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The German artist Sigmar Polke, celebrated as an "early and astute adopter of American Pop art," died last Thursday in Cologne, Germany. He was 69. A refugee from East Germany, Mr. Polke grew up in Dusseldorf, where he began his career as an artist in the early 1960s. Sharply critical of communism and capitalism alike, Polke used a range of media, from painting to photography to watercolor, to parody both systems of politics and economics.
For more on the art and life of Sigmar Polke, see Sigmar Polke: History of Everything, Paintings and Drawings, 1998-2003, edited by John R. Lane and Charles Wylie.
Obituaries for Mr. Polke ran in the NYTimes and The Guardian, among other print and electronic publications
Sean T. Collins stumbled upon a bunch of old strips and whatnots that Kevin Huizenga had been digitally squirreling away, and got very excited, and who can blame him. They are aces.
These intriguing pages from Garrett Price’s cult strip, “Whte Boy”, are a strong reminder that the esthetic of what’s called “indie comics” these days would have dovetailed nicely with the more fleeting comic strip sensibilities of the early days of the strips — say up to about war time. It’s easy to see what attracts Huizenga to this work and what he’s taken from it for his own.
It would be very instructive if someone could mount an art show comparing them side by side some day, although the early strips can be hard to come by. Actually, come to think of it, the art show at the BGCF last year was pretty much what we’re talking about — it just needs to be up longer.
Ted McKeever chatted about his new META 4 with Michael Aushenker for PW Comics Week:
“What’s different [about META 4],” McKeever said, “is the lack of a specific central theme or category. In the past, I would find myself wanting to do a ‘political drama’ or an ‘apocalyptic horror’ tale. But here, I am allowing myself to weave through [different] subjects, and pull into it whatever is needed based on that given scenario. The challenge is to make it all work.”The key to that, he said, lies with the characters. “[They] have to be designed in such a way that they come across as subtly ‘real’ and yet malleable enough to show extreme emotions when called for,” McKeever said.
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Are you ready to see all the Star Wars sketch cards I did for the Topps ESB 30th anniversary? Really, you do? Ok...I'll show you since you are all so nice! hehe
I'll post a new group everyday until you are all sick of cute! then I'll post more and there will be kittens and hearts and glitter and big fluffy clouds....
This is from 1999 and I think I was looking at Lucian Freud alot. I was also living in Brooklyn and visiting the Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Brooklyn Museum of Art, MOMA, all those amazing places that now seem mega-miles away.
I was probably ten years old or younger the first time I visited the Met. How lucky I was to see all those paintings by Van Gogh, Degas, Monet, El Greco, Matisse, and on and on and on. I remember seeing a Monet from across the room, how it glowed! Of course I wanted to be an artist. I wanted to make something that beautiful.
The good news is I'll be in NY in August for a visit. I will visit as many museums as I can and try to absorb it all. I just googled The Met and here's one of the exhibitions that will be up while I'm in NY:
An Italian Journey: Drawings from the Tobey Collection, Correggio to Tiepolo
Yeh, baby!
I'll be taking my Italian journey. I guess it's been my Italian journey all along.
Louise, a Narwhal; 5×7 watercolor & ink
I’ve just added to le shop a 5×7 print of my original watercolor and ink drawing: Louise, a Narwhal. You may not know this, but narwhals are very sensitive creatures and have the ability to feel great empathy for other living things.
For every Louise print sold, 100% of the proceeds will be donated to the National Audubon Society, in an effort to help with the BP oil spill clean up in the Gulf of Mexico.
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As we are busy blaming “BP” for messing up the Gulf of mexico I would suggest a solution for oil barriers along the beautiful beaches there and in fact all along our coastlines. First I will direct you to search floating “debris in the gulf of Mexico”.
There are enough objects floating there that if gathered and strung along the beaches could cover all the coastlines of our country I believe. It is floating so we would not have to buy new floating barriers, all we need is nets, which could be made from shredding more of the junk out in the ocean. “BP” didn’t put it there, it came from the cities along the waterways that feed into the gulf.
