By: Christian Bocquee,
on 11/20/2014
By: Christian Bocquee,
on 11/19/2014
By: Christian Bocquee,
on 11/18/2014
By: Christian Bocquee,
on 6/22/2014
By: Gigi Moore,
on 6/26/2011
Here are the cutouts I designed and cut out of large pieces of cardboard. This years VBS theme is New York ‘Big Apple Adventure’. If i have time tomorrow I might do a large apple cutout and maybe a traffic light.
By: Gigi Moore,
on 10/5/2010
Finally finished my Winter Observation illustration.
By: Gigi Moore,
on 8/28/2010
Here’s a screenshot of my new painting I’m working on right now. I’m going for a really moody foggy look and have this strong cast of warm light from the street lamp. The shot below is the bare bones of how I start my paintings in PSD. I really don’t have any set “rules” on [...]
By: melanie977,
on 3/21/2010
By: Valerie Walsh,
on 6/19/2009
copyright 1994 Valerie Walsh/Marisol
By: Paula Pertile,
on 1/29/2009
© F X Leyendecker
By: Bambi,
on 5/23/2008
Last year I was in Miami for a conference, and afterward I rented a car for a few days and drove down to the Keys. I had been wanting to go there for years; it was the stuff of Jimmy Buffett songs and Carl Hiaasen novels. It’s too bad that Key West is so heavily touristified, but the Bahamian Village gives a pretty good indication of what it once was. It’s fabulous. There are roosters running in the streets—you can never go wrong with roosters running in the streets.
I stayed in the Bahamian Village in a guest house called the Angelina, which was a once a bordello, and now houses the most fabulous pool ever. Not because it’s particularly large, which it’s not, or particularly beautiful, which it also is not—but because it is open for swimming any time, and if you float on your back in the pool at night when it’s dark, you can watch the stars through a perfectly round opening in the palm trees that surround the pool. It’s like looking up through a hole in a ceiling, while the warm wind rustles the palm fronds and the stars shine incredibly brightly in a pitch black sky.
Heaven.
This is the view of the back of the guest house, drawn while eating breakfast on the far side of the pool. One of the resident cats took up in the lounger next to mine while I drew, and any time I got too engrossed in my drawing, she would take a swipe at my plate, trying to nab what was left of my croissant. I think in the end the cat ate more of it than I did.
By: Camille,
on 4/29/2008
Iggy Peck, Architect by Andrea Beaty, illustrated by David Roberts, Abrams, 2007
My first thought when I saw this book was how perfect it would be for the GT Architecture unit taught in my local school district. With humor and rhyme, Andrea Beaty describes young Iggy Peck, who has a passion for building even as a baby.
Young Iggy Peck is an architect
and has been since he was two,
when he built a great tower--in only an hour--
with nothing buy diapers and glue.
By: Bambi,
on 4/1/2008
Last May I returned to Paris. It had been ten years, and I had a few days to wander around and reacquaint myself. Despite a fair bit of rain, I spent most of the time browsing flea markets, sitting in cafés, and eating butter-laden baked goods. What else is one to do in France?
I had read about a fantastic bakery and made note of it some time before I left, figuring I would wander off and find it as my first-day-in-Paris journey—it’s always fun to have a mission. I knew it was out of the way a little, so I was looking forward to poking around some of the neighbourhood streets of less-than-central Paris. I was staying in the 12th in a lovely little hotel just steps from a metro stop, and as my flight was late getting in, I just made my way straight to my oh-so-inviting bed. In the morning I looked up the address of the bakery, figuring I would be good and ready for a pain d’amandes by the time I found it. To my delight, it was not only in the same arrondissement, but on the same boulevard as my hotel. I was right at the edge of the 12th and I knew I may still have a fair bit of walking to do, so I jotted down the name and set off. I walked down the lovely, creaking wooden staircase and out onto the sidewalk, and as I looked up, there—directly across the street—was the very bakery I had planned to visit. It was all of about 17 steps away. Needless to say there wasn’t much adventure to report in finding the place, but there WAS a piping hot pain d’amandes, to be sure.
