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By Susanne Jaffe, Thurber House Executive Director
Last night we wrapped up our 2012 Winter/Spring Evenings With Authors season with a visit from J. Courtney Sullivan, chatting about her bestseller, Maine – a novel about generations of women visiting a family beach house and dealing with problems both personal and familial. This was the perfect book to lead into our summer season.
Attendees sign up to win a copy of J. Courtney Sullivan’s latest book.
Sullivan spoke about her books, her writing practices, and how she researches the settings of her novels.
Audience members asked many thoughtful questions of Sullivan during the Q&A portion of the program.
Sullivan took the time to chat individually with attendees while signing their books.
This was quite a packed season of author events, including two Special Events, and all of us at Thurber House hope you enjoyed them. We want to say a big THANK YOU for your support. We love bringing the diversity of writers to you and are already starting to consider our Fall line-up.
Finish one season of author events, and just around the corner is another—this time the 27th season of our Summer Literary Picnics. In years past, the picnics have always spotlighted Ohio authors, but this year, in honor of the Columbus Bicentennial, all five picnics will focus on Columbus authors. Information about each author can be found on our website. All the picnics—weather angels permitting!—are on the side lawn of the House. Bring quarters for those pesky parking meters along Jefferson!
Our picnics offer the option of ordering a delicious boxed dinner from Party Panache catering, or you can bring your own picnic spread – and you are welcome to bring alcoholic beverages as well. Tickets for dinner and the reading are $30, and tickets for the reading only are $15 (or $5 for children under 12). You can order tickets online here or by calling 614-464-1032 x.11.
The first picnic is Wednesday, June 13 and then June 27, July 11, July 25 and August 8. We can’t wait to see you there!
But wait—there’s more from Thurber House this summer! Also in honor of the bicentennial, Thurber House in partnership with Ohio State University’s Rare Books Libraries will have a special exhibit in the Center, next door to the House. It’s all about Columbus and Thurber: Past and Present with fantastic archival photos and even copies of Thurber’s report cards! It’s free and you can visit anytime but it might be fun to come early to the picnic and take a look before you e
By: John Hendrix,
on 6/6/2012
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I was asked to participate in a
group show celebrating Cartoon Network's 20th Anniversary, curated by Mark Murphy. A great list of artists have participated, and I had the pleasure of working on a tribute to one of my favorite CN shows, "Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends"
It is an unusual challenge to draw characters that were designed by another artist, while still keeping some of your own personal voice.
I'm selling prints of this image in my store, and the original will be for sale at Comic Con this summer. It will also hang in the Cartoon Network headquarters in Atlanta.
A few details of the critters below.
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By: Tomas Bjornsson,
on 6/6/2012
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Christian Stadil the modern businessman and the owner of Hummel
By: Jerry Beck,
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"Draw from life"
...is a phrase that every kind of artist, weather writing, dancing or drawing hears as they lean to create art.
It generally means that as we create art we need to see the life around us and put in what we create so there is truth in the stories we tell. Then people can relate to it, understand it, and probably love it.
But I want to talk about "drawing from life" in a slightly more literal sense.
A Memory
When I was in college we often had professional artists come to visit to teach us stuff, be cool and generally inspire us with the awe of what we could become. One of those was Walter Rane. It's safe to say he is my favorite artist today who paints religious themed paintings. I recommended giving his site a look
As part of his visit he attended my figure drawing class and drew with us. I remember the moment I sneaked up a little ways behind him with my friends and had a look at his drawing. He had chosen a spot to sit that gave him a view of the model's back, and more importantly the back of her head. This is a place that we as students probably had shunned wanting to draw interesting things like the face.
I remember looking at that drawing and seeing how he had drawn the back of the model's ear. It was amazing! In that moment I realized that even though I often drew while looking at the model I let my brain fill in the pieces it wanted to with out really seeing the full of life details that were right in front of me. I was drawing ears from my head. Lame.
This Sunday
I was at church drawing the people around me. Something I often do as I listen, but this week I decided to focus on certain details. I started with hair and moved onto ears. That's when I remembered my ear experience from college. I don't know how well I've applied this lesson to my art. I hope I can do a much better job "drawing from life" as I move forward as an artist.
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"Draw from life"For the visual artists the phrase has two meanings and if we take full advantage of both of them I think we can't help but create amazing art.
"Draw from life"
...is a phrase that every kind of artist, weather writing, dancing or drawing hears as they lean to create art.
