Gareth Hinds's Blog, page 15

Honeymoon – a brief pause

I just realized that my timing is bad. I was going to post the honeymoon reports day-by-day, but I have other commitments pretty much 24/7 this week. So this post is just to say, the next few honeymoon posts may be delayed.

In the meantime, check this out — Candlewick has a YouTube channel. I hope to contribute some homebrew Odyssey trailers to it, later this summer. Let me know if you have ideas or want to help!

Also, ASP's Timon

I saw ASP's Timon of Athens on its opening night, and deeply regret that I don't have time to scan the sketches right now. I'll post them next weekend. In the meantime there are some nice reviews here and here.

Honeymoon – Paris Day 4

We went to Montmartre and Sacre Couer. We climbed the many steps. We avoided the scammer who wanted to weave a bracelet on one of our wrists. We went inside, and were blown away by the architecture and by the amazing mosaics.

We wandered around Montmartre a bit, looking at the artists' stalls, tile rooftops, and very nice views of the city.

Then we tried to go to the Gustav Moreau museum, but took a wrong turn, got hungry, searched way too long for food, ate, then decided to hurry over to the ...

Honeymoon – Paris Day 3

We swung back by Notre Dame — on the weekend there had been a long line to get in, but there was no line today, so we went in and marveled, especially at the ornamental gates throughout, and the cool relics they have tucked away in one side of the transept. Alison got some lovely shots through one of the stained glass windows.

They have Sam the Eagle in there. Check it out.

It WAS a honeymoon, so there have to be some cute silly shots.

Drawing the Hotel De Ville:

Next we went to the Arc de...

Honeymoon – Paris Day 2

We slept really late, and then got off to a slow start, having breakfast in the apartment and looking at guidebooks and such, so Day 2 turned out to be kind of short.

We swung back by Notre Dame. Right across the river is the famous bookstore Shakespeare & Co. (about which I'm sure Alison will eventually blog at length, so I'll say no more about it)

Then we went to a nearby flower market where they also have birds and other animals on Sundays (like these adorable sleeping ferrets).

I drew...

Honeymooning – Day 1

Hey, there. Sorry I've been so quiet lately. Alison and I took a 16-day honeymoon in Paris and London, and since we got back I've been trying to catch up with work, scan all the drawings I did, and go through all the photos we took. Rather than write a novella-length post with hundreds of images, I thought it might be cooler and more reasonable to tell the whole thing on a day-by-day basis, almost as though I were blogging in real-time but with a several-week delay.

We flew out on April 23rd, ...

Odyssey Cover

The final cover for The Odyssey has appeared in Candlewick's fall catalog, so now I can finally post it in all its glory. The book is scheduled for release on October 12th.

I love it when my drawings end up on cool things

A few months ago I got a call from Harvard's Widener Library about using a drawing I did of Memorial Hall for a bookplate they were designing. This bookplate (if I understand correctly) is for books purchased by the Katherine B. Loker memorial fund.

I just got my samples of the finished bookplates. I think they're quite elegant.

Dogs, dogs, dogs

Alison and I love dogs. But there are lots of reasons why we can't have one right now. So we were delighted to discover recently that Fresh Pond has not only a lovely walking path, but a little auxiliary pond in which dogs are allowed to swim. And boy do they! So now one of our favorite things to do on a sunny weekend is to go sit by the pond for an hour watching the dogs play, and occasionally making new friends (of either the two- or four-legged variety).

Here are some recent sketches, some ...

Video Interview

Paul Falcone at Wellesley Public Access put together this nice interview, including a few clips of me doing aikido as well as discussing my work and my influences. 15 minutes long.

http://paulfalcone.blip.tv/file/3448565/