When I was returning home I had an early afternoon flight, and so I zipped across the street and bought a huge bag of fresh croissants, pain au chocolat, palmiers and viennoise, and fit them into the one empty spot in my suitcase. I breezed through customs without incident, and about an hour after I returned from the airport several friends and family members came by for (nearly) fresh French pastries. It was heavenly—a highly recommended tradition to start after your next trip…
By: Bambi,
on 3/2/2008
In an interview a few days ago, I talked about the buildings along Kingsway, and why I’m so torn between my default position of wanting to preserve what remains, but also being ready for the new to creep in. I said that for some reason few, if any, of the buildings along Kingsway have quite enough charm or character for people to bother fighting to keep them—there is no possibility of the strip becoming a heritage-based district like, say, Vancouver’s Main Street or Yaletown. And I think the reason has more to do with Kingsway’s age than anything else. Looking at photos in the archives, it’s clear that this old boulevard was lined with stores and services from very early on in Vancouver’s history. Many of them were built in the late 1800’s and very early 1900’s, and at that time, buildings weren’t intended to last for a century—they were basically wooden boxes with false fronts, erected with a this-will-do-for-now mentality, from what I can see. At that time people were moving along and settling wherever they found an opportunity, and so the goal was to get something up, not plan for the long haul. For this reason, many of these buildings would have fallen apart after a few decades, and so I suspect that many of them had crumbled by the 60’s and were replaced then, during a time of pretty uninspiring building design. The odd one that did survive is just an old square shell, with no real redeeming qualities aside from its age. The areas that went up in the 20’s, even, were built to last a little longer—by then Vancouver had been settled for some time and would have felt more permanent. I suspect poor Kingsway was simply born a little too early, and reborn a little too late. Soon we’ll see how it fares the third time around.
On closer inspection, my last Kingsway illustration, based on an early 40’s archive photo, turns out to be one block west of Knight Street, at the intersection of Clark. And in the middle of that block two of the buildings from that time remain—I suspect this is one of the structures in the distance at the far left side of the illustration in Volume Four. And, in case you’re wondering, the jag in the middle isn’t a slip of my wrist, it’s very much a feature of the building. In studying this drooping old brute tonight, I was left with one overriding question: what could it possibly be like upstairs?
The rest of the series can be found here…
By: Emila Yusof,
on 1/11/2008
Hello friends! Happy 2008! Sorry I haven't been active in Monday Artday for the past few months. I hope to illustrate for MA every week from now on (I just made a resolution!). This is the first for 2008.
Happy Weekend to all!
By: pati @-;--,
on 11/18/2007
Emila is by far one of the sweetest and more talented girls in the Illo's virtual world. Her picture surprised me a lot, because I'm more familiarized with Norah's face. It happened to me the same with Zime, Jennifer and Zari; au contraire that Mike, Michelle and Colleen, who are exactly the same as their avatars ;)
This challenge has been awesome to me, I've managed to find some extra time for making these little tributes. I hope you like them. I enjoyed doing them a lot!
By: Emila Yusof,
on 10/28/2007
By: Emila Yusof,
on 10/19/2007
By: Emila Yusof,
on 10/1/2007
An illo I did for Illustration Friday's theme 'The Blues'. I love BB King! My all time favourite song is 'Thrill is Gone'. What's yours?
By: Emila Yusof,
on 9/29/2007
Hello friends! I haven't been in here for quite sometimes. I see that I missed all the great arts by all of you. I will try to make more time to post in here. Meanwhile, when I saw this week's theme, I thought I post my recently painted mugs.
By: Emila Yusof,
on 6/26/2007
This is an old post that I posted for IF submission few months back and thought is suitable for this week's challenge.
By: Emila Yusof,
on 6/19/2007
By: Emila Yusof,
on 6/19/2007
Hi guys! I have a bag to give away over at http://www.emilayusof.com/. Feel free to drop by and leave a comment to be in the running list.
I am still thinking of what to draw for the theme ' Glass'.
By: Emila Yusof,
on 6/14/2007
Digital: Illustrator & Photoshop
By: Emila Yusof,
on 6/6/2007
Ohh…I think this is going to be a good one. I love the red cloak and the white hand warmer….this could almost be a Christmas card!