Sketchbook Project and Silliness Galore

Sketching and design is on again for me and I spent a great two days in Parramatta – the city that’s the centre of Sydney - taking it all in this week. My current ‘point of view’ is typography and in particular signage. After reading Characters by Stephen Banham, a cultural history of Melbourne via typography, I started looking up at facades and found an new appreciation of an overlooked history of our changing suburbs. This was very apparent in Parramatta and it had some great examples of historic typography on buildings, including some old neon style signs.

Lovely 'theatre' style letters remaining on a building in Parramatta

I tried to gain a sense of the designs, incorporating architectural features, and placing these in my weaving filter. I was pretty surprised by what I came up with in my sketch book. I think I  was motivated by the Art of Silliness Redux that I had just completed. I’m now just about to start with the photo Silly 2 Online Class to help me with my eye for drawing and I’ve joined up with the Sketchbook Project, just in case I run out of things to do…as if.