By: Jerry Beck,
on 1/21/2010
I have no love for Cartoon Network these days, but I will not let that stop me from trumpeting the forthcoming debut of Pendelton Ward’s animated series Adventure Time (it’s official title is Adventure Time With Finn and Jake but I will only prefer to call it Adventure Time). The on-air promos have started playing and the production blog is loaded with art. I’m excited!
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By: Jerry Beck,
on 1/21/2010
I have no love for Cartoon Network these days, but I will not let that stop me from trumpeting the forthcoming debut of Pendelton Ward’s animated series Adventure Time (it’s official title is Adventure Time With Finn and Jake but it’ll always be simply Adventure Time to me). The on-air promos have started playing and the production blog is loaded with cool artwork. I’m excited!
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By: Jordan Race,
on 1/21/2010
By: nicole,
on 1/21/2010
well, unfortuneatley, time did not permit me to be able to submit a finished painting for this week's i.f. theme of "wilderness":( however, i was so excited to be able to have SOME time to participate in it again (since i've been CRAZY BUSY these last few months w/custom work) that i didn't want to skip out on it this week. i figured the ROUGH pencil/pastel sketch here was better than nothing at all! although, i do have every intention of making a finished piece out of this...one day SOON i hope! enjoy:)))
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By: Jennifer DeDonato,
on 1/21/2010
By: Ellis Nadler,
on 1/21/2010
I'd like to say it's engraved on Turkish boxwood but it's actually a plywood offcut from Homebase.
Woodcut with digital colour. 35mm x 40mm. Click to enlarge.
By: Abigail Halpin,
on 1/21/2010
By: Abigail Halpin,
on 1/21/2010
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on 1/21/2010
By: Stephanie Roth Sisson,
on 1/21/2010
The yellowish picture was taken when it was hailing and all of these poor pelicans and seagulls were flying around helter skelter...We have had A LOT of rain in recent days...tomorrow it clears up for the weekend.
By: Anita Mejía,
on 1/21/2010
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By: John,
on 1/21/2010
If you haven’t been to Hey Oscar Wilde! … It’s Clobberin’ Time – the illustrations of literary figures blog – in a while, now’s probably a good time to check back there. Blogger, Steven Gettis has updated with tons of great illustrations (including the above/scary Lord of the Flies illustration by Sam Weber – PS. Johnny wrote more about that project here).
Also check out Dune illustration by Dustin Harbin, Haruki Murakami by Jeffrey Brown and this George Orwell caricature by Kevin Nowlan.
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By: Norman Childes,
on 1/21/2010
I'm thrilled to announce that Pencil Play Pals have two winners in the Family Choice Magazine Awards.
"The Crocodile Who Thought She Was a Duck," and "Pencil Play Pals Pencil Games," were both honored with a Family Choice Award. Family Choice Magazine wrote:
From over 15,000 entries, local children, parents, and teachers, tested, rated and eliminated until they came up with the best of the best.
Awards are always nice to receive, but most importantly they give a good book much needed publicity, so that others can discover and enjoy it. Thanks very much to all those involved.
By: Mark G. Mitchell,
on 1/21/2010
It’s been a landmark week for Austin children’s writers. Three of our gang scored top honors -- a Caldecott Honor, a Sibert Honor and a Newbery Honor — from the American Library Association.
Evolution of Calpurnia Tate by Jacqueline Kelly
Our Austin, Texas chapter of the Society of Children’s Book Writers (SCBWI) is a little dazed after last weekend’s 2010 award announcements. Austin’ s Jacqueline Kelly received a Newbery Honor for her YA novel The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate about a girl growing up at the turn of the 19th century. The picture book poem All the World penned by Liz Garton Scanlon of Austin and illustrated by Marla Frazee was named one of the two Caldecott Honor books. (Frazee’s second Caldecott Honor.)
"All the World" by Liz Garton Scanlon, illustrated by Marla Frazee
And The Day-Glo Brothers written by Chris Barton of Austin and illustrated with retro lines and Day-Glo colors by Tony Persiani won a Sibert Honor for children’s nonfiction. (From the ALA – “The Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Medal is awarded annually to the author(s) and illustrator(s) of the most distinguished informational book published in English during the preceding year.”)
