Literally Art - Words and Images
There is a long established connection between books and art in the form of the familiar graphic illustrations that give visual life to a written concept and help to illuminate elements of a story or poem with colour, shape and form. The skill of the illustrator is one of interpretative inspiration and, not wishing to push alliteration too far, also one of personal insight, sentiment and experience.
Books create pictures in the human mind - complex scenes of imagined places, times, conversations, memories and images are conjured into being through the power of words to create cognitive landscapes that are as much about the reader as the writer and the life experiences that shape the individual. This article is a little about the creative use of text in the drawing (Guided Drawing) and the...