Maybe You Shouldn't Discourage Your Children From Writing On The Walls. Charlotte Mann Doodles For Profit.

above image courtesy of the Sunday Times Style section



Perhaps it time to stop reprimanding your kids for writing on the walls. That is, if you want them to have a career like Charlotte Mann. An artist/ illustrator/ doodlebug who works with black marker on walls, blinds, white emulsion paint, paper, backgrounds and more.

You may recall a previous post of mine on artists who use Sharpies to decorate everything from a Lamborghini to a basement. Well, Charlotte has turned her doodling into an impressive commercial career. Her work has graced magazine covers, backdrops for fashion shows, even store window displays.

Here are a few fab examples of her work. (click on the images to enlarge)

High Holborn Appartment Wall (2.5 x 8.5) Black marker pen on wall and blinds:

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Huf Haus wall (9.5 x 2.2m) Marker pen on white emulsion paint

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Hampstead wall (3.1 x 2.7m) Marker pen on white emulsion paint


The School of Life wall (20 x 2m) Marker pen on white emulsion paint

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Peter Jensen Resort 2010 presentation (2.3 x 2.3m x 1.6m) Marker pen on white Colorama paper mounted on wooden frame. Peter Jensen Backdrop (30 x 5m) Black marker pen drawing on white Colorama paper




B-store window space Black and white marker pen on glass, acetate and Colorama paper.




Cube P.R. (2.5 x 2m) Marker pen on white emulsion paint wall

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Kickers X Project




Something... (4 x 3m) Marker pen drawing on white emulsion painted wall

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India Knight's Wall (9 x 3m) Marker pen on white emulsion paint wall




BIOGRAPHY

above image courtesy of ELLE Decor

Charlotte Mann is an artist known for her large life-sized drawings. She was born in London where she currently lives and works. She graduated from Central St Martin's Fashion Design Women's wear BA in 2000, and worked in the various fields of fashion design, styling, and illustration, before focusing on her artwork.

She worked for Russell Sage, designing and producing show pieces (including a dress made from real bank notes, now archived in the V&A, and pieces made with antique animal skins, which were featured in an exhibition at the Metropollitan Museum of Art in New York). She also designed for, amongst others: Laura Ashley, Kickers and Okini, and she was the costume designer and stylist for Eddie Izzard's Sexie tour.

The shift to the art work she is currently involved in came in september 2006 when she created the 30 meter long densely detailed hand drawn back drop for Peter Jensen's Spring/Summer 2007 show. since then she has created pieces for a number of different clients including India Knight, The School Of Life and B-Store.

Charlotte had been teaching for the University Of The Arts since 2001, she is an Associate Lecturer at St Martin's, Chelsea School of Art and Camberwell College of Art, and curates the Camberwell Foundation Film program, at the Vue Cinema Leicester Square, attracting guests such as Mike Leigh, Lynne Ramsay and Bruno Dumont. She also teaches at The Prince's Drawing School.

© Charlotte Mann 2008

Buy her books here.

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More Amazing Doodlers

Be sure to see some other artists who go wild with a Sharpie here.

And You Thought Sharpies Were For Writing Your Name In Your Undies.

The world's best known permanent laundry maker, the Sharpie, isn't just for labeling your underwear. Hand drawn cars, basement walls, decorated ceramic busts and more like those shown here may make you rethink the way you use that stinky pen.

The Sharpie Lamborghini Gallardo:











The car was actually done in sharpie markers on the paint and then finished with a clear coat for protection. It took about 2 weeks total. Prestige (Lamborghini Miami) definitely shocked a lot of people when this car was first seen in California during the Concorso Italiano/Pebble Beach week. It attracted attention good, and apparently bad as well, everywhere it went.
(images courtesy of VOD Cars and JT Photos on flickr)

Charlie Kratzer's Basement Decorated With A Sharpie:

It's no surprise that Charlie Kratzer's hand drawn basement walls have graced many a design blog, but if you haven't yet seen it, I think it's a must. I have taken the images from the video and reduced the yellow tint and tried to make the drawings clearer for you than on many blogs. I'm only sorry I wasn't able to get higher resolution images for you. Nevertheless, take a look at these.



There's Georges Seurat's Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte. There is Blenheim Palace, the birthplace of Winston Churchill, and the Cornell Law School, of which Kratzer is an alumnus. There is Kratzer's dad. There is the harlequin pattern — alluded to in culinary culture today by the Panera bread bag — and a fake fireplace facing a real one.

How did this Sharpie world start? With a single swipe of the marker. Kratzer started mid-wall, with the Salon by Picasso. Then he thought, well, taking a design out to the edge of the wall wouldn't be overwhelming. Then the rest of the basement flared off that first wall.



Kratzer might be a lawyer by day, but in his off hours he is a man who has taken the artistic influences and heroes of his life and imagined them onto his walls, that he might keep company with them while he uses the pool table.


From the main floor leading down to the basement, there is a color mural inspired by Picasso's The Dream.

article excerpts and images from Kentucky Lexington Herald Leader

Also:
Artist Justine Ashbee, at www.justineashbee.com, features a gallery of intricate Sharpie art.

above: Justine Ashbee with her paint pen art

Artist and illustrator Brian Morris uses a Sharpie to decorated ceramic busts and vinyl toys:




And Svetlana Muller uses Sharpies on canvas, paper and notebooks to create artful images:

Check out Svetlana Muller's Sharpie art here.


Sharpie Uncapped is a section of the Sharpie site where several artists' Sharpie work is shown.

Also be sure to check out the Sharpie Blog here.

By the way, in case you didn't know, Sharpie has recently introduced their new stainless steel Sharpie, very slick looking:


Official Sharpie site.

Don't miss the amazing Rodarte Runway show with Sharpie body art tattoos!