sheep is at lunch

ohhh ahhhh!

2011-11-05T12:02:00.001-07:00

YES!!!!

2011-10-21T08:59:00.000-07:00

from here.

hee.

2011-09-13T15:38:00.001-07:00

amazing!

2011-09-11T09:16:00.000-07:00

Bad Things That Could Happen from This Is It on Vimeo.

bruce mau

2011-08-26T15:25:00.000-07:00

I saw this on your school friend's wall on my birthday - very good stuff:

Lots more here: http://www.brucemaudesign.com/4817/112450/work/incomplete-manifesto-for-growth

on writing

2011-06-22T12:52:00.000-07:00

There's only one person who needs a glass of water oftener than a small child tucked in for the night, and that's a writer sitting down to write. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966

Loafing is the most productive part of a writer's life. ~James Norman Hall

The most essential gift for a good writer is a built-in, shockproof shit detector. This is the writer's radar and all great writers have had it. ~Ernest Hemingway, interview in Paris Review, Spring 1958

little things to remember

2011-06-18T11:01:00.000-07:00

hey shp, you never post on here anymore...

Anyway, just thought I'd share some advice I came across while researching gluten free life (I know, it's a cliche these days, but I'll explain why I'm giving it a try next time we chat on phone.)

From here:

"5. Some people are velvet hammers. They slipcover their will with flattery and soft persuasion. And some people are just hammers. And they are exhausting.

6. You always feel better after taking a walk.

12. It's really not about you. It's all about them.

14. There are certain people who bring out the best in you. Just being around them raises your game, makes you a better version of yourself. Let go of those who whittle you down, little by little, to fit you into their smaller experience of the world.

20. Control deflates love.

24. Eat more quinoa. It's easy. It's vegan protein. And it's good for you.

25. When someone is taking your photograph don't face them squarely, front forward. Turn your shoulders and hips to one side. Unless you've just eaten a huge bowl of guacamole.

27. The most potent sexual organ is your heart.

28. Baking bread makes a house feel like a home.

42. Trying to fit in rarely works out. You can try it on for size, but the chafing will leave a mark.

51. Ridicule is easy. Creating is hard.

redbubble

2011-06-15T12:14:00.001-07:00

something to look into: http://www.redbubble.com/about

patterns

2011-06-15T12:12:00.000-07:00

lovely pattern blog: http://printpattern.blogspot.com/

herve tullet

2011-05-27T11:57:00.000-07:00

have you seen these books? brilliant! so much fun!

here's some images from inside the book with a hole:

swimming

2011-05-23T11:21:00.000-07:00

Isn't this so lovely?! It's from a 1960's guide to swimming safety that I found in a free box this weekend.

Hm...I think I just realized what's wrong with my life... I haven't been swimming in ages! I need to remedy this... will keep you posted.

on being lumpy and wandery and eating well

2011-05-23T10:38:00.000-07:00

Author Gary Shteyngart takes long ambling walks to eat good food and look at the city.

He says: "NO HURRY I take it very easy. There’s no need to rush — I get up around 11." and " These Sunday walks are actually much more helpful to my writing than almost anything else."

read the whole article here: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/22/nyregion/for-gary-shteyngart-hunting-food-and-ideas-on-sundays.html

maurice sendak in PA

2011-05-19T21:40:00.000-07:00

Did you know this museum in philadelphia has most of sendak's original art? including this mural. let's go to there.

http://www.rosenbach.org/learn/collections/maurice-sendak-collection

andre carrilho

2011-05-10T22:58:00.000-07:00

http://www.andrecarrilho.com/portfolio.php

do you like? i do.

lotsa lovely books to read

2011-05-06T17:35:00.000-07:00

For a nice list Go Here!

laura carlin

2011-04-18T14:55:00.000-07:00

Ohh, I like this gal. Have you heard of her? See more here. (and be sure to check out the other illustrators represented by Heart, there's some good stuff!)

play!

2011-04-03T09:55:00.000-07:00

Jonah Lehrer on the virtues of "unstructured play" here.

"A 2007 study published in Science, for instance, compared the cognitive development of 4- and 5-year-olds enrolled in a preschool that emphasized unstructured play – they were using Vygotsky’s “Tools of the Mind” approach – with those in a more typical preschool. After two years, the students in the play-based school scored better on cognitive flexibility, self-control, and working memory, all of which have been consistently linked to academic and real-world achievement. According to the researchers, the advantage of play is that it’s often deeply serious – the best way to get kids to focus, to exercise those attentional circuits, is to let them have fun."

ahhh! the cuteness!

