Tumbling with Mike Robinson May 18th 2024

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Mike introduced himself and explained how he started being interested in the arts by doing cartoons whilst working in South Africa.
The present style, he would be explaining today, he had developed over the last ten years. With this work he mainly works in black ink, although colour is sometimes added.
He started with this technique whilst on a sixth month break from work, using stencils and a French curve to get his outlines which he slowly fills in with intricate patterns. 
He often carries his small pieces taped to place mats around with him to work on when he gets a spare moment.

At this stage,

​ he handed out a booklet he has started to put together which showed more examples of his work as well as small templates for our members to use if they wished. 
Telling us he works from the top left corner, 'tumbling' his drawing downwards to the bottom right corner so as not to smudge his ink, (Hence the name for his work) He has finished ten books of his work and is now working on his eleventh.

Below are some pages from the help sheets to give us ideas as we started to do our own work.

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