Framing

Been framing up my print for the AOI Serco Prize exhibition at the London Transport Museum, opening next month.

 

Website Polish-Up

I've given my portfolio website an overdue spit 'n' polish, kicked out a lot of older work and added some new bits and pieces. Please take a look! 

www.benjamintmills.co.uk

Boston Globe Sketches

Thought I'd pop up some of the sketches I did for the Boston Globe illustration I posted a couple of weeks ago.

Here's the final sketch: 

Sketchbook! Sketchbook!

St Paul's

She wasn't really bothered about the Olympics. Seen it all before.

Boston Globe Illustration

Last week I was asked to produce an illustration for the Opinion pages of the Boston Globe. In the editorial, the writer reminisces about her life before and after the collapse of Lehman Brothers, where her husband was an investment banker. The story hangs around a recollected holiday afternoon in the summer of 2001. The art director was particularly keen on capturing the evocative atmosphere of the piece.

The editorial, by Judy Abel, can be read online, but is subscribers only. It's a great piece though!

The illustration ran pretty large- it was printed at about 10 inches high, I believe, which is very cool. I'll try to post up some of my sketches for this too.

Thanks for looking!

Jurassic Park

I've been reading Jurassic Park, having picked up this pre-Spielberg paperback in Oxfam. I recall hearing stories about the novel's nasty happenings as a Jurassic Park-obsessed 6 or 7 year-old when the film came out. It's taken me a decade and a half or so to actually come to read it myself. 


The dramatic cover was painted by John Brettoner. After many years as an airbrush-wielding illustrator, he now runs fruitman.com, a stock library site specialising in photographs of fruit.


Having read my way to the two-thirds point, I'd actually say that the novel is far less convincing than the film, though many seem to disagree.