2011-03-26T10:35:00.001-07:00

the best part is when she says, "One day I'm gonna whistle?"

Google art thinger

2011-02-07T11:15:00.000-08:00

have you seen new google thing? is awesome! go here.

Moomins!

2011-01-26T19:58:00.000-08:00

hee!

(I found it on this gal's flickr page.)

picture book marathon.

2011-01-24T17:19:00.000-08:00

I just signed up for a picture book marathon. It starts on Feb. 1 and lasts a month! I know you're too busy in school to try it but the website has some good writing tips and brainstorm ideas.
http://www.picturebookmarathon.org/Home.html

Gives joyful childhood

2011-01-23T16:36:00.000-08:00

I found this for sale in my wanderings around town yesterday. Yes, it does say, "Gives joyful childhood which children never obliterates." Pretty amazing, no?!

There's Going to Be a Baby!

2011-01-23T15:26:00.000-08:00

Have you seen this yet? It's really lovely. And written by John Burningham! And illustrated by Helen Oxenbury (who is also brilliant and married to John Burningham!) Be sure to read it next time you are at a book store.

Toshiyuki Fukuda

2011-01-23T15:15:00.000-08:00

lots and lots more here.

Kveta Pacovska

2011-01-19T13:31:00.000-08:00

She is in her eighties!!! can't find much about her online.

Polly Dunbar has the fanciest webpage ever!

2011-01-19T11:18:00.000-08:00

see it in action here.

berries!

2011-01-16T07:14:00.001-08:00

amazing new yorker anecdotes

2011-01-05T14:20:00.000-08:00

here

music toy

2010-12-14T12:24:00.001-08:00

really neat and fun!
http://mandaflewaway.tumblr.com/post/2057242738

kids make amazing drawings!!!

2010-12-12T03:03:00.001-08:00

http://whatthecool.com

at walgreens

2010-12-11T15:46:00.000-08:00

hee hee.

isabelle arsenault

2010-12-07T19:15:00.000-08:00

oh la la, lovely illustrations.
website here.

late night internet pep talks

2010-12-07T00:40:00.000-08:00

"So: SACK UP, is what we are saying. THERE'S NO CRYING IN PUBLISHING. Go out there with your fabulous selves, and own that shit. OWN IT. LOVE YOURSELF. Own how awesome you are, and how brave, every last one of you. Fuck a bunch of form letters. You're a fucking WRITER.

And don't forget: PROOFREAD."

found: here
(reminder to self for future rejection sad moments.)

(also, sorry i missed your call yesterday- and sorry you are sick! my phone did not tell me you called. talk tom?)

2010-12-02T22:22:00.000-08:00

hmmm... a place full of photos of amazing things?! i think i like it. have you heard of pinterest.com? (yes that's button garland and a cake!!!)

Allen Say

2010-11-30T12:21:00.000-08:00

allen say/Oregonian - is an interesting article about author/illustrator Alan Say. It's a bit long and the interesting parts are at the end, such as:

"Those adventures have continued for almost 50 years, and they're not over. Say said he "squandered 20 years" working as a commercial photographer in San Francisco and has been trying to "atone for my lapse ever since." He didn't publish his first book until he was 55 and swears that his 39th move, to Portland, won't be his last.

"I believe in periodic deracination to shock my system," he said. "... I prefer to go to a place where you don't know anyone and don't know the language, but I'm getting a little old for that. I've got to worry about medical insurance and all that sort of thing. So here I am.""

He's giving a reading at a local bookshop this weekend, I may go...

Play Pen - Martin Salisbury

2010-11-29T13:34:00.000-08:00

This is that book I was talking to you about yesterday. One of the gals in my crit group brought it in to share, has lots of great illustrators! You can add it to your list here.

keri smith (again!!!!)

2010-11-27T11:19:00.000-08:00

Did you read this yet? great stuff!

