-
A Sock Is A Pocket For Your Toes by Liz Garton Scanlon and Robin Preiss Glasser Analysis
A Sock Is A Pocket For Your Toes (2004) is a picture book by Liz Garton Scanlon and Robin Preiss Glasser, published by HarperCollins. A cave is a pocket for a bear,a breath is a pocket full of air.A hat is a pocket for your hair,and a seat is a pocket called a chair… A Sock […]
-
Fruit, Flower and Vegetable Picking in Art and Illustration
Here’s a collection of people picking fruit. Most of the people picking fruit are women, a metaphorically gendered activity (if not an actual one?) Images of women picking fruit appeals to our fantasies of abundance and self-sufficiency. Many of these works are brightly coloured and cosy.
-
Illustrations of Art Studios
Sometimes artists don’t need to travel far to find inspiration for their work.
-
Warm, Bright, Sunny Colours in Art and Illustration
A collection of illustrations which convey that warm, sunny feeling… mostly. The same palette can work to the opposite effect.
-
Weddings In Art and Illustration
Dreaming about weddings, preparing for weddings, getting married, eating the wedding dinner…
-
Cakes In Art And Literature
A selection of illustrated cakes, and also books featuring cakes.
-
Checkered Floors and Backgrounds In Art And Illustration
Header painting: Interior of Monaco Anita Catarina Malfatti (1889 -1964) São Paulo, Brazil
-
Signage In Art And Storytelling
Signage featuring prominently in art
-
Bees and Wasps in Art and Illustration
A collection of bees and wasps in art and illustration
-
Messing About In Boats
Ursula Le Guin once had a conversation with Halderman, which is ostensibly about boats but is actually about writing. ALISON HALDERMAN: You do invent wonderful landscapes. The Earthsea trilogy creates such a vivid picture of the sea — have you done a lot of sailing? URSULA LE GUIN: All that sailing is complete fakery. It’s […]
-
Illustrations With Castles In The Distance
Castles in the background of illustrations
-
Writing Activity: Describe A Street At Night
A MIDLAND TWILIGHT The cloud-plumed afternoon has flown along the household street, Leaf-shadows flicker. Freshly strown, the sprays whir. Far and fleet, Hushed, furtive footsteps dodge and creep, and hunting voices call, “I spy,” and “One, two, three for you,” around the street’s still hall. The little winds of twilight blow. Upon the hop-scotch chaclk, […]
-
Body Language by Diane Schoemperlen Short Story Analysis
Body Language is a short story by Canadian writer Diane Schoemperlen. You can find it collected in The Best American Short Stories 1998. The story comes ‘illustrated’ with anatomical drawings: of the head and larynx, the eyeball and nose cavity, the ribcage, musculature of the arm, a sperm, a brain. This story is an example […]
-
Card Games In Illustration
Before TV and the internet people had card games.
-
Yellow Backgrounds In Illustration
A collection of illustrations with yellow as background.