28 May 2014

A Cool Sage About To Loose His Head

A Cool Sage About To Loose His Head

My imaginary friend, “So, Brian what’d you do today?” My imaginary answer, “Oh, nothin’ much, drew a sage about to get his head cut off.” These are the things that I am thinking about when I am thinking about these things.



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25 May 2014

Eye Candy for Today: Degas’ portrait of Manet

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Edouard Manet, Seated, Holding His Hat, Edgar Degas In the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Click on the image on the Met’s page for a zoomable version or use the download arrow. I remember being struck by seeing this drawing in one of the volumes of the old Time Life Library of Art (The World of […]

24 May 2014

Freaky Farm Fun

This painting was started for an illustrator intensive. I can’t wait to get back to it. it is just starting to come together.



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23 May 2014

A Wry Little Sage

This little interaction between these two characters makes me happy.



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Joe Isom Illustrates The Rubayyat of Omar Khayyam

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I found a remarkable little book at a local thrift shop last week. Published by Hallmark Cards Inc. in 1967, it's beautifully illustrated throughout by an artist named Joe Isom.



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"Chester Joe Isom Jr. grew up in Kansas City and started his freelance career at Hallmark among other great artists/friends of the time. He worked as a freelance illustrator for over 35 years. In November of 2000, our dad passed away unexpectedly at the young age of 58." ~ Matthew Isom (Joe Isom's son)



Thanks to Dave Groff for locating the brief biographical information above, originally posted in a comment on this blog.

09 May 2014

Giant with back problems

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Dutch Angle

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AE Letterpress workshop with Brian Bowes on Vimeo

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Homer's Watercolor Evening

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Parka Blogs’ art tools and gears

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I’ve written before about a blog called The Tools Artists Use, which is based on the excellent concept of asking various illustrators and other artists about their primary working tools. The Tools Artists Use blog is taking a break, but the most recent post points out that Teoh Yi Chie of Parka Blogs (which I […]

04 May 2014

Eye Candy for Today: Moran’s Green River Cliffs

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Green River Cliffs, Wyoming, Thomas Moran On Wikimedia Commons. Original is in the National Gallery of Art, DC. The most striking of Moran’s dramatic paintings of the American West —which is saying something. For more, see my post on Thomas Moran.

03 May 2014

Painting "Gulliver in Brobdingnag"

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