Though much of it is oil byproducts washed out from storm drains, a lot came from the “Beautiful” beaches and those “Valuable tourists” that are so afraid of getting a tar ball on their tootsies visited and left behind. They should come back and volunteer to help clean it if they really care!
I also propose instead of dredging sand that will destroy animal habitat we build berms of the garbage that came from those beaches in the first place. It may be ugly, to say the least, but it would do more for the fish and birds in the region that get trapped in it than any other thing I can think of, just cover it with a small portion of sand from the tourist beaches.
The wild life doesn’t want it and it’s only fare that the people that made it take it back and recycle it or something. They need to pay for every bit of the pollution just like “BP”, all of us who let that junk float out to sea should pay for it to be cleaned up!
If an honest look at what is in the ocean was taken “BP” would look like small potatoes or in this case oil byproduct pollution.
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Where the Cardinals Sleep; 8.5 x 11 watercolor on paper
This is one of those pieces that had a very humble beginning. I’m acquiring a much better habit of sketching to just draw and see where that takes me.
The other night Tim Burton’s Sleepy Hollow was on TV and with hot chocolate in hand (seems like there’s almost always hot chocolate involved any task I do!) I drew this lass, a cardinal friend. Can you see references to the movie? I think they kind of snuck in there unconsciously.
This watercolor and its sociable birds remind me of the time when I was younger…I was outside on my parents’ porch while my mom watered her garden. The birds always liked to come by when she was doing this, perhaps because the fresh water was so much better than any standing pools they could find. A house finch flew down from the birch trees and landed on my arm, Sleeping Beauty-style. I was in a state of delight and concern for I had never experienced an encounter such as this - was this bird really friendly or was she trying to tell me something? She looked at me and chirped and hopped from side to side a bit. She jumped onto my shoulder just before tweeting her good-bye and flying back up into the trees.
In the Program Room today we are celebrating Frank Lloyd Wright’s Birthday with a Building with Froebel Blocks activity and a Geometric Stained Glass art experience. If you’re unable to visit the museum, see our tips for play below and the activity included to involve your little one in the celebration at home!
Looking at Art with your Child:
Look at images of Frank Lloyd Wright’s buildings and the decorative elements of his buildings with your child. Discuss the shapes, lines, and colors that you observe together. Encourage curiosity by asking open-ended questions i.e. What do you see? What do you like or dislike about the buildings? Who do you think lives inside each of the buildings?
Activity 1: Froebel Blocks
Froebel Blocks refer to gifts used in the Froebel system of kindergarten introduced at the 1876 World’s Fair. Blocks were sold and Frank Lloyd Wright’s mom actually brought these exact blocks home for him. Wright later cites these blocks as one of his first influences that sparked his interest in architecture and building. It is never too early to be thinking about what your child would like to be when they grow up!
If you don’t have Froebel Blocks at home you can use any blocks you have around the house to become a Frank Lloyd Wright inspired builder! Talk to your child about what the word architect means in terms they can grasp and understand. For example, an architect is someone who decides how they want a building to look and plan out the structure using drawings. Invite your child to pretend to be an architect with you by building with blocks.
Encourage your child to use the blocks to represent things from their daily life. For example, one block can represent your house while the other block may represent the tree outside your driveway. Create a story to go along with your building. Continue to encourage associations and stories that expand your child’s vocabulary and imagination at the same time!
