Hilary Talbot’s passing interests and activities
Posted in art, craft, design, illustration, make, visual art on Aug 8th, 2005
I’ve been making a few artist trading cards: an edition of just three. One of them is in exchange for Mimi’s night baby.
Close-ups are here, here, and here.
I find the concept of artist trading cards quite seductive. It must be the idea of miniature art, like stamps and other mailart. But I am also wary [...]
Posted in books, illustration on May 4th, 2005
The following illustration is by Tibor Gergely from the Little Golden Book ‘Houses’ by Elsa Jane Werner. I’m posting it as a comparison to the one by Richard Scarry in another Little Golden Book, ‘Cars and Trucks’, over at Wee Wonderfuls. There is an interesting discussion there about how in updates of the book that [...]
Posted in books, craft, design, illustration, visual art on Apr 22nd, 2005
Meggiecat is a constant source of interesting art-craft-image-related notes. Her link to Japanese Free Clip Art the other day provided this lovely swallowtail butterfly image, for instance.
The designs reminded me of a book called ‘Snow, Wave, Pine:Traditional patterns in Japanese Design’ by Motoji Niwa and Sadao Hibi, which I sometimes page through in the bookshop. [...]
Posted in creatures, illustration, visual art on Apr 19th, 2005
This green parrot is one of the many lovely animal illustrations catalogued on The Medieval Bestiary: Animals in the Middle Ages. Its a nicely organized site, with alphabetical ordering and cross-referencing, and information about the beasts from manuscripts. For each beast there is usually a gallery of different images from different sources.
Did you know, for [...]
Posted in books, design, illustration, puppetry, puppets, theatre on Mar 13th, 2005
For me Jonathon Oxlade was the stand-out performance of the One Van puppetry festival in late January. His short performance during the Saturday night cabaret was exciting, bizarre, gross, and hilarious. Jonathon works as a freelance theatre designer, illustrator and puppeteer.
According to his bio, among many other things, he created The Red Tree installation — [...]
Posted in books, illustration on Feb 24th, 2005
I’ve blogged about Ernst Haeckel before, but yesterday I picked up such a cool little book: a mini version of Art Forms of Nature, published by Prestel. Its only 12cm x 9cm, and has 25 plates of his drawings. Of course at that scale you lose something, and I would still love to [...]