By: rama,
on 7/27/2007
yay, amanda! i was so excited to see your post!
amy earles, aka wool & water, made these gorgeous paper doll portraits of my wife and me. they were drawn from our wedding invitations but she took the idea a dozen steps farther with the colors, details, and accessories. every joint is hinged and the figures are attached to the background so they were easy to frame. seeing the piece in person took my breath away. thanks again, amy!
By: Camille,
on 7/8/2007
3-D ABC: a sculptural alphabet by Bob Raczka. Millbrook Press, 2007
Bob Raczka writes terrific books about art for children. His excellent Here's Looking at Me: How Artists See Themselves should be in every art teacher's collection. In 3-D he explores sculpture. Using an ABC book format, he presents a wide range of concepts and media.
His subjects are well chosen to engage young imaginations. Each work is presented with full attribution which includes the title, the artist, the date and the location of the piece. A page at the back gives full credit for the photography in the book too. The importance of properly citing resources and giving credit to the work of others should be and must be continually emphasized to students.
Everything works in this book from the clear typography to the clean layout. The art is beautifully photographed and tagged with a letter of the alphabet.
Concert for Anarchy by Rebecca Horn at the Tate Gallery in London is an inverted grand piano, hanging in midair with the keys spilling downward. It illustrates "U is for Upside Down."
A sculpture can make you look at things differently,
A Sculpture can make you Smile
By: penelope,
on 6/25/2007
Patrick Dougherty is a different kind of scultptor. Instead of traditional materials, he uses branches and twigs as his medium, creating large forms that are like whimsical things from fairy tales. They aren’t found in do-not-touch museums… they are out in the open: On restaurant fronts, in parks, in offices. You can walk up on them and touch them. So beautiful… Check out the videos on this page.
By: Jago,
on 6/20/2007
Here's what I've been working on recently...
Illustrations for an educational anthology by Harcourt, these are for a Kiowa folk tale about how the sun came to be in the sky. I'm really pleased with how they turned out, and I finished them a week ahead of schedule.
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