Activity 2: Make your own Geometric Stained Glass
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• Wax Paper
• Tissue Paper
• Watered Down Glue
• Paintbrushes
Directions:
• Mix ½ cup water with ¼ cup glue with paintbrush
• Cut a sheet of wax paper to the size you would like- We use 5x7 sheets but you can make your stained glass as large as you would like- allow your child to make the choice of what size paper they would like to use
• Cut shapes out of the tissue paper. Explore concepts of color, shape and size with your child as they cut the shapes out. Try cutting out basic geometric shapes:
Possum and Wattle – My Big Book of Australian Words by Bronwyn Bancroft was a recent impulse buy – I simply couldn’t leave the shop without a copy…
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This A-Z book of single words each individually illustrated is a great introduction to Australian, and more particularly Aboriginal culture. Some words are instantly recognisable as “Australian”, such as joey, possum, didgeridoo or boomerang, whilst others were new to me and my kids eg quandong (a tree bearing bright red, edible fruit), quokka (a small wallaby found on Rottnest and Bald islands off the coast of Western Australia), willy-willy (a spiralling wind of dust, like a small whirlwind) and yabby (an edible crayfish).
There’s a third group of words which we initially wondered why they had been selected as especially Australian eg sun and snowflake, but that’s where the glossary at the back of the book came in very helpful – for most of the words which appear in the book there is a sentence or two about them, explaining what the word means (“wobbegong: a type of shark with a flat body that lives on the bottom of the sea“) or why it has been included (“sun: According to Aboriginal dreaming, the sun came out of the earth. The sun is central to the Aboriginal flag.“)
Through just a small selection of Australian vocabulary M, J and I have been able to explore and discuss and think about lots of different aspects of Australian Aboriginal culture and for this alone the book is a welcome addition on our bookshelves, but I’d be lying if I pretended it wasn’t the illustrations that keep bringing us back to read the book again and again.
Bronwyn Bancroft’s father was Bundjalung – the Bundjalung people are Australian Aborigines whose homeland is on the northern coastal areas of New South Wales (Australia) and the illustrations in this book are so-called “dot” art, perhaps the most recognisable form of Aboriginal painting (click here for a helpful introduction to Australian Indigenous art).
We all adore the illustrations – you can’t help but feel cheerful when you look at them but I also have one tiny gripe about the artwork. Although the book includes great contextual information on the words chosen, there is no background information on the pictures and painting technique, and I think this is a lost opportunity. For example, I would have liked to find out if “dot” art is common to all Aboriginal groups, or whether it is a specifically Bundjalung tradition (perhaps a blog reader can give us some information here? 
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This is a rough sketch for an illustration I'm doing for AMA magazine. I may post the color final when it's finished. I'm doing the color art in Illustrator.
The 10th Annual ABC Games presented by U.S. Airways kick off this Friday!
The Rainforest Rhythm gallery will once again be transformed into a nature themed obstacle course, with one of the highlights being a miniature rock climbing wall! The Games kick off with an Opening Day ceremony this Friday, June 4th at 10 a.m. featuring a parade through the 
museum led by our Flag Corps and concluding with the lighting of the "ABC Games Torch."
The ABC Games are a part of Please Touch Museum's Get Up and Grow™ healthy lifestyles initiative designed to enhance the lives of families by promoting healthy living to children. It's a lighthearted, interactive, content-based approach to teaching lifelong habits that result in healthier, happier families through compelling resources, exhibits, messaging, events and open-ended play. Physical fitness can easily be incorporated on a daily basis, for instance, make walking outside enjoyable by naming the trees or flowers that you see along the way!
Throughout June, visitors will be able to participate in an ABC Olympic Flag Printing activity in the Program Room, which will teach them about the Olympic Flag and the Olympic Games, all while working on hand-eye coordination, spatial reasoning, symmetry and patterns.
Here are some active lifestyle and sports-related questions you can ask your children during your visit, or at home to further engage them:
- About Olympics: Have you heard of the Olympics before? What are the Olympic Games? Do you know any of the sports that are in the Olympic Games? How about in the Summer Olympics? Do you know where the Summer Olympics recently took place? If you were competing in the Games, which sport(s) would you play?
About ABC's: Do you know your ABC’s? Do you know how many vowels are in the first 5 letters of the alphabet? How about in the whole al
Every line counts for Texas based illustrator and artist Toby Thane Neighbors. Created as part of the Story Motel group show at the Owl & Lion Gallery, this illustration successfully weaves warm tones and detailed lines to transport us to the old frontier. Neighbors has a nice way of cataloging objects in his works, and this piece is no exception with its bag of bullets, feather, and hungry badger at the heels of the pensive gamekeeper.
