to the new project.

Looking back through my diary I see that the idea has been with me for a few months now, in various forms. It’s a project which has had to stay on the back burner while I set up my studio, but it’s nice to have it there simmering away and developing over time. There are pages and pages of these jottings, here are a couple of them:

I’m currently working on the window which will open into the sky on the new drawing (right hand photos). This is one of the sketches for the window: as you can see I’m using a dolls house window as a model here, but I’ll probably also be photographing some of the sash windows in my house, too. Somewhere in there I want to get lots of woodgrain, and perhaps some fingerprints too, but I’m not quite sure how yet.

Given the amount of material I already have in my art diary it’s very likely I’ll be working on variations of this drawing for a considerable time, and produce many works from it. At the moment my plan is to make the first piece a stipple drawing, but I am considering also sketching in the window in the sky with pen and ink, as well as other ideas. I’m also planning on building some ‘sets’, using dolls house furniture and dolls house windows, the ideas for which you may just be able to make out in the pages from my diary.

To see some of the earlier photographs which will be used in this project, take a look at the chair on Clee Hills post. 

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