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Hello Exactly six months ago I was artist in residence at Redstone Press HQ. I made a little booklet to send in thanks to Julian. It was printed on my desktop, using heavier than normal paper. Iām thinking about how to create and share more stuff as print-it-yourself physical artefacts. Here's the larger inside page: And this is the digital drawing: It's based on a photo collage I shared last week. You can see the photo collage in the archive of previous emails (https://is.gd/ryzV25), if you didn't already receive it into your inbox. ā
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John-Paul Flintoff
Hello!, thanks for popping in. I'm a writer, illustrator and performer.
š 7 Books in 16 languages š including: How To Change The World A Modest Book About How To Make An Adequate Speech.
Hello hello! Yesterday, I spent a whole therapy session talking about a book proposal I'm trying to write. It was quite helpful, actually. (To be clear: I'm not a psychotherapist. I was the client / patient.) This is the monthly newsletter from John-Paul FlintoffYou can unsubscribe any time, using the link below The book I want to write is about interviews. Not about dialogue, as such, but about what happens when dialogue is shared with some kind of audience. That's what makes it an...
Greetings Reader Have you stopped on a pavement, recently, to take a whiff of a neighbour's lilac? I recommend it. I wish you could smell the one on Crewys Road, between me and Childs Hill Park. It looks a bit like this: Ink, pencil and pen on A3 textured 250gsm paper. In other news: Using pictures to develop stories. I asked a recent International Booker Prize winner if I could do his portrait, along the lines of this one. He seems willing. Magnolia prints now available. (These prints are -...
Hello Reader Until you attempt to describe a still image, using actual words, it doesn't really mean much. Or, to put that the other way around: by describing a picture - actually choosing words and uttering them or writing them down - you can't avoid finding stories in it. I recorded a short video about this (see below), at the request of Helen at Arvon, to drum up interest in the upcoming online writing course. In the video you can see examples of the to-and-fro of words and pictures...