Continued from another post, simply an additional selection of illustrations done for Earthwatch an environmental organisation during 1983 to 1993.
Without further comment i let the images speak for themselves. i suggest enlarging them on the screen to view in detail, as the Blogger process unfortunately seems unable to accommodate them 'extra large' without a glitch of overlapping the boundary, which seems rather dysfunctional but just click on the image works even better.
Well there are more, as well as a lot of extremely detailed book illustrations. I've illustrated four published books plus one of my own, the original artwork of which was ultimately stolen and never published.
However, a half dozen colour photocopies of the illustrations are all that remains of that book, so i composed an article around the gestation and saga of that work which can be found on this blog under the title 'The Gypsy Child', posted in 2013. Type that title in the small box at top left if you're curious.
Gypsy Child is also the title of the first song i wrote in the 1960s, which you can also listen to in the music section on this blog, and which inspired the book. This is all very retrospective i know, but i prefer to share stuff of a more intimate nature.
Hopefully a light relief from the all prevailing and ongoing horrendous karma dramas, intrigues, shocking scandals, revelations, leaks, false flags promptly discredited as hoax, mud-slingings, back-stabbings, cover-ups, unnoticed creeping genocides, and sensational fear porn surging through the internet and changing daily but remaining boringly the same, revolution without resolution.
Meanwhile a better future is forever coming soon (sooooon), or 'so on, and so on', which is why it's never present, when was a future ever present? Time, money, and fear. Imagine a gentler world, now there's a challenge, actually a neglected art. Imagination is in the present so it's not just imaginary. In the imaginary future i may share twenty meticulously detailed architecturally accurate drawings of actual castles, but i've done enough for the moment, unexpectedly so, and there i was, talking about artist's block. ~
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Martin Rainbowmaker