[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":11},["ShallowReactive",2],{"blog-post-gosh-look-at-our-nelson-window":3},{"_type":4,"body":5,"bodyHtml":6,"excerpt":5,"featuredImage":5,"publishedAt":7,"slug":8,"tags":9,"title":10},"blogPost",null,"This was the first part of the \u003Ca href=\"http://www.goshlondon.com/\">Gosh! London\u003C/a> comics shop window project for \u003Ca href=\"http://www.blankslatebooks.co.uk/?s=nelson+week\">Nelson Week\u003C/a>, a scribble on a dinner napkin by our \u003Ca href=\"http://www.blankslatebooks.co.uk/our-books/nelson/\">\u003Ci>Nelson\u003C/i>\u003C/a> editor \u003Ca href=\"http://www.woodrowphoenix.co.uk/\">Woodrow Phoenix\u003C/a>, after we had finished two full days in Leeds at Thought Bubble comics festival. (Well, Woodrow doesn't really scribble, he draws quite carefully.)\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/gosh_nelson_window_6-6c77e79a11.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nAnd here's an excellent video shot by Gosh's \u003Cb>Tom Crowley\u003C/b>! You can \u003Ca href=\"http://www.goshlondon.com/2011/11/nelson-night/\">read all about it over on the Gosh blog!\u003C/a> And do come to \u003Cb>Gosh tonight (1 Berwick Street in London's Soho) at 6pm for our Nelson signing party\u003C/b>, it'll be good fun!\\r\n\\r\n\u003Clj-embed id=\"1289\"/>\\r\n\\r\nI'll post a few more photos from our Monday painting session. Woodrow has posted a bunch more \u003Ca href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/superadaptoid/sets/72157628125918295/with/6394128033/\">on Flickr here\u003C/a>. I was just going to show up at the shop and paint something, but on the train ride in, I thought, hmm, I think I'd like to do a bit of pre-planning. So here's what I sketched on the stretch between London Bridge and Charing Cross stations.\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/gosh_nelson_window_sketch1-ae888a4b8e.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\n\u003C!--more Click here for lots more photos under the cut!-->\\r\nWoodrow was stuck on messy trains from out of town, so I had a chance to grab a muffin in the lovely coffee shop next to Gosh, \u003Ca href=\"http://www.foxcroftandginger.com/\">Foxcroft & Ginger\u003C/a> and work on my Nel sketch a bit more.\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/gosh_nelson_window_sketch2-5e8b38f477.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nWhen Woodrow arrived and Tom at Gosh gave us our supplies, Posca pens, I remembered them well from my mural painting session at Game City (\u003Ca href=\"http://jabberworks.livejournal.com/337389.html\">blog post about that here\u003C/a>) and how much they need shaken to get the paint running. Shake, shake, shake. It turned into a sort of dance session, while \u003Ca href=\"http://hayleycampbell.com/\">Hayley Campbell\u003C/a> tweeted this photo.\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/gosh_nelson_window_5-64ac70927d.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nThen \u003Ca href=\"http://whmorris.blogspot.com/\">Will Morris\u003C/a> arrived, with much more polished preparatory sketches. Will studied on the same MA course at Camberwell art college as I did, a few years later, under \u003Ca href=\"http://www.camberwell.arts.ac.uk/ccwgraduateschool/ccwstaffresearchprofiles/janetwoolley/\">Janet Woolley\u003C/a>, and we're both big fans of her. Will's work is lovely.\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/gosh_nelson_window_sketch4-983348ce8a.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nWe decided the lettering had to come first, before the character paintings. And no one does lettering as well as Woodrow, he's very exacting. \\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/gosh_nelson_window_2-59900edf67.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nI asked him if 'e' was the hardest letter to draw, and he said, no, that 's' is much trickier, getting the two curves just right. \\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/gosh_nelson_window_4-ecfa5b389b.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/gosh_nelson_window_10-8c75a3697d.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nWe were painting on the inside of the window (so passers-by couldn't pick it off) but I did a quick sketch in white on the outside of the window as a guide.\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/gosh_nelson_window_sketch6-5189e737d9.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nWhen \u003Ca href=\"http://jake-art.com/\">JAKe arrived\u003C/a>, here's the sketch he made, drawing straight from the book:\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/gosh_nelson_window_sketch7-32a07ae96a.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nJust like colouring \u003Ci>Vern and Lettuce\u003C/i>, I tackled the white bits first. \\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/gosh_nelson_window_13-f16971f410.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nHere's another view from inside the window. Dusk was encroaching, which made it harder to see the black paint. And the paint wasn't always being kind to me, often when I'd lay it down, it would pick up the paint that was already there, giving the surface a kind of scratchy look when the light shone through it. For some reason, this didn't seem to be happening to Will, his surface looked nice and matte. Ah, well.\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/gosh_nelson_window_14-7bbda6aef5.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nHere's Will, getting on with his grown-up Nel:\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/gosh_nelson_window_3-17e3c8d635.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/gosh_nelson_window_1-a04a4d7a9d.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nWoodrow pointed a visitor to some good books (including \u003Ci>Nelson\u003C/i>) while we were painting.\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/gosh_nelson_window_15-ed8b3132e1.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nJAKe's Nel: \\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/gosh_nelson_window_15-ed8b3132e1.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/gosh_nelson_window_12-494ea14767.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/gosh_nelson_window_11-439b04e747.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nHere's a photo Woodrow took of Will and me:\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/gosh_nelson_window_18-592ce76c15.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nHope to see you at Gosh this evening!","2011-11-25T09:20:00.000Z","gosh-look-at-our-nelson-window",[],"gosh! look at our nelson window!",1776628721008]