Archive for January, 2010
EFII Contest
Hi! I just wanted to make you aware of a fun little contest going on over at Escape from Illustration Island. The rules are easy: all you have to do is participate in Illustration Friday topics for the whole month of February (so 4 total). Post your illos here at IF like you normally do, [...]
Posted: January 31st, 2010 under contests/projects.
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Axe Cop! and Tiny Art Director
Thanks to Metafilter I was introduced this week to two great sites involving art with kids that gave me more than a few laughs: Tiny Art Director – Bill Zeman documents the process of taking art direction from his four year old daughter. The book of their collaborations will be published in April by Chronicle [...]
Posted: January 29th, 2010 under artists, children's art, comic.
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Betsy Snyder’s Sweet Dreams Lullaby
Betsy Snyder’s charming new children’s book, Sweet Dreams Lullaby, has hit book stores this week and on her blog she shares some of her creative process.
Posted: January 27th, 2010 under artists.
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Hallmark 100 Years!
I came across this great studio picture of Hallmark circa the 1930′s. Check it out bigger and with more vintage Photos of Hallmark’s past 100 years over at the Hallmark Blog.
Posted: January 8th, 2010 under studio life.
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IF Interview with R. Gregory Christie
Interview conducted by Yuko Shimizu. 1) When we hear your name, we immediately think of your prolific and multiple award winning children’s book career. But you first broke into the world of illustration from nightclub scene, then to whole bunch of jazz album covers. I am curious to know if you ‘fell’ into children’s books [...]
Posted: January 6th, 2010 under Interviews.
Comments: 13
Illustration Pages blog
A new blog about illustration is out on the web. Illustration Pages specifically highlights Facebook pages of artists. They just featured Illustration Friday (thanks!). Looks like they have other goodies for you to check out. Also, you can be featured as well if you’re a Facebooker. Click here for submission guidelines. Cheers!
Posted: January 5th, 2010 under artists.
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Master of the Month :: Frank Lloyd Wright
Frank Lloyd Wright is recognized as “the greatest American architect of all time.” Before he was born in 1867, his pregnant mother said that Frank would grow up to create beautiful buildings. She encouraged her baby boy by hanging engravings of buildings in his crib and letting him play with special building blocks when he [...]
Posted: January 2nd, 2010 under artists.
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Pomfolio Giveaway Round Two
Welcome to 2010! We’re continuing our giveaway of Pomfolio accounts – today we’re giving away TWO. Same as always, leave a comment on this post and I’ll use a random number generator to pick two lucky winners from the comments tonight at midnight. Here’s last week’s entry with last week’s winner, Ira. Pomfolio is a [...]
Posted: January 1st, 2010 under artists.
Comments: 14