The bird of paradise lands only on the hand that does not grasp.
—Zen proverb
—Pablo Neruda (1904-1973)
21 March 2013
20 March 2013
19 March 2013
Said to be a carpenter by trade…
Cartoon by Art Young (1866-1943)
18 March 2013
16 March 2013
15 March 2013
Really?
Yikes.
A perusal of miscellaneous retro comics paints guys as real jerks… it’s enough to make a man want to apologize on behalf of my whole damn gender!
14 March 2013
13 March 2013
Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant.
—Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894)
11 March 2013
Read my lips…
Vancouver, Canada
My friend Jennifer Romita has been working on lips lately… really large lips. Jennifer is an Italian-Canadian visual artist living and on the West coast. Her work ranges from large scale paintings to digitally-created contemporary imagery, often with a focus on aspects of longing, the concept of “self,” and the human condition.
You can see more of Jennifer’s work on her website here. I posted some earlier work by Jennifer back in 2011, here.
And, by the way, she takes commissions…
10 March 2013
Taming of the Shrew
New York
This is Luba Lukova‘s latest poster design for The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare at La MaMa e.t.c. (final poster at top, poster sketch below and a detail of conceptual sketches). Internationally recognized, Luba is regarded as one of the most distinctive image-makers working today — her original art uses metaphors, the juxtaposition of symbols, and an economy of linear illustration and text to beautifully capture the essence of basic humanity.