Jenny Speirs photography & illustration

INCHMAHOME

noreply@blogger.com (Jenny) — Mon, 17 Jan 2011 23:06:00 +0000

SNOWED IN

noreply@blogger.com (Jenny) — Tue, 30 Nov 2010 00:15:00 +0000

CURTAIN

noreply@blogger.com (Jenny) — Mon, 18 Oct 2010 21:57:00 +0000

SKIES

noreply@blogger.com (Jenny) — Mon, 18 Oct 2010 21:52:00 +0000

Oh dear, it's been a little while. Life got in the way. Let's try again.
Here are some good coloured skies from the past week or so. Both phone-photos, taken on journeys to 2 different homes.

bird

noreply@blogger.com (Jenny) — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 23:16:00 +0000

CAVE

noreply@blogger.com (Jenny) — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 22:53:00 +0000

weeding

noreply@blogger.com (Jenny) — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 15:07:00 +0000

A couple of weeks ago.

planted in the ground

noreply@blogger.com (Jenny) — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 15:05:00 +0000

none of my worries

noreply@blogger.com (Jenny) — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 23:17:00 +0000

TRAIN JOURNEY

noreply@blogger.com (Jenny) — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 01:43:00 +0000

Doodled on a very busy train, with a lady nosying over my shoulder. Drawing observed is like putting on a wee show. I drew her a wean on a climbing frame, I hope she liked it.

ANOTHER RAY

noreply@blogger.com (Jenny) — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 09:03:00 +0000

A few weeks ago, in sketchbook.

FACE

noreply@blogger.com (Jenny) — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 19:05:00 +0000

An old one, from art school, that had been stuck in a notebook and forgotten about.

JUMPS

noreply@blogger.com (Jenny) — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 10:55:00 +0000

LIE

noreply@blogger.com (Jenny) — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 17:10:00 +0000

Noticed I drew something very similar almost exactly two years ago. (flickr comes in very handy for filling in the blanks of your memory)

YELLOW

noreply@blogger.com (Jenny) — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 19:04:00 +0000

RAY

noreply@blogger.com (Jenny) — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 13:29:00 +0000

Drawn after seeing a lot of holy light in Belgium:

APPLES

noreply@blogger.com (Jenny) — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 23:09:00 +0000

Train doodle. I could only find the good black pen that lodges handily into my filofax, so this is a no-redos, pencil-less doodle. I tried for some wacky high-up perspective, and was going to draw people catching the apples below, but that seemed too risky for pencil-less doodling. I listened to Joanna Newsom and wrote a story to explain their absence instead. It goes:

I live in a very big tree, up very high. I can't see anyone below but I think they must be there. I hope so. I hope they think the same about me, up in this very big tree. At the end of the summer, the upper branches (my upper branches) creak and grumble with the weight of hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of apples. I think they are apples, they are purple. The branches of my tree reach down towards its roots. This is the only time my tree seems to care about the world below, if there is a world below. So I pluck apples and as gently as I'm able, I drop them to the someones - anyones below.

LOCH

noreply@blogger.com (Jenny) — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 08:27:00 +0000

noreply@blogger.com (Jenny) — Sun, 27 Jun 2010 10:11:00 +0000

trip down to see my gran, april 2010. long car ride. the spare room at my gran's has a lot of her paintings hanging in it - the apes and tenement weans anyway.

a (5 year old) photo of one of my gran's paintings:

and a wee mural of some sunflowers in her kitchen:

noreply@blogger.com (Jenny) — Sun, 20 Jun 2010 13:41:00 +0000

baking with k a few weeks ago. tablet is more effort than it looks..

churches

noreply@blogger.com (Jenny) — Sun, 20 Jun 2010 12:49:00 +0000

noreply@blogger.com (Jenny) — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 16:35:00 +0000

pooh sticks over the river Kelvin. One of the first properly sunny days in May.

noreply@blogger.com (Jenny) — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 20:03:00 +0000

Mysterious footsteps. 2nd wee picture book. Found these pages today on a flash drive, I must have scanned them ages ago. Think I'll try to make another one over the summer.

MUM PRUNING THE ROSES

noreply@blogger.com (Jenny) — Sat, 05 Jun 2010 22:13:00 +0000

WEE DANCE

noreply@blogger.com (Jenny) — Sat, 05 Jun 2010 22:07:00 +0000