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 [...]

The talented Fernanda Cohen is producing a children’s book workshop led by Selina Alko & Sean Qualls at the Society of Illustrators of NY on Wednesday, October 28th. Alko and Quall’s clients include Farrar, Straus and Giroux, Henry Holt, Scholastic, Lee & Low Books and Knopf. This event is perfect for illustrators who want to [...]

This is SO COOL. Aaron Zenz, illustrator and dad extraordinaire, created a blog called Chicken Nugget Lemon Tooty for his three kids (Isaac, Grace, and Lily) who draw and participate regularly in Illustration Friday. This month they are celebrating their 3 year anniversary and 250th post (wow!), and to do so posted an open invitation [...]

Geninne D. Zlatkis was born in NY, but has stretched her wings all over Latin America & the US before building her nest atop a mountain near Mexico City. There she lives with her husband and two sons while painting, sewing and embroidering adorable creations of all sorts. What has captured my fancy has been [...]

I have no idea what made me think of it, but lolling in my bathtub this morning, I found myself rolling the end title credits of the movie “Lemony Snicket’s Series of Unfortunate Events” through my head. In my humble opinion, the title credits were the best thing about the movie. I Googled it as [...]

need a little birdie in your artistic ear? check out this video (via TED) of maira kalman. thanks to christine for the pick-me-up!

you gotta read the story behind this doodle by paul pope.

Here’s another fantastic art project: “The Campaign for Drawing‘s aim is simple: to encourage everyone to draw. Its annual showpiece, The Big Draw, proves that drawing can be a public activity as well as a private passion.” The ninth Big Draw will run throughout October 2008 but I mention it now so that you have [...]