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Oluseyi Ogunjobi and his small team of helpers are dabbing on colour and masking out areas with melted wax, batik fashion, on a huge banner which will form the background to the stage at the street festival in Huddersfield next month. He tells me he doesn't always work on this scale. There's a chance to see his artwork later in the year when he has a show at Huddersfield. Oluseyi also performs as a drummer.
We've made the trip to Huddersfield to pick up a replacement Rotring Art Pen with an extra fine sketching nib from Calder Graphics. I haven't been able to track one down closer to home, Rotring products seem to be getting more difficult to find these days. Mine went missing a week or two ago and I need it for the lettering in my garden book. When we get back from Huddersfield it's turned cooler so
I go to wardrobe and take out my body warmer. My old pen is in the pocket!
Richard Bell, richard@willowisland.co.uk |
There's
a calm, ordered feel to this morning's banner workshop in Huddersfield
Art Gallery. This is such a contrast to the race-against-time
rush I find myself in when I'm painting scenery for the local pantomime.