Sketching in a magazine-entertaining myself during a flight.

I was on the way home to St Louis from Portland on the only direct flight I could find at the time I needed and I had forgotten to check in early so I ended up in the dreaded C boarding group on Southwest, there were 4 people behind and a plane full of people in front of me. I was not looking for a luxury window or a convenient aisle seat, no, I was looking for a inevitable middle seat but what I was really looking for was one with room to breathe! I spotted it, a seat I could fit in without (hopefully) having to fight the elbows or knees of my fellow travelers.

I plonked myself down and get settled. Phone on airplane mode, what shall I do? Read my book which I had just bought and was only a few pages in? Listen to some music or a podcast? Start reading Kinfolk magazine which I had splashed out on just before I left Portland?

While I was in Portland one of my friends had gifted me a new pen which I was keen to try so I somehow got the idea to read Kinfolk and as I read it, sketch in it and jot notes in it. Isn’t it strange how an idea can just come to you and you know it will be a winner! I just knew that this mini project would see me through the journey home.

I read the articles and then sketched or made some marks depending on what I thought I wanted to do on the page. I didn’t want to draw on this horse so I doodled a few circles.This article was about bird calls so I sketched some birds. The shelves in the advert got a few additions.Here is a hotel article and I wrote on the next page ‘I bought a sand-wich I won’t eat because I was given all the snacks’! The airline crew were very generous with the snacks! I doodled in Mr Dali’s magnifying glass and made a note on the following page about some chocolates I had bought and turned out not to be what I expected.

I learnt about Yugen and bubbles in space.‘Case design’, I know, hilarious.More doodles and some matches.I added to this fashion spread where I felt needed some extra!!! ha