Illustration Friday - Snap

Illustration Friday - snap.

When I was drawing this I kept thinking of that scene in "Funny Face" where Kay Thompson and Fred Astaire are posing as beatniks. That in turn makes me wonder what life would be like if it were all one big movie musical...

Book Covers

My sister posted some bookcover images that were pretty neat - here's some others.

*Mary Newell DePalma's illustrations

Let's make like an atom and split

Still mining the nieces' antics...

Red Beret

*Hammerpress - Terrific letterpress pieces.

*John Dilnot's boxes

Emmaline Exaggerates

*"Stolen" - I started watching this the other night and had to hit the sack, but really fascinating. Dastardly art thiefs? Check. The mob? Check. And it all goes down in Boston? Perfect.

*Karen's Whimsy - Wonderful collection of public domain images. My favorite is the cut-out circus.

Illustration Friday - Total

It all adds up.

Incredulous

Cheap-o ballpoint pen doodles.

*Rhode Montijo ("Cloud Boy" author/illustrator) has a blog!

*I can't read a word, but "Slagt en hellig ko" has wonderful photos

Twelve Dancing Princesses

Twelve daughters? Yee gads - no wonder that king was up for marrying them off.

*Mondopanno's desktops and flickr photos

*Suetterlin handwriting

*Vaudville Postcards - Images from old theatre shows

*"Talking With Artists" - Meant for children, but a fun read regardless. There's some great interviews and photos of various illustrators at work. I got a kick out of William Joyce listening to "Ride of the Valkyries" and "Batman" as he works.

Painting

Today I sat out at noontime and forgot that last week I was muttering about the Artic blasts. I also saw a gypsy-style jazz band play outdoors; that was the bee's knees.

*Don Colley's sketchbooks, featured in this month's American Artist "Drawing" magazine

*Terrific comic art at Buffalog

*And I'm carrying my car keys and wallet around in style.

Illustration Friday - Wired

Saturday

I'm not a big gadget person - I still listen to cassette tapes. My aunt however was getting rid of one of those battery opperated milk frother things and I gave it a try. Quite frankly, it is too cool for school. Hot coffee drinks with barista-worthy foam are pretty nifty.

*Via the NESCBWI group I saw mention of Child At Heart Art Gallery

*Laura Smith's art has a great retro feel

*Space Invader socks! I used to play that game on a Texas Instruments computer - good times.

Illustration Friday - Hide

And quite frankly this is what I think I'm about to do if it doesn't warm up pronto.

More Fairies

Sub zero temps? Blah. Cinnamon in my coffee and Billie Holiday on the radio? Much nicer.

Above the treetops

More fairies...

And a blast from the past! I'm a packrat when it comes to letters and things. I found this a few weeks back and it's from a sketchbook I had in 2nd grade maybe? It's hilarious going back through this - things like knights in armor with glasses of milk.

Spring Cleaning

Time for Spring Cleaning! I just uploaded a bunch of photos to flickr, including this one of some tags I made for Christmas presents.

*BALLE - Business Alliance for Local Living Economies: Great campaign to encourage buying locally to promote small businesses and community

*While browsing the Barefoot Books page I ran across Giovanni Manna's illustrations. Beautiful watercolors! Here and here.