Archive For The “What We’re Reading” Category
Krissy Wilson is up to it again Click here for the FB event or just come: http://www.facebook.com/events/282375041857028/ Her latest project is finding odd google-transcriptions of audio on youtube. She’ll be at SAW May 11 talking about these, showing them and doing a live hunt of some of these digital foraging projects.
“Corman produces an exceptional portrayal, deserving of much laudatory praise and acclaim, of immigrant and Jewish life on par with the works of Will Eisner and Art Spiegelman.” —SFSite.com “Corman has an ear for dialogue and a loose, curvilinear brush-line that makes reading her work a pleasure.” —The Boston Phoenix “Captivating. . . [...]
We are celebrating Leela Corman and her new book, Unterzakhn this Friday from 7-10 pm at SAW. Come to SAW (18 SE 5th Ave at Main Street behind the CMC and Citizen’s Co-Op) from 7-10 for a chance to see this brand new book and see a small retrospective of Leela’s art on the walls. [...]
Please go here and read David Apatoff’s short but simpleblog entry about Ink and Commitment. http://illustrationart.blogspot.com/2009/10/ink-and-commitment.html “Ink is the medium for artists who are prepared to stand by their actions. Ink reserves her special favors– as well as her frustrations– for those artists who understand the significance of commitment. Ink is applied wet but leaves a [...]
we have sent emails to everyone and believe everyone has what they need to get settled. Click the link below for more info, or please contact Tom at SAW at thesaw@sequentialartistsworkshop.org if you still need more. http://sequentialartistsworkshop.org/wordpress/2011/12/for-attendees-of-the-john-porcellino-workshop/ Welcome!
Unterzakhn by Leela Corman A mesmerizing, heartbreaking graphic novel of immigrant life on New York’s Lower East Side at the turn of the twentieth century, as seen through the eyes of twin sisters whose lives take radically and tragically different paths. For six-year-old Esther and Fanya, the teeming streets of New York’s Lower East Side [...]
Check out Josh Bayer, and his great formal experimentation project, Suspect Device. Tom Hart is in this, I think Derek Ballard might be too. Leela Corman?
Holy cow, my favorite caricature artist bar none is caught live on tape. Note the process, folks. It’s not magic: he folds, copies, traces, mixes and matches until he gets it right. From the New Yorker.
Discovered a great book at the shared house for itinerant artists at the Hui No’Eau center: Edward Laning’s The Act of Drawing Here are some excerpts and some of my commentary below them. From The Act of Drawing, by Edward Laning p9. Artistic potential is develpoed and perfected only by practice, initially in close association [...]
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