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Blog: Fire It Up! (Login to Add to MyJacketFlap)
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Esteemed YA writer and dress-upperer extraordinaire Leanne Hall recently asked:
And we’re so glad she did!
If you’re looking for a road-trip book list, check out our previous post here.
If you’re after museums and galleries, read on:
A Pocketful of Eyes by Lili Wilkinson
Beatrice May Ross signed on for a summer job at the Museum of Natural History. Then her supervisor turns up dead in the Red Rotunda, his pocket full of glass eyes. Taxidermist turns detective in this museum-based crime-fiction.
I may be stretching the definition a little, but if you’re after an arty YA book, you really can’t go past Graffiti Moon. Lucy is an artist who works with glass. She’s trying to meet the mysterious graffiti artist known as Shadow. There are many beautiful descriptions of Lucy’s and Shadow’s respective artworks, as well as many references to well known artists and their works, from Picasso to Bill Henson. You can view a great online gallery of the art featured in the book over here.
Notes from the Teenage Underground by Simmone Howell
Three best friends, Gem, Lo, and Mira, undertake themed summer projects together. The “underground” summer starts when a school visit to the National Gallery of Victoria inspires Gem to make an underground film.
Same Difference by Siobhan Vivian
Emily attends a summer art program in Philadelphia – world’s apart from her old suburban existence, just like she wants. As well as following Emily’s growth as an artist (and an individual), there’s also a class trip to a museum.
(Not yet published in Australia.)
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Blog: An Illustrator's Life For Me! (Login to Add to MyJacketFlap)
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Next morning though, we spurned the sun, leaped on the tube and got down to the real business of the trip: the Hockney exhibition at the RA. I've been so looking forward to it since we booked the tickets back in January.
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It is the variety of styles and techniques in the work on display that really makes this show special though. Katie Viggers's printmaking, Kazuno Kahora's bold, limited colours, Jez Alboroughs's soft paintings, Shirley Hughes's blend of sketchy line and colour - there is just so much to see. The choice of illustrators is really interesting too, from old-hands like Shirley, and of course our ex-laureate Anthony Browne, through to exciting, relative new-comers, like Joe Berger, Viviane Schwarz and Chris Haughton, amongst many others.
It is hung in an interesting way too, really pointing up the breadth of approach that's possible in children's publishing. My 1 Comments on Excellent Exhibition of Children's Book Illustration, last added: 2/3/2012
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Yesterday afternoon, all the artwork went off to the Salford Gallery ready for my illustration exhibiton. I can't believe it's come round so soon.
I have also sent the gallery a DVD of the Open College videos made last year, which we will be showing on a loop.
The show opens in July. Don't worry though - there's no way I'm going to let you forget!
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On Tuesday I had a visitor to the studio: Amy Goodwin, curator of Salford Art Gallery, came to talk about my exhibition next year.
Do you remember the exhibition in Tameside?
Well, we always hoped it would tour but, with times as they are, it's taken a while. Everything has been tucked away in bubble-wrap since this time last year. Now though, it's being dusted off and spruced up, with new work and lots of additional ideas to bring it bang up to date.
We will be keeping the best of the children's activities, like Stinky and his stick-on flies...
...the monkey's tea party...
...and the child-swallowing anaconda from Class Two at the Zoo:
But it's a much bigger space this time, and Salford have their own budget, so we will be building new things too.
There will be a more substantial drawing / writing area and we might well mock up a big version of the story-making machine from my website:
Amy had a great idea for hand-painting a massive dinosaur mural on one wall, and building a big, hinged, wooden flap, to mock-up one of the dinos from my flap-books Gnash Gnaw Dinosaur! and Rumble, Roar, Dinosaur!
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Exciting news: I have just been contacted by Salford Art Gallery, who have decided to show my exhibition next summer - whoopee!
When Tameside Gallery did all the work on the original exhibition last year, designing the show and investing in the framing, activity centres etc, the idea was that they would hire it out, to tour other galleries, but because of things being the way they are just now, it got mothballed instead.
But it's back up and kicking! Looks like a nice space too:
We are talking about maybe updating the show, by including examples of my most recent projects, like Bears on the Stairs, Dragon's Dinner and Rumble, Roar, Dinosaur!, none of which were completed at the time. Early stages though. I'll keep you posted...
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I was in Portland, Oregon for a conference on Visual Communication in June. (Yeah, it’s almost August; yes, I’m that far behind). I just have to post about the whole darn city, it’s so great. Normally in any given town I only find about three shops that truly appeal to me… in Portland, there are whole neighbourhoods filled with them! Indie bookshops, Powell’s Books (the mother of all second hand book shops), vinyl record stores, vintage clothing, antique stores specializing in the weird, artist-run galleries, more artist run galleries, craft and art museums, restaurant patios, and multiple brew pubs. And it’s pretty affordable to be a tourist in, with good public transit, almost as many bicycles as Amsterdam, and cheap eats.