It generally means that as we create art we need to see the life around us and put in what we create so there is truth in the stories we tell. Then people can relate to it, understand it, and probably love it.
But I want to talk about "drawing from life" in a slightly more literal sense.
A Memory
When I was in college we often had professional artists come to visit to teach us stuff, be cool and generally inspire us with the awe of what we could become. One of those was Walter Rane. It's safe to say he is my favorite artist today who paints religious themed paintings. I recommended giving his site a look
As part of his visit he attended my figure drawing class and drew with us. I remember the moment I sneaked up a little ways behind him with my friends and had a look at his drawing. He had chosen a spot to sit that gave him a view of the model's back, and more importantly the back of her head. This is a place that we as students probably had shunned wanting to draw interesting things like the face.
I remember looking at that drawing and seeing how he had drawn the back of the model's ear. It was amazing! In that moment I realized that even though I often drew while looking at the model I let my brain fill in the pieces it wanted to with out really seeing the full of life details that were right in front of me. I was drawing ears from my head. Lame.
This Sunday
I was at church drawing the people around me. Something I often do as I listen, but this week I decided to focus on certain details. I started with hair and moved onto ears. That's when I remembered my ear experience from college. I don't know how well I've applied this lesson to my art. I hope I can do a much better job "drawing from life" as I move forward as an artist.
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| Here is the sketchbook page from Sunday |
"Draw from life"For the visual artists the phrase has two meanings and if we take full advantage of both of them I think we can't help but create amazing art.
Above: page from my childhood autograph collection.
Just found out that Ray Bradbury died this morning at the age of 91. :-(
I always loved reading, but it wasn't until I read Ray Bradbury's Dandelion Wine that I became aware of style in writing. I'm generally a fast reader, but with Ray Bradbury's books I slowed way down so I could savour the language. His books helped me appreciate the importance of word choice, and also got me hooked on science fiction.
I wrote a song called "Homecoming" that was based on one of my favourite Ray Bradbury short stories, "The Rocket Man" (included in his R Is For Rocket short story collection). You can hear my group, Urban Tapestry, performing Homecoming in our live performance CD. I'm playing the rhythm guitar part on this track, Allison Durno plays lead guitar bits and Jodi Krangle sings lead. Allison and I sing some backup during the chorus. I've included the lyrics/chords below.
Even before I experienced family loss myself, I was deeply moved by this story and others by Bradbury. His writing affected me in so many ways, and was a major factor in my own desire to be a writer. I owe this man so much and had hoped to meet him in person someday.
For more info about Ray Bradbury, see http://www.raybradbury.com/
HOMECOMING
Words & music by Debbie Ridpath Ohi
Performed by Urban Tapestry (included on our live performance CD, Sushi and High Tea)
For all of my Portuguese-speaking friends, Lunch Lady #1 is now available in Portuguese! You can order
A Senhora da Cantina e o Substituto Ciborgue here.My favorite part of foreign translations of the Lunch Lady books is learning what the gadgets translate to. Well, scratch that. That's my second favorite part. My favorite part is the thought that kids who live on the other side of the planet, who speak a language I don't eve understand, can read one of my books. That is just mind-blowing!
Thanks so much for buying Marrowbones 2 everyone! The sales have let me buy food and get my website back up and running and I really , really appreciate that. That means I can make more comics! I have issue 3 written but need to complete Maddy Kettle and other contract work before I get to it. But soon! You can buy Marrowbones 1 and 2 for 3 dollars each by clicking the buy now button to the right.
Millie is definitely NOT in a hurry.
Two exciting things happened on the last day of the Jubilee holiday weekend. One of them was going to Birmingham's Book Bash festival and getting to see fancy Aston Hall and meet the Lord Mayor and a bunch of other great book creators.
The other was coming back from Birmingham to lots of nice tweets, texts, e-mails and a phone call from Stuart's Auntie Barbara, saying that they'd enjoyed watching me take part in Rolf Paints on the BBC. Hurrah! I didn't get to watch it on live telly, but Stuart and I watched it later on iPlayer. If you live in the UK, you can watch it for a week here on iPlayer. And the BBC has a Rolf Paints website here showing artwork from all the different artists and gives related links. I'm not sure if I'll be allowed to keep this video up, but I've copied some of the clips showing Rolf critiquing my lino cut print, and added a bit about comics artist Steve Marchant, so you could see his work from the day more clearly.
