[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":11},["ShallowReactive",2],{"blog-post-lino-cut-portrait":3},{"_type":4,"body":5,"bodyHtml":6,"excerpt":5,"featuredImage":5,"publishedAt":7,"slug":8,"tags":9,"title":10},"blogPost",null,"Stuart and I have had a couple house guests the past couple days, \u003Ca href=\"http://www.lucyknisley.com/\">Lucy Knisley\u003C/a> and \u003Ca href=\"http://www.philipreeve.blogspot.co.uk/\">Philip Reeve\u003C/a>. It's great having people around who love drawing, and don't mind posing for drawings, either. I drew one of Philip that didn't turn out very well, but he asked if I was going to turn it into a lino cut print, and I managed to do this one quite quickly:\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/philip_reeve_lino_portrait-9b3c84de7f.gif\">\\r\n\\r\nHere's the print, and the inked linoleum block. It's the picture in reverse; basically, a big rubber stamp. \\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/philip_reeve_lino_block-037e7431b5.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\n\u003C!--more Click here for lots more under the cut!-->\\r\nNeither picture looks exactly like Philip - he thinks it looks like the actor Geoffrey Rush - but I don't mind so much with the lino cut print, because they never look like exact portraits anyway. Here's the drawing I based the print on:\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/philip_reeve_pre_lino-6e4a7881aa.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nAnd here's Philip (without his specs) at the \u003Ca href=\"http://www.tripadvisor.co.uk/Restaurant_Review-g186338-d1986778-Reviews-Regency_Cafe-London_England.html\">Regency Cafe\u003C/a> in Pimlico with writer/fanboy \u003Ca href=\"http://sarwatchadda.blogspot.co.uk/\">Sarwat Chadda\u003C/a>. Sarwat brought along some of Philip's books for him to sign, and said he owed his own writing of Young Adult books to having read books by both Philip Reeve and Philip Pullman and then thinking, \u003Ci>Ah, this is something I really want to do.\u003C/i> If you read the Mortal Engines books (or \u003Ca href=\"http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=predator+cities\">Predator Cities\u003C/a> in the USA), I'd recommend either starting with \u003Ca href=\"http://www.philip-reeve.com/fevercrumbbooks.html\">\u003Ci>Fever Crumb\u003C/i>\u003C/a> or \u003Ca href=\"http://www.philip-reeve.com/predatorcities.html\">\u003Ci>Mortal Engines\u003C/i>\u003C/a>. Philip's Arthurian book, \u003Ca href=\"http://www.philip-reeve.com/arthur.html\">\u003Ci>Here Lies Arthur\u003C/i>\u003C/a> is also a cracking good read (and won the Carnegie Medal). \\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/sarwat_chadda_philip_reeve-110807b026.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nWe went out to Chelmsford, Essex, to meet up with \u003Cb>Nikki Gamble\u003C/b> who runs the \u003Ca href=\"http://www.justimaginestorycentre.co.uk/\">Just Imagine story centre and bookshop\u003C/a>, and these guys interviewed Philip, while I chatted with Nikki and illustrator-writer \u003Ca href=\"http://www.janfearnley.com/\">Jan Fearnley\u003C/a>.\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/reeve_justimagine-97bc7fbff3.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nA few doodlings from the day:\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/chelmsford_signings-6227364ec6.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nMeanwhile, Lucy Knisley was doing some essential research on her book about Oscar Wilde, taking my hat and a friend out for tea at Wilde's old haunt, the Savoy Hotel. She also managed to meet Stephen Fry after seeing him perform in \u003Ci>Twelfth Night\u003C/i> at The Apollo; how cool is that! She left for Dublin today, so Ireland, you're in for a good time. You can follow Lucy's trip on \u003Ca href=\"http://lucyknisley.tumblr.com/\">her Tumblr page here\u003C/a>. \\r\n\\r\n\u003Ca href=\"http://lucyknisley.tumblr.com/\">\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/lucy_knisley_stephen_fry-c413eb5172.jpg\">\u003C/a>\\r\n\\r\nThe three of us went to see \u003Ca href=\"http://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-britain/exhibition/pre-raphaelites-victorian-avant-garde\">\u003Ci>The Pre-Raphaelites\u003C/a>\u003C/i> exhibition at the Tate Britain, where I spotted this lovely 1896 \u003Ci>Works of Geoffrey Chaucer\u003C/i> by Kelmscott Press, a collaboration between William Morris and Edward Burne-Jones. \\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/morris_jones_chaucer-81a9e0b863.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nAnd we saw some lovely window displays in the city centre, including these on New Bond Street, featuring \u003Ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yayoi_Kusama\">Yayoi Kusama\u003C/a>.  \\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/yayoi_kusama_london_2-bc93a3e0ff.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/yayoi_kusama_london_3-b0ccfe79a9.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/yayoi_kusama_london_1-f56a2b701b.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nAnd a cat and canary on Conduit Street:\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/canary_cat_window-e71790d5a0.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nI'm hoping to do another lino cut portrait, of Lucy; fingers crossed I'll get the time. It was great getting to hang out with her in London and I can't wait to see the comics that come out of her trip.\\r\n\\r\nTonight's plan: a \u003Cb>Comica talk by Mary & Bryan Talbot\u003C/b> (Foyles Charing Cross, 6:30pm, \u003Ca href=\"http://www.comicafestival.com/index.php/festival/festival_detail/talbots\">details here\u003C/a>), then the \u003Ca href=\"http://inkpluspaper.com/2012/10/issue-3/\">launch of The Strumpet and ink+PAPER\u003C/a> at Orbital Comics. And tomorrow I'll hit Comica \u003Ca href=\"http://www.comicafestival.com/index.php/site/news/come_to_comica_comiket_fall_2012\">Comiket\u003C/a>! That will be fab; lots of chances to buy amazing (and affordable!) handmade books and prezzies and meet their creators.\\r\n\\r\n\u003Ca href=\"http://www.comicafestival.com/index.php/site/news/come_to_comica_comiket_fall_2012\">\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/comica_comiket_nov11-17ac7675e0.jpg\">\u003C/a>","2012-11-09T16:27:00.000Z","lino-cut-portrait",[],"lino cut portrait",1776628724412]