Illustration Friday - Red

I wanted red hair in the worst possible way as an eight year old. I blame this largely on the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation and "Anne of Green Gables."

Hansel and Gretel

I saw "Lady In The Water" this past weekend. I know it was panned dreadfully, but I liked it. Perhaps the world needs more in the way of fairy tales...

*Will H. Bradley - Art nouveau illustrator and letterer

*Jennifer Maestre makes pins from pencils

A Red Plume

Her scarf is from an old Latin textbook.

*For those of you up North, Tomie dePaola is giving a free talk at UNH next week. It'll be broadcast later on New Hampshire Public Television.

Illustration Friday - Super Hero

Because the geeks of the world need one they can call their own.

A Concertina

I'm working on a postcard right now and here's a bit.

*I love these diagrams at Paper, Pictures, Automata & Other Fanciful Things

* Soviet children's picture books

*I'm so out of the loop - how did I miss Steve Mack's illustration blog?

Illustration Friday - 80's

80's - Eight e's. Maybe I should have drawn them with legwarmers?

Click

I was looking at old family photographs today. These are my favorites.

Mercredi

Sometimes I get coffee and draw on my lunch breaks. Today I had a window seat and could do some stealth sketching when the people at the bus stop weren't looking.



Accordion rock bands! It could happen...

*Now these are some shoes on An illustration A Day

*Under Cover: Artists' Sketchbooks were at Harvard this past Fall

Do you play croquet?

I make New Year's resolutions because I have an idealistic streak that outweighs the more pragmatic New Englander in me.

So besides the more mundane things (like avoiding the siren call of the snooze bar), I'm making a resolution that's a bit more ambitious. The above is one of those resolutions to really stop saying "Someday I'll illustrate..." and maybe get up the gumption to send some things out this year.

Illustration Friday - Buzz

I had started this out as a bee, then swapped it over to be more of a beetle. Now I'm thinking it looks a bit like the Green Hornet's formative years...

*Magnet Reps has desktop wallpaper under each artist's profile. I have Bella Pilar's on my computer at the moment.

January

January and it's 50 degrees? Yipeeee!

*Mike Linkovich neighborhood drawings

*Sir Henry Thornhill's illustrated letters to his grandchildren

Illustration Friday - Phoenix

The Russian folk tale of the firebird - I'm a sucker for fairy tales and such. Anyhow, it started out watercolor, but I ended up finishing the colors and adding the tree bark in photoshop. Lately I've gotten tired of looking at a computer screen, so here's to getting back to paints and all that jazz in '07...

Speaking of which, Happy New Year to everyone!!!

*Alex Steinweiss - Produced a ton of album art throughout the 40's and 50's that's just amazing. His use of color and lettering are top-notch. Scroll down past the diagrams of the die-cuts for the really neat stuff.

*Ah Yun Julia Jung's textiles show at FIDM