∆ GOING UP THE COUNTRY ∆
Photography: Amanda Leigh Smith ∆ Model: Thalia Kelly ∆ Styling: Tashina Hill ∆ Assistant: Ginger McCabe
Shirts: Mate Vintage ∆ Jewellery: Cobracult ∆ Leather bags: New Church ∆ Painted skull: Medicine Collective
See the whole shoot here.
Two years ago, I was sitting at my parents' dining room table, inking in painstaking fine lines, leaning over a sketchbook until the muscles in my neck started seizing up and giving me migraines. I was watching the clock to see how late I leave it before I got up from the table and went to work.
I was totally compulsive. I had to finish a new work every day. Some of them were starting to come out well, I thought, and every now and then my hands would accurately interpret what my head wanted to communicate.
Despite my compulsion to draw all the time, I didn't know why I was doing it. Or what I was trying to make. Or where I wanted to go with it. There was a sense of inertia that I very much still feel, the need to just keep creating at any cost.
But I can say one thing for sure. Two years ago, in the late-winter dawn of my parents farm, I would not have ever thought that my artwork would be out in the world, being worn by people I'll never meet or see, and -- no less -- being shot by one of my favourite photographers. It's a huge privilege and honour to share in such an amazing creative community, and I guess it's part of the why, what and where I've been trying to get to for the past few years.
I was totally compulsive. I had to finish a new work every day. Some of them were starting to come out well, I thought, and every now and then my hands would accurately interpret what my head wanted to communicate.
Despite my compulsion to draw all the time, I didn't know why I was doing it. Or what I was trying to make. Or where I wanted to go with it. There was a sense of inertia that I very much still feel, the need to just keep creating at any cost.
But I can say one thing for sure. Two years ago, in the late-winter dawn of my parents farm, I would not have ever thought that my artwork would be out in the world, being worn by people I'll never meet or see, and -- no less -- being shot by one of my favourite photographers. It's a huge privilege and honour to share in such an amazing creative community, and I guess it's part of the why, what and where I've been trying to get to for the past few years.
QUICK SKETCHES ...
...Just quickly, a couple of sketchbook pages.
I did a time lapse/stop motion of the second piece on Instagram (@raychponygold)... Which is always fun.
LOVE THINGS: WINTER BLOOMS
1. Collecting the few winter blooms I can find...
2. Car-scrawls and road-trip sketchbooks -- as well as comfiest-ever Somedays Lovin jeans.
3. My mum has an incredible succulent collection, and I'm starting a collection of incredible Spell and the Gypsy Collective rings // A recent favourite.
4. I read the Virgin Suicides and, sure, the movie was beautiful, but the book totally kidnapped my mind and I lived deep in suburban 70s Detroit for a few days // Annnnnd I drew some stuff, and on my hands.
5. One of my favourite recent illustrations -- Lavender // And as a screen print, which I'm really exciting about... Good things are on the way.
2. Car-scrawls and road-trip sketchbooks -- as well as comfiest-ever Somedays Lovin jeans.
3. My mum has an incredible succulent collection, and I'm starting a collection of incredible Spell and the Gypsy Collective rings // A recent favourite.
4. I read the Virgin Suicides and, sure, the movie was beautiful, but the book totally kidnapped my mind and I lived deep in suburban 70s Detroit for a few days // Annnnnd I drew some stuff, and on my hands.
5. One of my favourite recent illustrations -- Lavender // And as a screen print, which I'm really exciting about... Good things are on the way.
TEXAS RADIO
I've been meaning to make another one of these for a while, and here it is.
I always find it fun to watch a piece grow in time lapse. I guess it also gives some little clues about how my mind interprets what I'm drawing. It also makes me nervous, which results in funny hand tics and pencil clicking.
I'll be putting this original up online soon, too, and hopefully some others that I've been accumulating for too long.
I hope you're all set for another big week of good fortunes and, failing that, repair schemes.
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