[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":11},["ShallowReactive",2],{"blog-post-lucy-knisleys-research-trip":3},{"_type":4,"body":5,"bodyHtml":6,"excerpt":5,"featuredImage":5,"publishedAt":7,"slug":8,"tags":9,"title":10},"blogPost",null,"It's been great having comic artist \u003Ca href=\"http://www.lucyknisley.com/\">Lucy Knisley\u003C/a> staying here in London! Here we are, suddenly deciding to go to Oxford as part of Lucy's research for her graphic novel about Oscar Wilde.\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/mcintyre_lucy_knisley_wilde-b66ab4e0e0.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nLucy has this great way of watercolouring on the move, using a brush with a water reservoir in it.\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/lucy_knisley_train-f6502fa854.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\n\u003C!--more Click here for lots more drawings and photos under the cut!-->\\r\nLucy drew me! Here's the blue pencil version and the inked version:\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/lucy_knisley_sarah_train1-885fe9f409.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nAnd the final painted picture! It's a lovely sketchbook.\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/lucy_knisley_sarah_train2-8f087c8a39.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nHere's a drawing I made at home of Lucy working. People drawing make good life models.\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/mcintyre_lucy_knisley_draw-b325172182.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nWhenever I'm in Oxford, I never know if I'll be able to get into the colleges. But we managed to get into Magdalen College, where Wilde studied. Beautiful buildings.\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/lucy_knisley_magdalen_ox-98094365bf.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nWe caught sight of these Harry Potter Dementor cloaks through a doorway and snapped a couple photos.\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/magdalen_cloaks-7604d8c2b2.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nBut our first stop was the \u003Ca href=\"http://www.prm.ox.ac.uk/\">Pitt River Museum\u003C/a>! I'd done \u003Ca href=\"http://jabberworks.livejournal.com/481574.html\">an event there earlier\u003C/a>, but not had much time to look around. So I jumped at the chance to come along. They have the nuttiest stuff there, I could spend my whole life drawing it. Here's my take on one of the shrunken heads, giving it a Nehru jacket. The head's tiny, but it looks like a couple people I've known.\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/mcintyre_shrunkenhead_pittr-576e1974ca.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nIt'd be so much fun to wear this porcupine fish hat.\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/mcintyre_pitt_rivers_hat-ba3a6886b2.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/mcintyre_pitt_rivers_skull-9f040a3b09.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nThis is so fabulous.\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/mcintyre_pitt_rivers_1-c609210d67.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nKeep an eye on \u003Ca href=\"http://lucylou.livejournal.com/\">Lucy's blog\u003C/a>, \u003Ca href=\"https://twitter.com/LucyKnisley\">Twitter (@LucyKnisley)\u003C/a> and trip \u003Ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/events/455590904483159/\">Facebook page\u003C/a> for more update! Lucy's off to Dublin on the next leg of her trip, then Leeds \u003Ca href=\"http://thoughtbubblefestival.com/\">Thought Bubble comics festival\u003C/a>.\\r\n\\r\nAnd speaking of Dublin, there's a new \u003Cb>link to podcasts from the Mountains to Sea festival\u003C/b> I took part in this September (\u003Ca href=\"http://jabberworks.livejournal.com/504860.html\">original blog post here\u003C/a>). You can listen to quite an involved talk about the business of making picture books, as well as another about writing with Michelle Harrison and Philip Reeve. Good stuff! \u003Ca href=\"http://www.mountainstosea.ie/podcasts.html\">Link here\u003C/a>.\\r\n\\r\n\u003Ca href=\"http://www.mountainstosea.ie/podcasts.html\">\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/m2c_podcasts-271d886fcb.jpg\">\u003C/a>","2012-11-06T08:30:00.000Z","lucy-knisleys-research-trip",[],"lucy knisley's research trip",1776628724403]