Category: Art

Midjourney is a tool which artists can incorporate into their existing process using existing skills of their own.

How long does it take to illustrate a picture book? Well, that depends on many things, including the illustrator’s style. Another important factor: The nature and number of any crowd scenes. An illustration of a crowd scene, with individuated characters, can take as long as the rest of the entire book.

Some children’s illustrators use paper collage to illustrate their books by painting and and decorating their own assortment of cut paper. Think The Very Hungry Caterpillar. Eric Carle’s artwork is often shown in classrooms as a model for children creating paper collages. Today I’d like to introduce you to a few artists who create similar artwork.…

Paintings and illustrations of beaches from above and from a distance.

Paths through woodland and gardens, mostly with a hygge vibe, though this can be subverted.

Bookshop storefronts and interiors, as depicted by various artists and illustrators.

Here are some paintings of street corners, as well as some experimentation with AI art generation.

WHAT IS AN ALLEYWAY? A narrow space between or behind buildings, often used as a passageway. Oftentimes the owner of the strip of land is unclear. They tend to be left off official maps. Alleyways (alleys) are liminal, in-between spaces. Alleyways are both ‘territory’ and ‘network’. Territory: A space where various facets of social life…

Motorbikes and motorcycles through the ages

Although Bertha Young was thirty she still had moments like this when she wanted to run instead of walk, to take dancing steps on and off the pavement, to bowl a hoop, to throw something up in the air and catch it again, or to stand still and laugh at – nothing – at nothing,…