elidillonart

I like lines. Mainly black lines. Lots of ink and felt tip pen. I also like drawing buildings. At the moment I'm working on a few personal projects alongside normal work. One is a poster of York's architecture; a sort of trail of old buildings to take you on a wandering path inside the walls. I think one of the posters will focus on places of worship as there are so many beautiful buildings in York that are either still in use or converted for another purpose. One poster will just focus on brilliant buildings; giving a bit of history and information about them. Here are some of the pictures and sketches I have been working on.

After finishing 'Rear Window' yesterday I had a little bit of spare time so I drew my very late breakfast. I like it very much. It's fried tofu with avocado, sun-dried tomatoes and pesto. This is quite a busy week but I have high hopes that project 'Films of New York' of which the first is 'Rear Window' will make some progress. I have also bought some new pens and drew a lovely old cinema in York which I need to colour. I love colouring. It's my favourite part. I also made a very successful vegan bread and butter pudding last night, with butterscotch sauce and ice-cream. It was dreamy. So dreamy that it may be my full dinner tonight because it's Monday and something has to set me up for the stressful week ahead. May as well be fake butter. Onto the rest of the evening I go! Bye, come back soon! Doorway to my instagram

Hello! Welcome to my new blog - elidillonart. I thought I would start with an illustration I've worked on for a couple of day, here and there over the last two weeks. Rear Window, with Jimmy Stewart and Grace Kelly (directed by Alfred Hitchcock) is one of my absolute favourite films. Especially when it's raining. I saw it for the first time when I lived in Abu Dhabi. It was film night and I was transfixed by this murder mystery. I love James Stewart anyway however this was the first time I had seen a Grace Kelly picture and I thought she was wonderful. Wonderful. It is the ultimate set for earwigging, nosy neighbouring and each little apartment is a story in itself, it's own little world with it's own star centre stage and you have nothing to do over the course of the film but peer in and become absorbed by their lives. I wanted to try a larger illustration in ink, with a little more depth than the drawings of buildings that I normally do. I wanted to draw it...