Normally we post on specific artists here on Drawn, but I’m going to praise the whole city, because a supportive city helps the arts flourish – and Portland seems to have done a great job of it. The civic planners and the artists deserve credit. I didn’t get to all the arts districts, but the Alberta Arts District really works well. There, you can find places like Together Gallery, and Monograph Bookwerks, which specializes in fine art books. The photo above MIGHT be from Together’s back area… it had a great selection of zines and other DIY… I didn’t do the greatest job of keeping track what I photographed. Maybe someone can confirm??? I also loved Ampersand Gallery, which has vintage ephemera, art books, and a lot of things related to photography.
If I were American, this is where I would go live and draw….
Below: street art on Alberta Street.
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Blog: An Illustrator's Life For Me! (Login to Add to MyJacketFlap)
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John and I had a day off last Friday. We took the train to Liverpool, to hit the galleries.
The only other time I've been to Liverpool was over 20 years ago. I was deciding where to set up home: I had to get out of London in the '80s (to somewhere I could afford to buy a house). I stayed with my brother, in Chester, and did day-trips on the train to various 'cities of The North'. I chose Sheffield, where I met John. And the rest, as they say, is history.
We started at the Walker Art Gallery. It's the perfect size, manageable in a morning, but big enough to house a wide range of periods, with some wonderful paintings.
There were some excellent special exhibitions on too: I love Toulouse-Lautrec, and they had dozens of his prints, including all those posters we know so well. Also (until end of Sept), the most extraordinary collection of glass dresses by Diana Dias-Leao:
We had a lovely, lazy lunch in the sunshine at Albert dock, then had a look round The Tate, which had a great sculpture room, full of vastly different interpretations of the human form, from Ron Mueck's creepy hyper-realism to Sarah Lucas's disturbing 'Pauline Bunny' made from stuffed tights.
We raced back across town afterwards, to catch the World Museum, but it was just closing, so had to settle for a glass of wine in a bar instead (shame...).
The drawings are of course my train sketches. I was a bit limited for victims on the way home and had to resort to drawing John - asleep, as always.
It was a bit of a long haul, because the train sat still for 35 mins, and we got very tired as it was horribly hot a
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As of today we have a new weekly feature on Leaky, which will bring you a round up of the latest happenings of the Harry Potter actors. This week, there have been a number of stories related to the Harry Potter actors in the news this week. Firstly, our Order Partner RupertGrint.net reports that Universal Pictures UK will be distributing "Cherrybomb" in the U.K. later this year. Mr. Grint plays... Read the rest of this post
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I have really enjoyed my break - we decided to whizz off for 3 days in Paris! It's over 15 years since John and I were last there, when we were first together.
It was a bit chilly for hanging around outside, so we pounded the halls of as many galleries and museums as we could fit in, before our feet withdrew their services in protest.
John was keen to visit the Louvre for the Mona Lisa and Venus de Milo.
My favourite was probably the Musee d'Orsay, where they keep the bulk of the post-impressionist work. I can never get enough of it: the colour combinations make my blood zing! Totally inspiring.
It's astonishing too, standing in a room surrounded by paintings, every one of which is so famous that it's worth millions. Weird.
And we had to visit Monet's waterlilies of course. Fabulous.
The Orangerie is such a great space too: emanating calm in the centre of the city, like a secular cathedral to colour and light...
I took my sketchbook as you can see, but with such a short time and so much to pack in, I hardly opened it in Paris itself. At the top is a breakfast stop in a cafe, waiting for the Arts et Metiers to open. I highly recommend the museum: a massive collection of technological inventions through the ages, including the first flying machines, like this one:
Plus the earliest computers, all sorts of working models, and even Foucault's Pendulum, hanging all the way down from the apex of a chapel.
I got great feedback on my switch to the new Suits theme. Now I’m seeing it everywhere! Schadenfreude.
Great post! Although, I admit, the reason I clicked on this is because of the awesome cappuccino picture.
Coming next week – Spring Cleaning your blog? Very interested and looking forward to reading that. Mine could use a good “once over” : )
Loved this weeks features. Especially photo blogging. Love WordPress!
Spring cleaning? I think I need more of a total makeover… I’m stuck at the ~ 200 views per day stage..
I’m sure there are many who’d be thrilled to be stuck at that stage with you!
Yes Rick, i’d like 200 views per day…lol
Ha, I didn’t think of if from that perspective while I’m busy toiling in the trenches…thanks for the reset!
Loved this post! However, the cappuccino did catch my attention! hahahah
Thanks WordPress.com!
Great coffee on a monday morning ( or any day of the week!) gets me every time!
I know its not Monday, but I sure could use a cup of coffee right now.