party on!

kris chau is running a '15dollaholla!' sale where up until september 7th, you can request any drawing that you want (black&white/8.5x11) for 15 bucks! this wayne's world homage is what she did for me! i'm so excited to hang it in my new house!

the illustrated man.

i'm currently trying to learn illustrator. it's...confusing and fun.

{the original woody}

oh, margot.

last night i was googlin' around and i found this beautiful drawing of margot tenenbaum. i love the line work, it really captures the spirit of the character.

{via brett is a girl}

mermaids, whales, hot air ballons & ships.

my sister was watching antiques roadshow and saw a painting by ralph cahoon and thought that i would like his work. boy was she right.

string figure.

i love harry smith's experimental films and his extensive collection of american folk music, basically he was an all around genius. which is also evident in these string forms that somehow i had never seen before!

{found via royal quiet deluxe}

orphisme.

current inspiration: sonia delaunay.

{via the textile blog}

mexicat.

vintage folk art cat sculpture with beautiful hand-painting, from modern50.

one on one.

i've always loved david hockney's etchings. artist and model, half-ground etching, soft-ground etching, & sugar-lift aquatint; 1973-74.

cats, a portfolio.

sunny-land pandora and saroyan by clare turlay newberry, foremost illustrator of cats and kittens. i wanna tug that fluff tail and squish those neck rolls!

pica pica.

one for sorrow
two for joy
three for a girl and
four for a boy
five for silver
six for gold
seven is a secret never to be told
eight is a wish and
nine is a kiss
ten is a bird you must not miss.

seeing a single magpie is bad luck. to ward off misfortune say this rhyme or greet him with "hello mr. magpie, how is your wife?".

{two magpie drawings from the feather book}

falling & laughing.

in the new vice there is an interview with edwyn collins, the singer from scottish twee pop band orange juice. in 2005 edwyn suffered two major brain hemorrhages that left him unable to walk, talk, or use his right hand. his brain also lost the ability to work out letters and words. over the next three years he began drawing animals, mostly birds, with his left hand as a way of teaching his body and mind how to work again. he recently had a show of these bird drawings at smithfield gallery in london.

{click drawing to download falling and laughing}

how wheeling feels.

amazing print and texture from copy of an imitation. oh, and maybe you though that this was a cool pleated bag? well, you were wrong. awesome.

{found at kingdom of style}

james castle.

i went and saw the james castle retrospective at the pma and it was really really wonderful. i couldn't find my most favorite piece online, but he drew people with little rectangle landscapes for heads and it blew my mind. the found cardboard assembleages were also so perfect. really really wonderful.

here they come now, see them run now.

oooh, i want all of these outfits {and hair-do's} in krisatomic's new daily drawing!

i may not know what i like, but i know art.

i saw this drawing by jim krewson in the new vice magazine and it totally cracks me up. i love it. sometimes art is really stupid.

{fyi: most of his website is nsfw}

all systems are GO.

hand drawn balloons by ryan mcginley for jack wall.

memorable foam.

"you are hereby invited to contribute to what we hope will be an ongoing project exploring memory and drawing."

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the neat people over at memory foam have started up a project that's perfect for people like me and james. they want to see just how good your memory is for those halcyon days of drawing cartoon characters over and over until you get it right. they are starting it off with garfield and the smurfs. the catch is that you can't look at any sort of smurf or garfield reference or likeness of any kind between reading this rule and drawing your contribution!! honor system people! once you send in your memory it will be published on the web site and in the debut issue. pretty cool. entries are due setpember 30th 2008. check out all the info here.