Our SCBWI chapter claims all three of these writers and we’ll claim Frazee, too. So that makes four.
All four, as it just so happens had been scheduled to present at the Austin SCBWI regional 2010 conference “Destination Publication” next weekend (January 30) with an already honors heavy line-up of authors, editors and agents. Marla is giving the keynote address along with Newbery Honor author Kirby Larson (Hatti Big Sky)
Another Texan, Libba Bray won the Michael L. Printz Award
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By: Shadra Strickland,
on 1/21/2010
So I was taking a break today to congratulate
Kekla Magoon for winning this year’s John Steptoe Award where I noticed her book has also been nominated for an NAACP image award. I then noticed that OUR CHILDREN CAN SOAR has also been nominated in the “Outstanding Literary Work for Children” category. Hot dang! How cool is that? You can also see OUR CHILDREN CAN SOAR in “Ebony Magazine” this February.
Good luck to all this year’s nominees!
Exciting announcement! Contract signed! Look out for my new series "Okie Dokie Donuts", to be published by Top Shelf! http://www.topshelfcomix.com/catalog.php?type=2 
By: K.C. Snider,
on 1/21/2010
I forgot that we had not posted the portrait of my grandkids to my blog, so here it is (just a little blurry).
Meet Colby and Savanna Snider:
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By: David Billings,
on 1/21/2010
Today I will be traveling a bit (no kidding, in Portland this time). This afternoon I’ll be downtown and later in the evening I’ll be hanging around on Alberta in the 
Concordia area (likely near 33rd Ave).
If you want to check in on my whereabouts and say hello, I’ll be updating on Twitter. I hope to see you around.
By the way, I just realized that this all sounds like “Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants.”
Dammit.
What be this Mobile Pants thing?
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By: James Gurney,
on 1/21/2010
Thanks so much to all of you for your insightful comments and votes on yesterday’s post about the cover design for the upcoming book on color and light.
In this post I wanted to tell you more about how I came to write the book, and what’s in it.
When I was in art school I took a color class that consisted of painting a lot of flat swatches, cutting them out with a sharp knife, and pasting them down into color wheels and gray scales. I spent months learning how to paint perfectly smooth swatches and trying to get the steps between them exactly even. 
At the end of each day I would leave the classroom and look up at the colors of the sky, the trees, and the water around me. The sky was not composed of adjacent flat colors, but rather of an infinite variety of gradating hues. Why did dark colors turn blue as they went back toward the horizon——except in a few instances, such as in the photo below, when a setting sun casts the far vista in orange light? Why did the leaves have a sharp yellow-green color when the light shined through them, but a gray-green color on top? 
In school I was learning valuable skills about how to see and mix color, but I had no idea how to apply this experience to real-world painting problems. Color theory seemed more like a branch of chemistry or mathematics, a separate science that had little to do with making a realistic painting. I felt like a piano student who had played a lot of scales, but had never gotten around to the melody.
If there were answers to my questions about how color interacts with light, atmosphere, water, and other materials, I would have to find them in fields like physics, optics, physiology, and materials science. I started digging back into art instruction books from more than 75 years ago, when it was taken for granted that artists were trying to create an illusion of reality. Artists as far back as Leonardo da Vinci were struggling to explain the workings of the visual world around them. Each old book had its vein of gold, but the information needed to be translated and updated for our times, and the old theories needed to be tested against recent scientific discoveries.
I investigated recent findings in the field of visual perception and found that many of my assumptions, even about such basic things as the primary colors, were mistaken. I learned that the eye is not like a camera, but more like an extension of the brain itself. I learned that moonlight is not blue, it only appears blue because of a trick that our eyes are playing on us.
During the last few years, since the release of Dinotopia: Journey to Chandara, I have taught workshops at a lot of art schools and movie studios. I have also kept up this blog, which explores the working methods of contemporary realists, academic painters, and Golden Age illustrators. I adapted some of the blog content into my recent book, Imaginative Realism: How to Paint what Doesn’t Exist. As I assembl
By: mike,
on 1/21/2010
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Awesome. Everyone looks like a dork in 3-d glasses.
I like your team fortress guy on your blog also. It looks like you took a render from the game itself. Nice work.
Thanks, Mr. T!
By the way, I really liked your Fight Club painting. It actually inspired me to want to try out more painterly styles.