Secrets of the Self Employed (or How to be an Amazing [insert profession here])
1. Don’t worry about marks while you are in school. No one will ever ask you what school you went to or what your marks were when you leave it. (this pertains to the field of illustration).
2. You are always working for yourself, even when you work for others. Sometimes it feels like you are just the hired hand (and some clients can be really challenging to work with). But there is always some way to turn an illustration job into something exciting for you. Some ideas: experiment with a new technique (or a new color palette), use it as an opportunity to learn about a new topic, rebel against the job in tiny ways (do some roughs just for yourself in which you insert subversive material).
3. There are no actual rules for how to become a successful [insert profession here]. Make your own path.
4. It will help you to create a social network of other self-employed people.
5. Move your body every day. There are many health reasons for this, but it also helps you to work on ideas subconsciously. Ideas and solutions will come in when you least expect them but (almost always after a minimum of one hour of walking). There are new studies that suggest increased oxygen to the brain is a greater source for creativity than “creative brain exercises”. I have found this to be true for myself.
6. Goof off on a regular basis.
7. If you want to work on your art, work on your life. All those personality traits that aren’t working for you will come back to haunt you in your career (i.e. assertiveness, fear of conflict, fear of confrontation.) It’s all connected.
8. What you think becomes your reality. I always had a belief that if I cleaned out my recycling bin in my studio I would get new work. And guess what, it always happened. If you think the industry is screwed and there is no work to be had, guess what you will find out there?
9. Focus on ideas instead of tools (technology). Anyone can learn to use the tools, but it is the thinkers who really impact the culture in important ways. In the end the tools don’t offer anything interesting.
10. Worrying about the competition does very little to help your career. I know it’s hard sometimes to ignore what other people are doing (we all think that others are doing better than us), but every one of us is on a different life path. We are all here to accomplish different things and even though it would seem like one person’s path is similar to yours, it is not.
11. Only work for free if you are passionate about the cause or receive something of value in return. (Be wary of people who offer your name in lights in lieu of money. Many people will tell you something is good promotion for you, often it is not and there are no guarantees when it comes to promotional value). If you are not getting something of a measurable value (i.e. printed pieces, or money) ask for something else, creative freedom. If they refuse then they may not be a good client to work for anyway.
12. Take some small risks on a regular basis. Some ideas: write some places/companies you would really like to work and let them know why you think they are great.
13. Don’t worry about whether or not you are good (good is subjective and most people are not great judges of their own work), just keep making work.
14. Ignore cool. Successful people do not try to be hip, they just do work that excites them.
15. Always come back to work that excites you. Even if you get off track for a while. Do personal work on a regular basis, show it to others. You can reinvent yourself at any time.

from here.

Obama writes a picture book!

2010-11-25T14:41:00.000-08:00

Hm.. it looks kind of sweet. I may just like it. Will have to go read the full story first, but for a celebrity children's book, I think this one looks alright.

what i ate today

2010-11-21T17:37:00.001-08:00

my new blog
please participate!

kate bingaman-burt

2010-11-21T17:35:00.000-08:00

do you know this woman? [she lives in portland...]
she made this amazing book:

more coolness here

!!!

2010-11-19T19:36:00.000-08:00

♥

forest bed

2010-11-13T17:08:00.001-08:00

from here.

more best of.

2010-11-13T11:04:00.000-08:00

hmm. there's a couple i haven't seen that look pretty good, like one above. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/11/12/best-picture-books-2010_n_781894.html#s180462

2010-11-08T17:13:00.000-08:00

ha ha ha ha

2010-11-08T11:03:00.001-08:00

via here.

nina lindgren

2010-11-08T09:15:00.000-08:00

i know how you feel about sweden, thought you'd appreciate her: thttp://cargocollective.com/ninalindgren#149683/bio-contact

Books I read today

2010-11-07T18:08:00.000-08:00

The Story Blanket - lovely illos by Elena Odriozola - (whom I can't seem to find much about, except is Spanish and has illustrated a lot of books in Spain) which kind of reminded me of your work. Story is sweet but I'm not sure it would mean much to children.

And Keeper of Soles - with goofy, yet really good illustrations by Yayo. (Also not finding much on him online.) But the story is quite interesting - death comes to a cobbler's door to collect him and the cobbler tricks death into letting him live by making him shoes. You should read it, it's quite good.

nice words to live by

2010-11-07T15:46:00.000-08:00

From Caldecott & Co.

...McCay and I serve the same master, our child selves. We both draw not on the literal memory of childhood but on the emotional memory of its stress and urgency. And neither of us forgot our childhood dreams.

