The Lighthouse Keeper’s cat

I love this one…

Last Saturday at craft 2.0 I had a chat to Lucy from felt.co.nz and told her about my current disappointment with myself, my artwork and my progress for my next show (with only 5 weeks to go). She told me about a TED talk and today sent me the link. 

Elizabeth Gilbert’s talk is inspiring, comforting and strangely uplifting… A must see ^_^…

This makes me activate my sheer stubbornness and resilience, and if those will be the most mediocre illustrations ever, f*** so be it, at least I showed up ^_^…

Good night, sleep well!

Ericailcane is one of thoses artist which just takes away my breath*. Located in Bologna Ericailcane produces etchings, street art, animations, installations, drawings and obviously what ever else there is to do.

The style of the art work reminds me of Victorian children’s illustrations with a wimsical twist, like seeing something totally familiar combined with something unknown, uncanny and very, very strange. The capture of space in the installations is amazing, like the creatures whirling around you, invading you mental space…

Ericailcane’ website and on facebook.

Show at squadro stamperia galleria, Bologna

*) and makes me want to go into a dark corner never to come out again and never ever again pick up a pencil ^_^…

Really sorry that I missed this!

The project called ‘Terrible Yellow Eyes’ is a collection of Illustrations and Artwork inspired by ‘Where the Wild Things Are‘ the famous picture book by Maurise Sendak. Cory Godbey a Artist and Illustrator based in South Carolina, USA, was able to gather some really astonishing  pieces from some of my favorite Artist.

Have a look at the project on the ‘Terrible Yellow Eyes’ website.

These are my favorites:

With a private boat, by Alberto Cerriteño (one of my favorite artist!).

Hanging around, by Alberto Cerriteño.

Wish You Were Here, by Nate Wragg

King Thing!, by Brittney Lee

Find of the day: The famous Brazilian streetart twins in action. Love to see their drawing techniques. I first saw their work in a book on Streetart in Brazil ‘Graffiti Brasil’ by Lost Art, Caleb Neelon, and Tristan Manco (also available in the Wellington City Library ^_^…).

If you would like to see more images visit the Os Gemeos group on Flickr.

‘you do not have to maintain a strict mathematical accuracy here, a creative chaos needs to be maintained’

Yuri Norstein about his animation

Part of the Yuri Norstein Documentary is available on youtube.

Hedgehog in the Fog (Russian: Ёжик в тумане, Yozhik v tumane) is a 1975 Soviet animated film directed by Yuriy Norshteyn, produced by the Soyuzmultfilm studio in Moscow.

The little Hedgehog get side tracked in the fog on his way to meet the bear.
I can’t believe that I only discovered it today. Reminds me a bit of Zdeněk Miler’s ‘Little Mole’ from my childhood.