The New York Times offers this video of Maira Kalman discussing her column turned book turned opera.

my friend, daniel krall, is doing posting a lot of fun stuff on his blog. this drawing, for example, is his take on the fast food princess, wendy.

my entire afternoon was consumed by David Rubin’s blog. it’s a great place to flex one’s spanish reading skills* but the artwork speaks a universal language… well, my universal language anyway.

* if you don’t habla the español, babelfish can help.

i found a new kindred spirit and art hero this weekend. julie oakley’s drawings of her family and their life together struck a cord in me. in ten years, i hope my sketchbooks look just like hers.

do you like portraits? really beautifully painted portraits? check out the portfolio and blog of justin taylor!

my brother and sister celebrate a phenomenon that they call “the tuna fish special.” you have experienced it, i’m sure, when you talk about a movie and, soon afterwards, it airs on tv. they named it the tuna fish special because, once you utter that phrase, you will begin to see it everywhere. on menus. [...]

I resisted the urge to plagiarize Drawn when Matt Forsythe wrote about Nickelodeon’s wonderful Mona Lisa “Riffs.” Now that it’s becoming a phenomenon though, I feel no shame whatsoever.
Check out the Mona Lisa meme exploding on Drawn right this minute! You can submit your own version of Da Vinci’s masterpiece and browse contributions from other [...]

jeannette langmead (portrayed above by several of her portrait partners) won the first ever portrait party contest. i was blown away by how aggressively she competed! she sent new drawings almost every weekday and even made a movie of her work in progress. visit the august archive to see what i mean.