A quote from McCay:

"The principle factor in my success has been an absolute desire to draw constantly. I never decided to be an artist. Simply, I couldn't stop myself from drawing. I drew for my own pleasure. I never wanted to know whether or not someone liked my drawings. I have never kept one of my drawings. I drew on walls, the school blackboard, odd bits of paper, the walls of barns. Today I'm still as fond of drawings as when I was a kid - and that was a long time ago - but, surprising as it may seem, I never thought about the money I would receive for my drawings. I simply drew them."

best illustrated books 2010

2010-11-07T14:44:00.000-08:00

http://events.nytimes.com/gift-guide/holiday-2010/best-illustrated-childrens-books-2010/slide-show.html

portland this weekend.

2010-10-25T17:34:00.000-07:00

This is in the park just 2 blocks from my house, taken this morning. I love Fall.

Curtains I made this weekend for my bedroom, just need c to make a curtain rod.

A friend has an asian pear tree in her yard and gave me a ton of pears. I made this pie and c and I gobbled it up. I am quite fond of this newly discovered method of making just one big pie crust and flipping the edges over to the middle to make a top.

let's go to london

2010-10-20T21:41:00.000-07:00

to see this:

http://www.tate.org.uk/modern/exhibitions/unileverseries2010/room2.shtm

counting to 4!

2010-10-18T12:46:00.001-07:00

"chickens just back from the shore!" i love this.

look what grew!

2010-10-12T19:01:00.000-07:00

yes, that is inside!

matilda mcbean: Smories

2010-10-10T18:01:00.000-07:00

Did I send you this already?

Kids reading stories aloud for other kids to watch/listen to! Brilliant!

make your own fabric!

2010-09-18T16:01:00.000-07:00

ohh! totally want to order some!
http://www.spoonflower.com/welcome

new house

2010-09-12T12:41:00.000-07:00

potential curtains.

thank god for boyfriends!

hooray for cooking!

new house is shaping up nicely. picked up paint for the studio yesterday- the color is called perky! just right, I think!

ohmygoohmygodohmygod

2010-08-31T10:57:00.000-07:00

actual conversation with roberta

joanna neborsky

2010-08-30T09:19:00.000-07:00

like her style

2010-08-09T11:40:00.001-07:00

Just because!
I can't remember where it's from!

citronille

2010-08-09T11:40:00.000-07:00

ohh, i wish my french was better and i wish i was not the most impatient sewer ever. this site is lovely!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY SHEEP!!!

2010-08-08T11:39:00.000-07:00

c and i went out for cupcakes to celebrate your day!

they have these amazing dioramas i thought you'd like:

lots of love! k.

2010-08-07T13:37:00.000-07:00

I've been reading this.
And it's so so inspiring.
You should read it!

Oh, and this is our 100th post! Hoooray us!
Love you!

from keri smith again (but actually by corita kent)

2010-08-02T22:03:00.000-07:00

kid lit documentary

2010-07-25T21:42:00.000-07:00

hmm. Somehow I don't like seeing all these authors on video. It's a bit like seeing photos of your favorite NPR reporter. (See trailer here.)

signage

2010-07-25T11:43:00.001-07:00

c and i took a long walk last week. we discovered this amazing sign. isn't it great?!

banjo piggies

2010-07-15T21:13:00.001-07:00

we also should do this one.

http://banjopigs.blogspot.com/

we should do this

2010-07-13T14:31:00.000-07:00

"Am I eligible to enter?

The Exhibition is open to:
- illustrators, including professionals and newcomers, submitting unpublished works or works published in the last two years
- art colleges submitting projects produced by their students in the last two years of study
- publishers presenting their illustrators

How do I take part?

Send by 1 October 2010

application form;
5 original illustrations (fixed number), unpublished or published after 1 January 2009, in black and white or colour, produced using any technique, including computer graphics (in case of mixed technique, please send both original drawings and printouts of the ultimate artwork). Artwork previously submitted to the Exhibition may not be re-entered. The illustrations must be based on the same theme and must be numbered from 1 to 5 (labels enclosed) in the desired order. The number of illustrations (5) is mandatory. Submissions of any other number of works will be rejected."

A New Prize for Young Illustrators:

The aim of the award is to support the illustration work of young artists (under the age of 35), the special quality of whose work has yet to be acknowledged.

This annual award will be granted to one of the illustrators selected each year from the Bologna Children’s Book Fair Illustrators Exhibition.

The award, a 30,000$ cash prize, will be assigned by an international jury of experts, which will meet in Bologna during the Fair. The winner will be announced at the Fair. In addition, the winner will be offered the opportunity to illustrate a children’s book, which will be published by Grupo SM and presented the following year at the fair. A special exhibition will also be organized to highlight the work of the winning artist."

more here.

cute.

