i've had little time or inspiration for drawing lately, so i figured i would force myself to start back up. This was done at coffee today. Just having fun with pens. Enjoy the rest of your week, gSketch Snafu
Wednesday, September 30, 2009
Sailor
i've had little time or inspiration for drawing lately, so i figured i would force myself to start back up. This was done at coffee today. Just having fun with pens. Enjoy the rest of your week, gSketch Snafu
fire 2
I did this illustration almost three years ago, but it fits this week's challenge.
"I fell in to a burning ring of fire..."
Fire, Juggling, and Monday Artday
This is Boom-Boom, sword-swallowing, juggling, and tightrope-walking over fire. I sometimes feel like her as I go about my life of home-maker, husband, dad, webmaster for California State University, and squeezing in art, blogging, and Monday Artday.I just got an email from a marketing company proposing advertising on this site. I looked them up - they promote online poker. Hoo-boy. I've made the decision not to advertise on this site. Maybe one day I'll offer some Monday Artday-specific products but I think I can keep the site looking more friendly and fun by not littering it with google ads and gambling sites. I'll find another way to make that 10 or 20 dollars a month. Really, the satisfaction of knowing that artists are coming here to inspire and be inspired is payment enough.
Rock on, artists!
Whooga Boots!
I Just thought I would share this drawing I did for Whooga Boots to help them advertise their boot give-away! Who doesn't love Crocodile Dundee?! Hope you like it :)
FIRE and the fella that started it!
What started that fire? A firebug!! What does a firebug look like? Why, a monster of course! With four eyes that he can scour around and find the best place to light his matches! Small and compact, this little fella is perfect for your cars glove box or to take in your backpack when camping. p.s....he doesn't like to drink water and LOVES red-hots and chili peppers.Doodlestreet.
Tuesday, September 29, 2009
The Reluctant Sailor
I wasn't too sure I liked this piece. I can see all the flaws in any piece of artwork I do. Over the years I have learned that nothing is perfect and "Good enough" is acceptable, so I just give them away or sell them as is, (if I'm so lucky to get an art order.)
Monday, September 28, 2009
Fire
Nataraja.
Created on a used coffee filter. The dance performed by Lord Shiva, personifies extreme energy symbolized in form of fire.
Nirja - http://ilikekalaa.blogspot.com/
Design for Cotton Bags
Hi Community!
I participated here in my region (Tyrol) in a Design-Contest for Cotton Bags organized by M-Preis, the local supermarket, and I am on the short-list.
If you guys could vote for me, I really would appreciate it! That contest means a lot to me.
Here is the link to M-Preis, and here my 2 submissions, you can vote once a day for several candidates until October, 11th:
Thank you!
I participated here in my region (Tyrol) in a Design-Contest for Cotton Bags organized by M-Preis, the local supermarket, and I am on the short-list.
If you guys could vote for me, I really would appreciate it! That contest means a lot to me.
Here is the link to M-Preis, and here my 2 submissions, you can vote once a day for several candidates until October, 11th:
Thank you!
New Challenge - Fire
The new challenge is:Fire!
Illustrate fire. Destructive, cooking, warming - let's see the fire.
The "Bicycle" challenge is over. The new challenge is "Fire" and ends on October 12, 2009. The "Sailor" challenge continues for another week and ends on October 5, 2009.
And The Winner Is... Deborah Mori!
The winner for the "Bicycle" challenge is:Deborah Mori!
Congratulations to Deborah Mori (Life Without Novacaine). I chose Deborah's "Monday Artday Bicycle" as the winner for the Bicycle challenge. A simple illustration with charming detail, a fun narrative, a great character - great design and color.
You all made this one very difficult. Some amazing bicycle artwork! I love the inspiration that Monday Artday gives me but Mondays are difficult when it comes down to choosing. I've written this before but I want to repeat it: The quality of art and the wonderful artists here at Monday Artday constantly amaze me. You are all terrific and inspiring and the reason why this blog is so popular. It's always the hardest thing I do all week to pick a winner. Keep 'em coming, artists!
a kid's vision of his future
"that's what i want to be when i grown up"
a submission for t-shirt design contest @ LaFraise
by Eric Wirjanata
Sunday, September 27, 2009
Scatterling© - available for purchase
Scatterlings© is a collection of self-directed enchantment art which combines actual foliage with watercolor and color pencil mediums. Hidden among the actual and rendered foliage are an enchanted assortment of Scatterlings; mythical animals and fairies. These one-of-a-kind folk art pieces take up to a year to complete as flowers and leaves are collected, pressed, preserved and finally hidden within a vision that evolves continually. (Mixed Media; Pressed Foliage, Watercolor, Colored Pencil, Pen and Ink on Handmade Paper.
