30 Days - Day #15: Aaaaaaawwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww
Sometimes, I love people so much it hurts. Not just, you know, the people I need, but also complete strangers. Yeah, I know, that doesn't fit with most of what I'm about but sometimes I'm an enigma. Deal with it.
Here is someone that I don't know but nonetheless love: Angela Hendricks.
Angela created these whimsical illustrations with her 4 year old daughter. She starts with a head drawing and then her daughter adds something. Finally, Angela adds colour or finishing touches (a more detailed description with photos is on THIS IS COLOSSAL). I found her initial frustration with expectations about her daughter's contributions - and then just going with it - to be delightful and a very valuable meditation on the walls that we erect for ourselves in the creative process that kids just don't have.
This article makes me lament that I will never make art with my own child. I guess that I'll just have to borrow my friend's kids ;)
Angela + daughter's prints are available through society6, and more of her work can be seen at her site.
Another person I love (and yes, for more than just the obvious reasons) is Matthew Gray Gubler. If you put his acting aside (as I choose to for this posting), the man is a truly weird individual and an interesting artist. I haven't been to his website in a while, but once in a while I go just to see if he's posted any new art. His style reminds me of Shel Silverstein and Ralph Steadman, and is amazingly loose and low tech for a guy who understands and uses the web so well. It has a kind of simplicity and joy to it that I envy as an artist. Plus, the dude does watercolours and I just... can't.
Yep, I love this guy - he's got style, he's a little inscrutable, and he's never boring. That's quite something.
made_of_tin is a pair of artists (very different from the previous two) that I love. It's mostly because of their use of colour and POVs - it's the sort of sensibility that you get from cutting your teeth on comic book art and growing up using digital tools to create your worlds. The style is much closer to the kind of work that I'd like to produce, and although Made of Tin's society6 page contains mostly fanart at the moment, there are moments of both stillness and saturation that elevate some images above typical fan creations.
Love you, MOT/KS - I'm just sorry that you left lj in favor of Tumblr because I won't follow you there. *you can't take the grumpy outta Blythe*
Here is someone that I don't know but nonetheless love: Angela Hendricks.
Angela created these whimsical illustrations with her 4 year old daughter. She starts with a head drawing and then her daughter adds something. Finally, Angela adds colour or finishing touches (a more detailed description with photos is on THIS IS COLOSSAL). I found her initial frustration with expectations about her daughter's contributions - and then just going with it - to be delightful and a very valuable meditation on the walls that we erect for ourselves in the creative process that kids just don't have.
This article makes me lament that I will never make art with my own child. I guess that I'll just have to borrow my friend's kids ;)
Angela + daughter's prints are available through society6, and more of her work can be seen at her site.
Another person I love (and yes, for more than just the obvious reasons) is Matthew Gray Gubler. If you put his acting aside (as I choose to for this posting), the man is a truly weird individual and an interesting artist. I haven't been to his website in a while, but once in a while I go just to see if he's posted any new art. His style reminds me of Shel Silverstein and Ralph Steadman, and is amazingly loose and low tech for a guy who understands and uses the web so well. It has a kind of simplicity and joy to it that I envy as an artist. Plus, the dude does watercolours and I just... can't.
Yep, I love this guy - he's got style, he's a little inscrutable, and he's never boring. That's quite something.
made_of_tin is a pair of artists (very different from the previous two) that I love. It's mostly because of their use of colour and POVs - it's the sort of sensibility that you get from cutting your teeth on comic book art and growing up using digital tools to create your worlds. The style is much closer to the kind of work that I'd like to produce, and although Made of Tin's society6 page contains mostly fanart at the moment, there are moments of both stillness and saturation that elevate some images above typical fan creations.
Love you, MOT/KS - I'm just sorry that you left lj in favor of Tumblr because I won't follow you there. *you can't take the grumpy outta Blythe*