Taj's Sketches

'Cottage' by Taj Kemp

  During the last four years while at University, and as i move into a teaching career, i have found myself increasingly drawing (and painting) different types of artworks. I have played music for more than 20 years now and thoroughly enjoy making music on many instruments as well as listening to music. Drawing is something pretty new to me, while i spent much of my childhood drawing / painting, i shifted my artistic focus onto music soon after picking up the guitar. It is only recently i have noticed how much I enjoy drawing artworks. 

  My style is not yet fully established. I feel like its a cross between my technical drawing skills and abilities and my creative enthusiasm for children's book illustrations. Technically I rely on my technical drawing skills such as use of guide lines and perspectives. Creatively, i am sponging the sketching and colouring techniques of every picture within a children's book. Many of my sketches use the 'perspective' drawing style to achieve a 'richer' depth of field within the landscapes and objects.

  So these 'sketches' have been done mostly in pen and pencil. Whilst many of them are on lined exercise book paper, these sketches are merely 'draft plans' for an intended future 'polished' copy of the artwork. All images are created by and belong to Taj Kemp. The Images were sketched between 2012 - 2015 and are quite geometrical (possibly inspired by the lined paper).

Street Scene #1

'A Chance of Escher"

'Stairway to Carpet'

'24 Hour Chemist'

 'Lord of The Roads'

 'Ink spilt letter'

 'The Hangar'

 'A Degree for Tea'

 'Diversity, Next Exit' 

(original & colour)

 'Mug of a mug'

 'Tuesday' 

Adapted from David Wiesner's book 'Tuesday'

 'Tumbling Dice'

 'The Plot and Shed'

 'The Great Wave' 

Adaption of Hokusai's famous print

 'The Homestead'

 'High-rise'

 'Cottage'

 'School Entrance'

 'The Service Station'

 'Regional train station'

 'Steps toward paradise'

 'User' (unfinished)

'Moes Hall'

 'The Art Gallery'

'City School'