Neighbors has a nice collection of work, ranging from caricatures to elaborately designed illustrations of folkloric figures from the old West. Be sure to see more of his work at his website.
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I needed to do something creative but fun today so I made a Scribble Sheet! Apparently, only a few minor details have changed since childhood, such as the ability to listen to explicit music legally. Have you checked out Lisa Currie (aka OPPY's) The Scribble Project? Do it! You should totally make one of these too!
While you do that, I'm going to write Maria a letter and we both can wait for Jonathan Taylor Thomas' comeback!
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I received my BFA in Illustration in 1985. Then moved to NYC and took classes at the Art Students League of NY with Marshall Glasier, a very brilliant and talented artist who did not see illustration as art.
Not to scandalize all my illustrator friends, whom I admire and respect, but I understood his point. Art is where you can make anything you want in any way you want. Illustrators work within parameters: of the text or the concept or whatever your client is looking for. Of course lots of amazing art happens within those parameters (Beatrix Potter! William Steig!) But there is a difference.
I gave up on being an illustrator so I could be a 'real' artist. I painted in the lonesomeness of my studio, which was usually just a corner of my bedroom. I took lots more classes. Did alot of figure drawing and self-portraits. Morphed into an abstract painter. And had a kid.
And rediscovered picture books. Drew my kid. Decided I'd like to get paid for what I do well (instead of working as a secretary, teacher's aide, jeweler's assistant, and on and on) So I bought a new set of rapidographs (and they did look beautiful to my eyes) and put together a portfolio. Starting to get some work. Featured on the wonderful Pen & Palette. Have several illustrations in the SCBWI Bulletin.
So what am I now? A painter who is delving into illustration? An illustrator who used to be an abstract painter? A little bit of both, I guess. I have to admit, I do miss dripping and throwing paint onto canvas (I suppose I could do that in my illustrations, but it's not the same-- art serves its own purpose, unlike illustration)
You might disagree with me. That happens sometimes. You may believe there is no difference between fine art and illustration. I think there is a difference-- for example, most illustrators I know who've been working for a good number of years and have talent, get paid for what they do, at least sometimes. Unlike most of the painters I know.
So go ahead and tell me why I'm wrong, if you want. Or you can just enjoy the picture.
More middle ages fun.
Heraldry:
• Roger the Herald’s Notes on Blazonry. Wonderful starting point for learning the language of blazonry. Sable, a lion rampant or, in chief azure three stars or. There’s a game set inside a story, for helping you get the lingo down. Huge hit with Beanie.
• design your own coat of arms
• SCA heraldry primer
Illumination:
• Book of Kells
• The Fitzwilliam Museum’s interactive animation about how illuminated manuscripts were made. This is extremely cool.
• SCA Illumination pool at Flickr Examples of recent work by members of the Society for Creative Anachronism. It awes me to see people putting so much care and time into mastering this ancient art. There is some truly stunning work here.
• Gutenberg School for Scribes. A how-to site for people interested in trying their hand at illumination.
• Wynn the Wayward. An SCA scribe doing breathtaking work.
Books:
Some Dover activity books have made their way into our middle ages collection.
• Design Your Own Coat of Arms (has been a big hit)
• Life in a Medieval Castle and Village Coloring Book
• Medieval Fashions Coloring Book (there’s a paper dolls version too—these are some of those gorgeous books by Tom Tierney).
Earlier this month, The Longest Day: Celebrating the Summer Solstice, which is written by Wendy Pfeffer and illustrated by Linda Bleck, was released by Dutton Children’s Books. The Longest Day is non-fiction, but it reads like fiction since Pfeffer paints vivid in the reader’s mind with the language she purposefully selects. The vivid language she [...]
