Visual ideas for novel....

Visuals for Novel A

When I write, I see and hear the story I have in mind and sometimes take a few photos as reminders and inspiration.

Part One

Part Two

Part Three

Part Four and Five

(in progress)

I am unsure about whether to include images, partly because some areas of the novel would be devoid of them and the reason for this is that the cameras I had with me ran out of film and my cellphone ran out of charge so I reached a phase on the Norfolk coast where imagery is purely stored in my head and I guess then I depicted what I saw in my mind and in surroundings in words.

I hope one day to make a film of my story.  
The photos act as a constant visual reminder.

The Persephone file

Rossetti on Proserpine

She is represented in a gloomy corridor of her palace, with the fatal fruit in her hand. As she passes, a gleam strikes on the wall behind her form some inlet suddenly opened, and admitting for a moment the light of the upper world; and she glances furtively towards it, immersed in thought. 

The Light Album

I started to compile some photos together on the theme of light

Nice

Menton

Nice

unknown place

reflection of a segment of the observation-wheel - 

Winter-Wonderland - Hyde Park

the dismantling of winter wonderland

car head-lights

crossing a common - in north east London

on the way home from my friend's house

heart shape

in a cemetery in Hampstead - London

making coffee on electric stove - 

a London morning

Van Gogh as inspiration

I first saw this painting today by Vincent Van Gogh.

It's of Armand Roulin and was painted in 1988

There is a look to Jeremy Corbyn that reminds me of Van Gogh- perhaps the sincerity. Corbyn and Van Gogh also share an interest in the ordinary person, the worker.

Van Gogh by Van Gogh

Perhaps I could try to paint Jeremy Corbyn ?

Figurative Photos - Summer 2015

Some photos I took on holiday this year around Lisbon, Sintra and Estoril in Portugal, with my BlackBerry.

me - Atlantic Ocean

police at Estoril train station

writer at Estoril

man on bench at Estoril

guitarist - beach at Estoril

father and son - Estoril

Salvador - Estoril

fisherman - Estoril

me - Lisbon

family - Sintra

Rosabel Sophie - Estoril

The youngest of the family 

Background: Casino Estoril

man and woman on a bench, Sintra

Time permitting I intend to use these some of images as inspiration for a series of drawings perhaps, if not oil paintings. Hopefully the dilutants, such as poppy and linseed oil, won't make me feel too nauseous. I don't have a studio out of the home, so when I set up all my painting things here we are surrounded by heady fumes. I dislike acrylics but may consider gouache or egg tempera.