With the advent of Giclee (zhee-clay) the art of fine art printing has become even more precise. Because no screens are used, the prints have a higher apparent resolution than lithographs. The dynamic color range is greater than serigraphy. In the Giclee process, a fine stream of ink -- more than four million droplets per second -- is sprayed onto archival art paper or canvas. The effect is similar to an air brush technique but much finer.
Choose from: Stretched/Mounted CANVAS Giclee 24"w x 18"h. Ready to hang. Shipping & Handling Included! or Giclee Enhanced Archival PRINT also available in 24"w x 18"h Suitable for framing. Shipping & Handling included!
Some originals are available.
See thumbs, info and price list here!
Jacquelyn L. Berl (also known under the artistic monicker “Ascender“, see more works on her website and blog) is a versatile and prolific artist with a strong drive towards finding an original signature style. She creates art with a seemingly unlimited assortment of media, fusing various schools and trends into a conglomerate body of work. I would categorize her style as gravitating towards the surreal, often with fabulous qualities; it characterizes in various degrees her mixed media works, collages, ink, watercolor and oil paintings. To my mind Berl achieves best results with the more combinative efforts, and while the more traditional artwork exhibits engaging pristine and figurative qualities, it is in the more complex and “dirty” pieces that her creative potential finds a unique outlet.
Viewing the “Scatterlings (c),” which, according to the artist, “combine actual foliage with watercolor and color pencil mediums” is a rich and magical experience — not surprising considering the “mythical animals and fairies” populating these pieces. In a way it replicates the ritual of reading a fairy tale to a child: each night the infant would ask for another reading of the same story and each time the story would sound different. It is possible to see each scatterling as a meta-illustration of a fairy-tale, existing or not. Perhaps even more radically, each piece is indeed a fairy tale, only of a visual kind. This would make sense considering the arduous process, taking up to a year, of making (”writing”) them.
Technically they may be seen as Pollock’s logical continuation: he painted while putting the canvas on the floor, letting gravity participate in the process, and Jaqueline similarly alludes to gravity, which forces the leaves and the plants she uses down to earth. Thus she may be proposing an idealized artistic view of the physical world around us, everyday objects being the media and the ground they rest upon the surface. But even without this allegory, her artwork bears a purely visual resemblance to abstract expressionism, all the while retaining the concrete form of the inserted magical characters (visit her blog for close ups) — the result is a fascinating surreal mishmash.
Clever use of perspective, compositional rhythm and color toning, combined with actual flora creates a bewitching effect of three-dimensionality. I cannot decide whether the artist panders to the younger audience by incorporating real objects, seeking to emulate depth with actual depth on the paper, but it certainly appeals to the child in me, evoking an inner smile. I also think that it is this kind of works of art that more than usual encourages children to want to become artists — it could be the appeal of using objects found in nature, something every playful kid does as a matter of fact anyway.
Elijah at Art & Critique
Bike stunt
Wanted to post something new on this topic, but I guess this will have to do. Something I did a while back.
Saturday, September 26, 2009
Friday, September 25, 2009
Bagalagalaga's Bike
Thursday, September 24, 2009
Bicycle! Bicycle!
Thanks to this challenge I have the song going over and over in my head, "I want to ride my bicycle..."
An
yhow, here's my version, both as a simple and fancy silhouette.
Popeye the Sailor
Tubbn'
After seeing a lot of the submissions for sailor my brain could not help but see the classic cartoon gag of dude wearing a sailor suit, in a bathtub.. that has a sail. So I kinda did something like that. Well I did EXACTLY that, whatever. I had lots of time today so this was done. A lot of my entries for this month, or more, will be "paint replicas", due to not having the scanner working. I like how these are turning out so its cool with me.
Blog: Still Updated Daily
Wednesday, September 23, 2009
Blue Rose Diary; The Day I Kiseed Pavement
"In the end, Sasha walked away with only a broken spirit."
C.Shikler '09
black pen, colored pencils, Photoshop©
black pen, colored pencils, Photoshop©
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Tuesday, September 22, 2009
Uni Only or No Bicy's Allowed
"One way," Says those with a single tire. "Both ways," Shouts those with two wheels in response. "You're wrong," Each side shouts in symphony yet ignores its counterpart. "We're right," They all continue as arms start to rise.
Another war ensues and after many years of strife the world is finally one. Each side mingles with its other but those that lost the war are now a minority. Segregation seems something all humanoids capable of. Clearly the Unicy's are superior! That is why they won the war, right?
Sailor Moon
from: blugallery.blogspot.com
I realise that my Sailor Moon is not the best work of art, but this watercolour is my reflection and first connotation with this week Monday Artday topic.
A sailor? One day
artofanomad.blogspot.com
Monday, September 21, 2009
Where are we?
These folks trusted the Captain ( who had earlier purchased a fancy sailor hat at the dock) to guide them across the bay for the annual PETA festival...here they are, three hours later and the festival is nowhere in sight...nor is land.
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