Category: Art and Design

National Center for Children’s Illustrated Literature


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Very few design and art museums recognise the artistic achievements of illustrators of children’s literature. The National Center for Children’s Illustrated Literature aims to counter that. A permanent collection is maintained. I am always interested in why someone chose to make art as their career and how they did it …

A Call to Artists


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The Arts Council of Greater New Haven has put a call to artists to produce a post card for the Postcard International, An Art Show All proceeds go to Save the Children. Create your own artwork on a postcard from scratch, or manipulate/alter an existing postcard. Only one side will …

The Constable Exhibit and general chat


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Yesterday afternoon we took ourselves off to the National gallery to see the Constable exhibition and spent a pleasant couple of hours wandering from room to room. To my delight there are a couple of facsimiles of two small sketchbooks that Constable kept in 1813 and 1814 which people could …

Links, Tips and the Random Stripe Generator


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Sandie of abeautifulcraft has posted a huge list of clip art sites that house Free Victorian Images, Calling Cards, Post Cards, Photographs, Clip Art While I am at it Sandie has also provided this tutorial on how to print on fabric using Fabric softener as a fixative. On another note …

Elfwood


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If you enjoy viewing the work of illustrators wander over and find yourself lost at Elfwood as it claims to be the largest science fiction an fantasy art site on the web. For anyone who is interested in designing a quilt with a fantasy theme there are enough dragons, fairy …

Calligraphy on the Hong Kong Subway


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I found these images of Calligraphy on the Hong Kong Subway . I found this link by poking about Calligraphy of the Masters a site which offers information about Chinese calligraphy, including brief biographies of master calligraphers, and historical information.

Social History of Children’s Literature


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I stumbled across an interesting rich interlinked site of articles the other day. A Social History of Children’s Literature is the labor of Kay E. Vandergrift and what a trip we are taken on. I particularly enjoyed links in the list of illustrators at the end of Early Illustrators of …