My friend Linda Sharp has a talent that is just awesome, really one of the true artists I have known in my life, (and I have met a few who were definitely legends...in their own minds) Linda is also a sweet person, I mean in that not sickly sweet fake bs, but someone who speaks little (and in a really small tiny voice, and only big ideas come out. Really hard for a big mouth like me to calm down and listen, but for her I do.
OK, so anyway, before I drone on for ANOTHER damned paragraph (yeah, I can hear you saying OMG will she shut up and get on with it) I do have a story. I was invited to Linda's place on Friday afternoon, and she showed me her latest artwork that she does for North Vancouver Community Players at Hendry Hall.
Now, she has been doing this for years - illustrating their stages, doing the art for their pamphlets etc., and she showed me the leaflet that they had produced with her work.
Sheepishly, she said that what she did was get out a ton of collage material from books magazines etc., and then starts playing around on a blank page, making things work. Then she will use coloured pencils, paint, whatever to bring a continuity to the picture. After that she "just" scans it. (Don't you love these talented people and their "just"s? )
Sounds JUST so simple, but really, totally brilliant have a look at these examples (low res jpegs, but still you can see the talent)
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