Scrapbook Notebook Series Scrapbook #1 | Page 62

porches drinking lemonade, the list is endless, so long as it involves things of little consequence and of high social appeal. u SB Do you keep a scrapbook? Britt: I keep a number of sketchbooks, most completely filled with nonsensical doggerel and hopeless drawings. I suppose it’s cathartic having such aimless purposes in my sketching. u SB What would be your dream job/commission? Britt: I’d love to make an entire book of strange looking monsters and other absurd creatures. Oddities are always great fun to illustrate. u SB Who are your illustration heroes? Britt: Rockwell and all the great ink artists, Winsor McCay, Heinrich Kley, John Hendrix, John Cuneo. u SB What do you have bookmarked? Britt: Dictionary.com (as I’m always second guessing myself). u SB Who would you like to have as your muse if your were painting their portrait? Britt: A smelly drifter with an implausible structure, with a beard so unkempt that a bird has made a home of it, and he wears the same damn striped shirt regardless of the weather. But when he does muster a smile, children and some breeds of dog can somehow consider him likeable even if only briefly. Britt Spencer’s Favourites Gallery Every Picture Tells a Story Shop Thrift Stores Art Equipment/Tool Rapidograph pens, Holbein AcrylaGouache Café Solar De Cahuenga Food Pizza Drink Dr. Pepper www.illustrationweb.com/brittspencer 172