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Friday, April 04, 2008

Look what came in the mail today!

It’s my first ever Etsy purchase!

Tuesday, April 01, 2008

More snow leopard love!

Congratulations to fellow Snow Leopard enthusiast Jackie Morris! Her book The Snow Leopard has been shortlisted for the Highland Schools Book Awards!

Tuesday, March 25, 2008

A Grisly Desktop

This is my new desktop graphic. What do you think? It’s a little gruesome, I’ll grant you, but I love it!

It’s for Neil Gaiman’s new novel, The Graveyard Book, due out this October.

This is how the author describes it:

Lots of scary. Some funny (some of the funniest stuff is also the scariest, though). A fair amount of action. Some drama. No kissing. Late nights. Fish and chips. A werewolf, a vampire, an Assyrian mummy and a small pig. A knife in the dark.

And here’s where Neil blogs about Dave McKean’s great bookslip design

Thursday, January 03, 2008

Amy Casey: Houses on the verge of peril

“All of you undisturbed cities, haven’t you ever longed for the enemy?” Rilke

It occurs to me that it’s quite some time since I’ve done an Art Elsewhere Post so here’s my first one for 2008.

I discovered Amy Casey last year, via Scott Radke’s blog and was instantly captivated. Her work is both charming and unsettling, full of precarious little huddles of houses, perched on the edge on peril.

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Monday, November 12, 2007

Art Elsewhere: George Seurat

It’s been a busy week and I’ve only had time for flying visits to the interweb at best but when I saw this on Drawn! today I just had to share.

It’s an audio visual slideshow on the drawings of George Seurat to accompany this article by Roberta Smith about the exhibition of his drawings running at the Museum of Modern Art.

Saturday, October 06, 2007

Toeknuckles again

A little while ago I posted an entry about one of my favourite fantasy artists, Amy Edwards. Well, she has just updated her website with a walkthrough of how she created one of the paintings.

Check it out!

Thursday, September 27, 2007

Fan girl moment!!!!

Today I stopped by my deviantART gallery and what do I find but a comment from Patricia Ann Lewis-MacDougall! Now that did bring a smile to my face! She was thanking me for adding her to my watch list.* Squueee! In my little world this is like having one of your favourite /actors/singers/insert as appropriate/ give you the time of day. 

More art!

Tuesday, September 25, 2007

Behind the scenes with Jackie Morris

It’s been a while so here’s an art post! It’s Jackie Morris again who updated her Starlight, Starbright blog a few days ago.

Click for Snow Leopards!

Tuesday, August 28, 2007

Toeknuckles

This is a painting by an Australian artist called Amy Edwards. It’s an older work of hers and remains a particular favourite of mine. It’s the sort of object I can imagine a witch keeping in her larder. Poor little bunny! It’s called Lagermorph and as Amy says herself “I think wordplays and puns are WAY underrated”!

Very recently, she posted another critter in a jar painting over on her LJ.

Monday, August 13, 2007

Ombria in Shadow

There are many, many other things that I should be doing today but I can’t be bothered :)

So I’m going to curl up in bed with Ombria in Shadow and escape into one of Patricia McKillip’s no doubt beautifully crafted faerytale worlds.

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