Monday, 6 June 2011

Keys Of Marinus hand coloured art

Here is a rare example of a piece of Time Team art from before I went to digital colouring. After inking the  approved pencils I would make numerous photocopies to try various colour combinations on. Once I settled on the right colour scheme I would then hand colour the original with Dr Martin's Liquid Watercolors. You either got it right first time or wrecked the art ( though there's many a time I fixed mistakes with gouache )  The finished art was then sent to the DWM office where Peri scanned it on for publication. Apparently when I finally succumbed to the darkside and sent in digital files - her life got so much easier.:)

The art you see here is one of only two hand coloured original Time Team's I still have in my possession , having sold off the rest very early in my career.

3 comments:

  1. gosh, i particularly love the early time time stuff, partly cos it's quite a thrill to see the hartnell stories illustrated in such a dynamic way. you even make the voord look cool!

    Neil
    http://shallwedestroy.blogspot.com/

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  2. Neil

    The early Time Teams were a thrill for me too. I could be particularly creative with the missing stories where the only indication were teleshaps or stills.

    A

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  3. Yay! More Time Teams!
    Loving these Ade. Any chance you could put up the Marco Polo one - that was really tiny in DWM.

    And when are they bringing out a Time Team book so you can go back and do all the ones you had to miss out? I`d buy it just for those!

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