Today's post comes to us from Phillip Stead, author of the newly released A Sick Day for Amos McGee. Phillip collaborated with his wife, Erin, on this picture book (Erin's (ADORABLE) illustrations are here):
Well, as I write this the Detroit Tigers are playing a night game on the West Coast which means I’ll be up pretty late. I like to listen to Tigers radio while I work. It’s the perfect background noise for art making. It’s less perfect for writing and typing though so I apologize in advance for any tyypos or errrOrs.
A question I get a lot is: So what are you working on next? The truth is, a lot of times I don’t know. I have very little control over when and how a story will come to me. Often they come at inopportune times. A few weeks ago the entire outline for a story came to me in a flash while I was driving on Interstate 94 from Ann Arbor to Detroit. Driving 70 miles per hour without a pen or pencil in reach, I was desperate to get home before the ideas disappeared to that special place where forgotten things go to live—a place not reachable via I-94.
A Sick Day for Amos McGee was different. It was the first time I ever sat down with the thought: I am going to write a story today. I wanted to write a story specifically for my wife, Erin. Nobody draws animals (especially elephants!) quite like Erin. She has a knack too for illustrating the unusual relationships that people can have with animals. I thought about the things Erin draws best and the story characters came to me with no effort at all—an elephant, a penguin, a rhinoceros, a tortoise, an owl, and their good friend Amos McGee, an elderly zookeeper. A Sick Day for Amos McGee is a simple, quiet story about Amos and his daily routine—chess with the elephant, races with the tortoise, story time with the owl. On a day when Amos is feeling under the weather his good friends board a bus and come over for a visit. The animals do for Amos all of the things that Amos normally does for them. It’s a story about friendship, it’s a story about the unusual but strong relationships that a person can have with animals, and it’s a story I really couldn’t have illustrated myself, at least not well as Erin, who I think has done a beautiful job.
One of the greatest challenges of being an artist is never being satisfied. Does this sound familiar to you: once I make something the next thing I want to do is create something new. OR, and even worse, start judging and editing the piece I just finished. Can a girl get some satisfaction up in here?
I edited this post because I didn't know what I wanted to achieve with it. Such a fantastic example of how blogging about art even leaves room for expectation. Ok, I feel satisfied now.
This weekend I will be participating in the Decatur Arts Festival Artwalk.
The 3rd Annual
Children’s Book Illustrator’s Show
hosted by Little Shop of Stories and the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators, Southern Breeze region during ArtWalk Opening Night for the Decatur Arts Festival. Friday, May 28, 2009, 5 to 9 PM at Little Shop of Stories 133 East Court Square, Decatur, Georgia, USA
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After I sketched this out, it occurred to me that Dr. Seuss had already drawn a cat wearing a hat. I decided to finish the picture anyway.
Cats Wearing Hats
After finishing the drawing and I realized that it works for three illustration prompts. Here’s my reasoning: The CBIG blog’s May theme is, “Dream.” This picture is obviously a dream. No self respecting cat would ever wear a hat (at least not without a fight). WaWe’s challenge this week, is “Outdoor Fairs Festivals and Markets.” These cats are obviously on their way to a festival. Why else would they be wearing hats? Finally, it also works for the Illustration Friday word this week, “early,” because the early cats get to wear the hats (and that’s an early bird in the upper left, going home after getting her worm).
What do you think? Does it work for all three prompts?
* For those that like to know art supply details, I used Prismacolor pencils, acrylic paint, and acrylic inks (one of my ink bottles spilled all over the table, almost ruining the drawing – I was lucky to be able to save the table and the drawing).
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I’ve seen enough Price and Johnson and Dean at this point that while I really enjoy seeing more, they don’t hit me in that stash the way they did the first time I saw them–what did it more for me was seeing stuff by Kiersh and Hankiewicz I’d never seen, since I’ve read so much by them that I can really appreciate seeing where they came from before I tuned in. Whereas with the old-timers, I don’t have that thoroughgoing familiarity with their work, so it all hits me in more or less the same way. Does that make sense?