Rear Window

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 at sunset as the film has beautiful lighting and it is at its most romantic, I think, as the sun is going down and Grace Kelly arrives and turns on the ridiculously large lamp in Stewart's apartment.

I'm really pleased with how it turned out and it got me to thinking about a little set of film illustrations. Picking out some of my favourite moments in films such as Breakfast at Tiffany's, You've Got Mail - I sense a New York theme coming...

I have a couple more drawings to work on this week alongside my busy day job so fingers crossed I will keep up and post often! You can also check my instagram - @elidillonart

Check back soon. :-)

Eli