Just thought I’d share a few thoughts on the drawing I made and have just shared on this blog. I was asked a while ago to illustrate a song for the musician, artist and writer Sid Wright.  This is for a book of songs that he is compiling, and the proceeds will go to a charity for victims of road traffic accidents. Sid lives in Cumbria, which I have a particular affinity with as I grew up there. I don’t want to say too much about the content of the song as the book has not been published yet. Enough to say, that it is very heartfelt. I remembered the drawing that I made in the summer for the Medea series called ‘Medea hold your heart’ which struck a chord with ‘Smile’. I decided to revisit that pose only this time showing part of the face with the mouth. I’m the most convenient and approachable model so I often use myself as a starting point. It is never meant to be a literal portrait but more of an archetype or universal notion of what I am trying to say. I made another drawing in the same sitting but this time in colour very quickly as the light was fading. I’ll work through the stages through drawing until I get somewhere, wherever that is! Watch this space.