Tag Archives: thatchers

Hmm, this spread looks way too busy, but that’s sort of the point, so I guess it’s okay. I decided to make perspective kind of irrelevant, too. Maybe that’s just because I’m tired. The radio’s just played the Shipping Forecast … Continue reading →

I was going through some of my stuff with my friend Layn yesterday and found the Thatchers story I was working on awhile back, the one that dlasky kept encouraging me to finish. So I’m going to try to plug … Continue reading →

(You might remember this picture from earlier. I just had to give it a tweak and it fit right in.) I miss the original colours, though.

Managed to do one more page today. I’m still playing around with the colouring. I’ll probably have to go with photocopying in black and white, but it’s nice to look at a bit of colour.

Thank you dlasky for giving me a push to get going again on my thatching family. I think I’m going to make a hybrid comic / 36-page picture book. I’ve done thumbnails of the story and now I’m going to … Continue reading →

Here are some potential projects for my family’s expanding thatch empire. The diagrams are somewhat shaky, since I drew them on the train ride back from Bexhill-on-sea. (We had just finished thatching the De La Warr Pavilion.)

Thatching is the new knitting. My iron ladies have done me proud again, this time on London’s Gherkin. No. 23 daughter led the team. No 19 had to go home two days early with a bad case of whooping cough, … Continue reading →

I am so proud of my thatching girls (see earlier post). No. 14 led the way, vastly improving the appearance of Berlin’s once frumpy edifice. No. 23 is currently leading a team of her sisters who are toiling on London’s … Continue reading →