robynwilsonowen.bsky.social
Illustrator and author repped by Neil at Spring Literary and published by Andersen, Egmont/Farshore, Boxer and Tiny Owl
Illustration tutor at Falmouth University and The Open University.
Tutor in creativity for Cam Uni online.
www.robynwilsonowen.com
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Thanks Nicki x
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What’s the theory?!?
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So obviously I thought I’d drive myself mad trying to be Picasso for this rough (normally I’m trying to be Van Gogh so at least it was a different variety of frustration) the light and love generated is mutual in my version though. Wouldn’t it be lovely to be Picasso eh?!
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The Arrival by Shaun Tan is really interesting as it is wordless, but uses invented text to help express the experience of someone arriving in a new country.
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There’s just something special about glimpsing inside a sketchbook isn’t there.
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I do love drawing a tree, only a little tiny bit less than I love drawing a hedge.
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Definitely. I always like to know where my characters live.
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Thank you!
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I’m glad, thank you!
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Thank you! It’s one frame from a little wordless sequence, will post them all sometime.
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Thank you!
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I think so long as it’s not a starter pack titled ‘awful smelly meanies’ it’s fine?
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Seeing as so many people seem to like these, it would be rude not to let you know you can buy a house portrait by me here :-)
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Thank you!
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I’m sure yours are wonderful. In these I’m working through an obsession with how surface (flat tonal shapes) and line interact… trying in my sketchbook to tonally solve my problems with colour - which in my drawings is always the surface interacting with my dip pen line… forever a work in progress.
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Ah, thank you. That’s so lovely to hear.
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Would be very interested to hear an American view on my work…
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I have done two house moves where we had to pack a stick collection… sticks are important!
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If you’re looking for Christmas presents, this and other original drawings are available in my shop… robynwilsonowen.bigcartel.com
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Ha! I’ve used that ref since Year 9 English lit with Mrs Beddow.
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On Twitter you’re like my Gabriel Oak - everytime I look you’re there. Had to visit your profile to see you here… there must be a ‘see more cod’ setting I can adjust.
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I teach a 2.5hr evening life drawing class, we have a 15min break half way through. Last week one of the students waltzed back in munching a pork pie saying his wife mustn’t know.
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Yeay!
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That is my default…
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Small bits of acting things out - curling up in a ball to be a seed/to go to sleep/to give yourself a hug. Stretching up tall to grow or wake up or be an enormous wave…
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I do picturebooks…. Ask them questions… can you spot x? What time of year do you think this is? What would you do if you were them? What do you think x will say?
Also get them to join in with any soy effects, a blowing nose, a roar, a whoosing river, the rain…
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:-)
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Ha! Yes :-) it’s my fantasy bookshop window - populated with books by me and my friends, and a few old favourites.
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Oh fabulous! I do primary school visits.
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“Friends isn’t bad you know, friends is quite something” darling fi…. Love it to bits.
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It’s like a period drama now… but I just love it. My comfort blanket.
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I have. Can’t escape Jo ;-)