I've had a lot of people contacting me about a commemorative plate that Rolf mentioned on the show. I don't actually know anything about buying the plate, but I've sent an e-mail to the associate producer, asking her about it, and I'll post the information if I find out. The exhibition of our work runs from today until Sunday in the Old Vic Tunnels. (Details here.)
So more festival fun at Book Bash! I was doing a pirate event for You Can't Scare a Princess! so I drew the book's Captain Waffle doing some book bashing. Well, more like eating its cover off, but it's all in the same spirit.
Oo, and look, it's Nicholas Allan, creator of fabulous book The Queen's Knickers, Cinderella's Bum and loads of other funny picture books. Nick was in the news a lot recently because some glitch at Waterstone's had them accidentally printing out The Queen's Knickers on every receipt.
Heh, this picture made me laugh. It looks like someone made a bad smell.
A lovely visitor named Angela Masterson drew a portrait of me during my event and gave it to me:
Look, it's Peppa Pig! Poor Peppa, she really ought to turn sideways, I think her profile is much more flattering than full-frontal snout.
It was fun meeting Derby-based poet, writer and illustrator Chris White. He's been to Book Bash loads of times, and from the number of kids clustered around his signing table, has a real loyal local following.
Last time I was in Birmingham, I had a total blast with librarian Jen Bakewell. I was sorry not to get more time to hang out with her, but we still had a quick lunch together and swapped over the hat. And here's cookbook writer Fi Bird, who does wonders w
My best friend was born. Happy Birthday Mr. McKenzie!
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My poor little blog has been rather neglected of late. I do have a good excuse though; I have been very busy. Last weekend I was exhibiting my work, along with some other local artists, as a part of the Derbyshire Open Arts weekend. It was a great weekend.
We turned
Catriona's little barn into a lovely exhibition space, sent out the invitations and waited to see if anyone would turn up.
I was amazed by how many did. A huge thanks to everyone who went off the beaten track to find us. They came from far and wide (hey Louisa!) to see the arty loveliness our little barn had to offer. I'll post some photos when I get them back from Snappy Snaps.
Before the event I assumed I'd have three days to do lots of sketching. But, no chance. We were busy throughout which was great because there's nothing that makes me happier than sharing my sketchbooks with people.
You know up until quite recently the only artistic community I've been involved in is an online one. Being a part of that community has been amazing, and life changing, for me. It has enabled me to set up a blog, encouraged me to keep drawing, supported me in becoming a professional illustrator and always been there for advice on all sorts of things.
I had not, however, been involved in a local community of artists. In fact, for a long time, nobody even knew I was drawing like a maniac at home. It was my exhibition in Buxton, last summer, that brought me to the attention of a local audience and then everyone knew. Joining Sketchcrawl North a little while later made me realise the great things that come from being part of a group.
Exhibiting with this group of talented and generous artists over the weekend was a joy. I'm so happy that I've connected with a local arty community because you get good things from being with people. People who share your passion. So reach out because we are, after all, just chubby babies floating in a sea of tissue paper.
Check out the amazing work by my exhibtion mates;
Catriona Hall,
Sandra Orme and
Rob Wilson. And a big big thanks to the photographer, and my friend, Lynne McPeake for everything she does.
Where would we be without second chances?
No do-overs.
No recycling.
No erasers, delete key.
No breathing room.
It makes my lips numb just thinking about it.
I live off second chances
- art, words, and everything else!
What if there was a colossal rule
that you could only write One Draft?
No revisions allowed?
Aside from those sainted few who write a flawless novel to publication in three weeks,
where would we be?
Mummified, probably.
For my writer friends, I'm curious:
How many drafts do you average before your manuscript's submission worthy?
And author friends:
How many drafts do you endure before you have a finished book?
I think I stopped counting after Draft Two.
Hooray for working drafts, for do-overs, for sorries and second chances!
Remember
Wish baby?
A gift from my friend Margaret Bloom
of the lovely blog
We Bloom Here,
Wish baby was lonely for a new house.
Oatmeal box needed a second life.
Hello, scraps and glitter!
So far, it's been castle, tower, tunnel,
car wash, observatory, teddy bear, hat...
See?
Second chances!
or third, or fourth, or whatever it takes...
And speaking of second chances,
do you know about the DEVINE INTERVENTION Book Giveaway?
