weekend, come sooner…
Posted April 21, 2010 at 2:00pm
POPPY FLORAL GRAFFITI MEDIUM SKINNY.
there is something so lovely about coloring outside the lines and placing it on the most perfectly sized wally.
keep on keeping on.
This is how… you wear your toes. A la Comme des Garcons.
Posted April 9, 2010 at 11:50am
ARTIST PROFILE
Name: Jeremy Tankard
Job: Award-Winning Authorstrator for Children (and adults like Taina who still fancy the simplicity of few words and bright colors)
Residence on this great, vast Interweb: http://www.jeremytankard.com/
Describe your style: Maisy meets punk/Sumi-e meets graffiti
Your tools: Pentel brush pen and hardcover sketchbook for all the drawings. Corel Painter for coloring my characters and building background textures. Adobe Photoshop for layering everything together in a big digital collage, color corrections and background coloring.
What “drew” you to the realm of authorstratoring: I’ve been making books and telling stories since I was a small child. I wasn’t a big reader as a child but enjoyed making my own books. For most of my childhood making books would have been my second favorite career. TRACTOR DRIVER was my first. I’m glad things have worked out the way they did. It took my editor at Scholastic to turn me from a path of just drawing pictures to the path of writing my own stories to illustrate.
What was your favorite book growing up: Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel by Virginia Lee Burton. I loved that book. Probably because it featured a big steam shovel. Really, what’s not to love about steam shovels? When I was a bit older and reading on my own I fell in love with Asterix and Tintin comics. Although a reluctant reader I DID enjoy reading comics.
What is your favorite book you have written: That’s like choosing a favorite offspring! I don’t have one. Grumpy Bird will always be special because it was the first one (even though I think the drawings are pretty crude compared with how I’m drawing now). ME HUNGRY! is special because it was the most difficult and the one I learned the most on. Boo Hoo Bird is special because I took everything I’d learned on the first two and poured it all into this one.
What is your favorite book someone else has written? I have a long list of favorites. Here are a few:
-The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane by Kate DiCamillo
-Click Clack Moo, Cows that Type by Doreen Cronin
-Bone by Jeff Smith
-The Underland Chronicles by Suzanne Collins
-The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
-Anything illustrated by Chris Raschka
-Asterix by Goscinny and Uderzo
-Tintin by Herge
-I Am A Bunny illustrated by Richard Scarry
What is your favorite illustration that you created: I like most of the drawings in ME HUNGRY! quite a lot. The cover of Boo Hoo Bird makes me very happy, as does the cover of Grumpy Bird. There’s a drawing on my blog of a panda watering a big tree that I think is one of the best things I’ve every drawn. (see below)
What is your favorite illustration someone else created: A friend of mine gave me a copy of a book of collected sketches by Chihiro Iwasaki that has some stunning drawings in it. I’m not sure whether they qualify as illustrations though because they are just sketches. Andre Franquin’s stories for Spirou are also amazing (he’s one of my heroes). Jack Kirby is one of my favorites as well, no single illustration but his whole body of work is incredible and inspiring.
I just started with Twitter. Writing something meaningful in 140 characters is an art form. Can you write a brief 140 character story right now?? If Jeremy couldn’t own a tractor he would draw one. As he drew he realized that drawing was probably more fun than actually owning one. He saved a lot on insurance. (it’s actually 164 characters if you include the spaces, 134 without spaces).
Posted April 6, 2010 at 1:47pm
yes, please.
Posted March 24, 2010 at 1:33pm
Road trip to Amherst, MA anyone? Let’s visit the Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art.
Posted March 17, 2010 at 10:48am
I’m guessing they look better in person because they kind of look like punk leprechaun shoes.”
-SG
-SG
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Yes, they do Stefani. From Sam Edelman’s SS/2010 collection. Beauties!
Posted March 16, 2010 at 1:59pm
ARTIST PROFILE
Name: Stephanie Luong
Age: 20
Flickr: www.flickr.com/stephanieluong
Job: Art enjoyer, image maker/visual creator (originally a painter/drawer), big dreamer, oh and also a full-timing student. other: I shoot bands and sometimes shoot for Singing Lamb.
Tools: Canon 50D (mostly with 50mm 1.8 lens), Canonet QL17 and Photoshop
Describe your style: Fashion: Details, the fit, layers, tones, bargains, comfort and wrinkles and creases in the right places.
In regard to the aesthetics with my Art/Photography/Images: To be visually appealing and mentally simulating. Geometric but still organic. Colour tones and interesting compositions are important to me. My images can be somewhat experimental and sometimes lo-fi. I enjoy capturing moments and getting spontaneous candid shots and then tempering with them in Photoshop. People also fascinate me very much. I think is why I shoot a lot of concert photography..
Why are pictures important?: Personally, pictures/visuals are important to me because I can understand and control them better than words. I like that photographs can document people, places, events, moments, time or a space that I’m afraid I may forget without having physical evidence to remind me of.
What is your favorite photo you took yourself?: Fav photos of mine.. Gah, I had such a hard time with this. you’re crazy to have me narrow it down to one..
What is your favorite photo someone else took?: Off the top of my head.. almost anything by local talent, Justin Broadbent.
Posted March 14, 2010 at 5:39pm