2010-07-13T14:19:00.000-07:00

from here. mostly italian, not sure what it's all about but liked this.

karen krings

2010-07-12T13:44:00.000-07:00

best "about me" i've ever seen. it works better on her site as is bigger and easier to read and the photo on the bottom comes as a big surprise.

hm... must get more creative with personal internet marketing. (from here.)

listening to.

2010-07-12T12:21:00.001-07:00

(ignore video and just listen. song by gordon lightfoot!)

oh my god oh my god oh my god

2010-07-11T21:28:00.000-07:00

I know, I know, I've been m.i.a. in the world of men's clothing. And I'm not oh so thrilled about it. And I miss you! And I miss drawing and doing things with my hands. I do not miss the HOURS I spend procrastinating on the interwebs - but procrastinating going to bed just now has led me to discover this amazing secret room!
From here.
[also, read about where her name comes from! LOVE IT!]

venn diagrams

2010-07-05T15:31:00.000-07:00

I just had lunch with Elly and was trying to remember this venn diagram that Keri Smith made that I really liked. So, I immediately did a little search for it when I got home and came across these two that are kind of great, but not by Keri Smith. (I think perhaps I just like the clarity of the venn diagram and also any use of the word hooray! and also boy paradox of course does not include r and c.)

and here's the one by keri smith:

meaning of life

2010-07-03T12:54:00.000-07:00

I've been reading a lot of books from the library and also my own that have been sitting around waiting for me.
Including Fernando Pessoa, who is a Portuguese poet that was mostly published posthumously. I am reading The Book of Disquiet.

This is from there:

27
Literature - which is art married to thought, and realization untainted by reality - seems to me the end towards which all human effort would have to strive, if we were truly human and not just a welling up of our animal self. To express something is to conserve its virtue and take away its terror. Fields are greener in their description than in their actual greenness. Flowers, if described with phrases that define them in the air of the imagination, will have colours with a durability not found in cellular life.
What moves lives. What is said endures. There is nothing in life that's less real for having been well described. Small-minded critics point out that such-and-such poem, with its protracted cadences, in the end says merely that it's a nice day. But to say it's a nice day is difficult, and the nice day itself passes on. It's up to us to conserve the nice day in a wordy, florid memory, sprinkling new flowers and new stars over the fields and skies of the empty, fleeting outer world.

End of quote.

I think it applies to all art work.

tao nyeu

2010-06-24T21:53:00.000-07:00

i know we've talked about her before. but i just love her work!
website.
the balloon journey might be my favorite.

inspiration

2010-06-24T15:03:00.001-07:00

I went to BN today to look at graphic design and typeface books for inspirations for my letterpress class and could not help, but look at illustration books as well.
One of the people I've found is Daniel Egneus - Swedish, of course! [What is with me and Sweden? It's a magical country for me it seems!]
More of his work here.
[Also note the website design - I like!]

re: below

2010-06-22T23:22:00.000-07:00

because i am super nerdy:
link

you can view my super dorky comment at the bottom of page.
x

craig thompson

2010-06-14T18:29:00.000-07:00

do you like him? we can go see him if you want.
from his blog:
"I’ll be doing an “artist demo” at the Portland Art Museum on June 19th, 2-4pm.
It’s all part of the museum’s summer-long exhibition of Robert Crumb’s Illustrated GENESIS. For those in town, I’ll be drawing live and projected while simultaneously giving a talk."

i love this little guy

2010-06-14T12:50:00.000-07:00

from here

and this i'd like to own!

2010-06-14T12:33:00.000-07:00

from here

i want to do this!

2010-06-14T12:24:00.000-07:00

sketchbook project

want to help me pick a theme?
i am debating between:

in flight
a record year for rainfall
dirigibles and submersibles

strawberry rhubarb pie

2010-06-13T19:14:00.000-07:00

worth watching until the end

2010-06-08T04:28:00.000-07:00

anna nemoy

2010-06-07T20:41:00.000-07:00

(ok, last post tonight. i will stop surfing internet soon. at least i hope so.) go here to see more lovely photos by this gal.

jumping

2010-06-07T20:23:00.000-07:00

when you are here we have to take some jumping photos, please!
it's a flickr group found here.

mouse mat

2010-06-07T20:00:00.000-07:00

oh my gosh! seriously?!
found here.

mini grey

2010-05-22T19:54:00.000-07:00

I read about her online and got some of her books out of the library. These images are from Egg Drop. I really like the drawing, painting and collage thing she manages to pull off.

gardening

2010-05-22T16:48:00.000-07:00

is grand. transplanted beets and weeded for awhile today, can't wait to show you my garden!

i feel like the potatoes and other root vegetables are kind of scandalous when shown like this. it's like having xray vision and looking at someone's underwear.
i found this image here: http://www.gardenrant.com/my_weblog/

who knew the post office was so cool???