I just started
Martha Brockenbrough's YA novel
DEVINE INTERVENTION.
Brilliant! I'm hooked!
As I mentioned
here, I can't wait for you to read it!
Martha has graciously offered a free signed copy of DEVINE INTERVENTION to one lucky blog reader. Yippee!
Check out the contest here.I'm extending the deadline to give as many of you as possible a chance to win an excellent book!
You have until noon (pst) on Sunday, June 17 to enter.
Please do, and good luck!
Jordu Schell wants to scare the daylights out of you.
In Allentown, Pennsylvania last weekend, Schell gave a lecture about designing monsters for Hollywood movies. I'm an admirer of his work, so I sat up front and sketched him as he spoke about the things that scared him as a kid.
He started out by showing examples of weird animals in nature, then gave an overview of creature design in movies, and spotlighted some of his inspiration from the field of illustration, ending with examples of his own work.
Schell has done concept work for “Avatar”, “The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian”, “300”, “Hellboy”, “Aliens vs. Predator – Requiem” and many other films since he began in the field in 1987. He also makes props, masks, model kits, and effects — and he offers classes.
Jordu Schell website galleryVideo of a sculpture demoLarge gallery at Monster Brains
I love seeing other artists' processes, so I like to share my own now and then. I've been using these
Don Quixote pieces as a way to explore/experiment with my working methods, which have become more and more a mix of digital and traditional approaches.
After rereading
the chapter I intend to illustrate and making some notes, character sketches, and thumbnail composition sketches, I drew this sketch. Just pencil in my sketchbook. I scanned it at a high resolution and began to play with it in Photoshop.
The undead knight who is reclining with the cards is based on a sepulchral effigy from 1500s Spain.
Next, I added a paper texture I scanned years ago. This gives the image an old-fashioned, natural feel. I used a multiply layer.
Now that I have my sketch and a basic texture, I'm ready to start with the background. I tried a few different colors for the sky (one of the luxuries of digital work!), and settled on this green because I felt it gave the picture an eerie, off-kilter feel. The architecture of the castle is based on medieval/Renaissance buildings from Spain (the setting of the novel). Throughout Don Quixote, the Moorish culture is referenced, so I thought an allusion to that in the architecture would be fitting here. At the time the book was written, the Moors (Muslims) and Jews had recently been expelled from Spain.
With the background more or less in place, I painted a block of shade to create my basic value structure. I wanted the figures to be in shadow, almost silhouettes when you squint, and the background to be brightly lit.
Originally published on Writer Unboxed:
I'm posting some of my older comics here as I catalog and tag them in prep for a print book compilation. You can find my comics for writers on Inkygirl (http://inkygirl.com), Tumblr (http://inkygirl.tumblr.com) and Pinterest (http://pinterest.com/inkyelbows/comics-for-writers-inkygirl-com)
Part of my ongoing Don Quixote series (my favorite book). This is the Cave of Montesinos episode (Book Two, Chapter 23), one of the more surreal scenes in the novel.
In this chapter, Quixote bravely descends alone into a magical cave in which he finds a crystal palace housing an undead knight and a Moorish lady who safeguards his mummified heart. Among other bizarre things. Is it all a dream? Maybe.
The undead knight utters only one sentence as he turns over on his side: "Patience, and shuffle the cards." I've always loved that uncanny line.
Click to enlarge this newly released limited edition Paramount Pictures 100th Anniversary Poster, created by L.A.’s Gallery 1988. Comprised of graphic icons representing the studios biggest films – and I’m happy to report animation is well represented (I’m mean, all things considered – there’s no Popeye, Betty Boop or Casper but those were shorts and these buttons represent features). Look close and you’ll spot Max Fleischer’s 1939 Gulliver’s Travels, George Pal’s 1953 War of The Worlds; Beavis and Butt-head Do America (1996), South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut (1999) and The Spongebob Squarepants Movie (2004) also make the cut. Our condolences to Tintin, Rugrats and Jimmy Neutron – maybe next time.
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Kathleen Tom was born and raised in New York City. She spent several years pursuing the Fine Arts, while studying at Parsons School of Design. She now lives and draws in California. Visit her site for more work. Blog here.
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Pretty groovy. I want to watch an episode or two now.
Thanks W! That is such a great show...
Love it!! Foster's is one of the few cartoons made for kids these days that I can stand to watch. You captured them perfectly.
YES!