Posts Tagged ‘art’

Geninne's Art Blog: handcarvedstamptutorial [via Pikaland –

Bus.Tops – Alfie's got a new collaborative art project on the boil. Looks good, too.

Last Monday I finally got around to going to the Kuniyoshi exhibition that I mentioned here. I'd planned to go on Monday anyway, but then Sarah posted on Twitter that she was planning to go as well, so we arranged to meet up. She'd already been inside the exhibition at least 40 minutes by the [...]

I didn't make it to the Crystal Palace Children's Book Festival as I'd planned. I did make it to Crystal Palace but after transport hassles I was too grumpy to be sociable so I went to say hi to the dinosaurs, and sit in the sun. Then it got too late to do the festival [...]

As promised in my last post, I dug out my copy of House By Mouse, written by George Mendoza and illustrated by Doris Smith. Reading through it again, I was tickled to see which houses I coveted when I was little — as indicate by a pencil caption "my house" on each one I liked. [...]

I went to see the Byzantium exhibition at the Royal Academy a couple of weeks ago. It was full of quite lovely things, but to be honest I wouldn't worry that the show's finished now, as it wasn't displayed very well. You'll have a much more pleasant time seeing similar stuff on display in the [...]

troubled diva @ tumblr: “Worst club entrance ever?” – Very Nikie De Saint Phalle, though.

In the few years since I first met her, Jill has taken great strides with her own creative life, garnering a significant collection of work, and becoming heavily involved in the running of a local gallery, Vox, in her home town of Sacramento. I'm delighted she agreed to be interviewed because, I find her attitude very inspiring, and I hope you do, too.

The Forbidden Planet International Blog Log » From Our Continental Correspondent – Stento draws portraits – I am totally in love with this <i>gorgeous</i> portrait of Corto Maltese. Which bids the question: isn't it waaaaay past time for someone to bring the books back into print in the English language? Preferably with better translations than [...]

Army of Morphs remember Tony Hart – Awwwww! Sad I missed this. But there's a great set of photos here: http://flickr.com/photos/krypto/sets/72157614679648708 Maybe it can become an annual event. That would be neat!