O RECADO

 O RECADO (the errand)

These are some illustrations from the second commission I've recently completed for Augusto Canetas.  It was to a pretty loose brief, but Augusto was very happy with it.  I found myself, in using a combination of wet and dry watercolour pencil, exploring the medium as I went, so I am that much wiser for it.  I found myself departing from the established style with the cafe people, which, I suppose, makes for interest.  That the brief and script were both in Portuguese, and the sky, houses, lorry and butcher had to be Portuguese, made for more satisfaction in its doing.

REEFER MADNESS #2

After the dancing girls, the dancing boys.  I took as my starting point a re-screening of a sixties play, Billie Whitelaw, factory, gritty and kitchen-sinky.  Anyway, the heavy rival for Billie's charms jumps from the loading bay and lands withstage-style 'cat-like grace'.  So into the moves - didn't THINK of West Side Story - just banged out some poses, which graduated into Capoeira, using white in the silhouettes.  I don't like the silhouette animations, typically of Romanian folk tales etc., they just seem cold and cheap.  The great thing about a silhouette is that it can expand to show a pose AND contract into - what?  Until it leaps out again. So, anyway, the experiment continues.