2010-05-21T09:53:00.000-07:00

I was looking up the price of first class stamps [because I cannot keep up with how fast it changes] and found these stamps. Aren't they cool?

shit my kid ruined

2010-05-18T20:49:00.000-07:00

this site has some pretty funny photos: http://shitmykidsruined.tumblr.com/

2010-05-18T14:38:00.000-07:00

i want this

lost and found

2010-05-17T21:54:00.001-07:00

did you know about this?

http://www.studioaka.com/#/work-lostandfound

i want to see it!!!

2010-05-14T14:17:00.000-07:00

This is from Seven Impossible Things Before Breakfast.
Made me think of you!

drawing and cooking!

2010-05-12T22:11:00.000-07:00

oh gosh, soo funny, just look at that poor sheep! more here. we should both do one!

day 2 report

2010-05-03T12:22:00.001-07:00

shamefully, nothing done.
i did draw [as a distraction! which is so so ironic]

day 2, eehhhh

2010-05-02T18:26:00.000-07:00

came up with a goofy story which is basically ripping off don't let the pigeon drive the bus. oh well, maybe it can go somewhere. here's mo willems, he seems like a great guy: mo willems video

1st report

2010-05-02T07:54:00.001-07:00

I did not finish my first story yesterday.
I got as far as figuring out who the story was about [monkey] and what it was about [adventure,] but then specifics of plot completely eluded me. [I guess I really should have been researching during the month of April.]
Will try better today.

And off to the races! [Did you know the derby was yesterday? I had completely forgotten until I kept running into people in nice hats on the subway.]

7 books in 7 days

2010-05-01T08:27:00.000-07:00

starts today! But I realized that I am too harebrained to register on that website and follow all the rules, so I think I am just going to share my progress with you here.
Ready. Set. Go.

tiny internet addiction

2010-04-29T21:26:00.000-07:00

i've been having a problem with the internet. (perhaps it has replaced cigarettes in my life?) so funny enough i found some helpful advise while tooling around on ... the internet. from the great keri smith:

"I am attempting to spend less time on the internet these days, (notice 'surf the web' did not make it onto the list.) I find it to be eating up large chunks of my time, time that might be better spent on other things, things on the list for example. I realized that my daily blog list is as long as a good size dissertation. In some ways it has become just as consuming as television, which I cut out completely a year and a half ago. The main reason being I started to weigh the value of the experience, what was I getting from it? Did it fulfill me in some way or was I just watching mindlessly? The answer for the most part was yes and so I turned it off as an experiment. I also wanted to really notice how mass media made me feel. I discovered that I was responding emotionally to a lot of news stories and in the course of a day I could expend a lot of energy this way.
I like to try things as 'experiments', it doesn't sound nearly imposing as, "I'm quitting." The result is also that I don't feel deprived of the thing, but instead more like I always have a choice in the matter and right now I'm choosing to opt out to try something different. To see what will happen, how it will affect my life.
Truthfully I get a lot from other creatives on the web, I love reading about other artist's processes, getting inspired, making friends or finding an illustrator that kicks my ass. What I'm striving to cut down on is the mindless connecting, the moments when you look up and realize you have been reading about something you really care nothing about for the last hour.
I want to be conscious about what I'm taking in. I want to nourish my brain and psyche a bit more, give it some love."

mmm... yes helpful stuff. must remember this on saturday when i try to get to work and not get sucked in to interwebworld all day long. also planning to try out her idea of morning collage to warm up. see more here.

(and was surprised and saddened to hear the poor girl has cancer in her eye. boo. damn that cancer.)

studio mela

2010-04-28T20:50:00.000-07:00

I want these ones. Especially "it is going to be ok." I ask c to tell me that on a regular basis, so a poster may be helpful.
(they are also from here.)

yunmee kyong

2010-04-27T19:35:00.000-07:00

have you seen this? via IF blog
super inspiring, especially when she talks about her thoughts about taking up illustration late in life.