Wednesday's is Culture day, when i venture out the Studio and head towards civilisation and art chat with my Friend and Photographer Lauren. We had been searching for that little place of inspiration, a diamond in the Rough of Boscombe.
How happy we where to find "The Crooked Book located on 725 Christchurch Rd
Boscombe a lovely Independent Coffee Shop/ Book Shop, selling Homemade Cakes, Teas, Raspberry Lemonade, Vintage Furniture from Art Deco to the 70's. Books, egg cups, Cigarette card, Old Comics, Bunting TypeWriters, Fabulous Vintage Leather suitcases. Wall to Wall curious, quirky and inspiring finds.
In one Corner Of The Crooked Book was a pile of Vintage photos, i purchased a few perfect for my latest project.
I find these photos a bit creepy, which is part of the theme of my new illustrations and paintings
Cute and Creepy.
Exploring characters who have both a sugar and spice side, above is some sketch ideas for Verity, a girl inspired from the Victorian Era, spooky yet sweet..
Its great to find inspiration on your doorstep, i hope you enjoyed this little place i have shared with you.
Be Great to hear from you.
Do share your local places of inspiration
or share what you find Spooky yet Sweet ?
Heidi. M xx
9 comments:
This is such a lovely post! :)
Your drawings are so beautiful and I love the look of The Crooked Book! :)
Oh The Crooked Book looks just perfect, there is nowhere like that where I live :( But thank you for sharing :) Loving your cute and creepy illustrations too :)
Oh, i've walked past this place a few times and always thought it looked interesting, i'll have to pop in sometime!
What a beautiful place!!!!:O) I love when i find a shop that I can go and get inspired by, i recently found one that has been near me for 10yrs and never found it til now:O) love the new banner, do you crop it and make it fit or do you make one especially for the banner? Im not good a computer stuff:O) have a great day
Oh what a lovely place! All the nice things together! I must pop by when I'm in the area! x
Oh that place sounds wonderful, I wish we had something like that here, but as you know it's a tad boring round these parts ;o)
I love spooky but sweet things, I have lots of tattoos with spooky but sweet halloweeny things lol ;o)
Wow Heidi! That place is really precious! I would like that Doha has something like that but so far I only found one shop with old stuff and it's not that nice. Enjoy your new project and share with us your new characters! Verity is so cute! xoxo Dominika
Your new style looks really great. I love creepy, spooky and cute. I love how you draw and color the eyes, beautiful. Your new style totaly surpriced me, but I love it and love to see more!
Its great isnt it to find a unique place to sit in..i hope that if you havent something like this near you something comes along soon.
@ The Secret Hermit - i never saw anything like this near you, but i did love the little antique / brick a brack shops that opened up just before i left it was a village nr Barrow and cant remember which one now. Miss that pretty countryside.
Hi Sandra we have written for ages, i hope that all is good with you, muct come back to flicker so i can see more if your fab work.
great to hear from each of you xxx
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