Yes. A damned street lamp. Just an ordinary street lamp. A streetlamp created with a sense of taste and style, and chosen and placed with a sense of history and context. Just a damned streetlamp. In Venice. Try putting up a colourful sculptural metal tree in our town. Filed under:
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cartoon life: Campanile in Venice
I have enough sense to know a campanile tower when I see one, but still enough naive ignorance to not know specicifically what this is. I think this is one of the islands of the dead. I should be so embarrassed if I’m wrong, delighted if I’m right and willing
Continue readingcartoon life: Those Italian trees in Rome
I scrolled through some photos from the summer trip to Italy and spent some time fooling around in Popsicolor. As I periodically check the camera roll on the iPad some of the treatments stand out. Thought I’d share them. Filed under: art Tagged: Rome, trees
Continue readingcartoon life: Asleep. A dream.
Our older tuxedo. He goes outside, even in this weather. He is about 16 or 17 years old now. He is sleeping in this one. Really. Nice composite image built from sketches in Paper, filtered in Popsicolor. Composited, layered and painted some more in Procreate. Filed under: art Tagged: Cat,
Continue readingSketchy Thoughts: JFK: Class Enemy
on the main Kersplebedeb website: http://kersplebedeb.com/posts/jfk-class-enemy/
Continue readingcartoon life: more 22 cats tiny book: the PDF
A tiny delightful book of cat art It’s available at this dropbox link: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/23273/more%2022%20cats.pdf Filed under: art Tagged: art, cats, delightful book, ebook, free download, illustration, pdf
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Group of 7 In The News
Apparently, Canada is getting back the so-called “Arthur Lismer Collection”, comprising hundreds of personal items accumulated during the life of this obscure Group of 7 artist. So obscure in fact that I haven’t even heard of him, and as you might know, I study these guys. So lets analyze one of
Continue readingcartoon life: Another starry night
I seem to be on a bit of a theme with this dark sky stuff right now. Interesting. Filed under: art Tagged: night, stars
Continue readingcartoon life: Starry night and snow
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Continue readingcartoon life: The small chair
Sketchology, Popsicolor, Procreate. Sketchology is a newish drawing program which uses vectors, so the drawing is infinitely scalable. Needs a few tools just yet, I’d like the marker to work in multiply mode, or have a layer or two to put it behind the lines. Textured vector lines are cool,
Continue readingMelissa Fong: What do Lulu owner Chip Wilson and Justin Bieber have in common?
Yeah, while Justin Bieber probably thinks he’s adding value to whatever he sh*ts on, spandex-pant overlord Chip Wilson is taking liberty to “beautify” public spaces (namely the ones outside his gabillion dollar mansion) in Vancouver. … When Chip Wilson isn’t telling women that they are too fat to wear his
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Verdun and water…
Continue readingcartoon life: The More 22 Cats book has arrived.
Waiting impatiently all morning and now part of the afternoon, for the paper copies of the new cat book to arrive. Well, here it is. 20 altogether. Only 20 in the whole world. http://samupress.blogspot.ca/2013/10/the-more-22-cats-books.html Filed under: art, book, goods
Continue readingcartoon life: Pumpkin 2013
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Continue readingcartoon life: 20 monsters ebook
20 monsters ebook Now with the release of Mavericks, and iBooks installed on every such Mac, the ebooks I’ve put up at iTunes are also available on your Mac. 20 Monsters is free. Filed under: art, book Tagged: ebook, monsters
Continue readingThings Are Good: Stylish Pocket Art
Canadian artist Gary Taxali has teamed up with fashion retailer Harry Rosen to create pocket squares focused on Canadian. This is good because it seems so rare that Canadians celebrate their own talent in such a way. Celebrating the culturally-rich heritage of Canada and featured cities – Toronto, Montreal, Calgary
Continue readingcartoon life: Four more numbers
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Continue readingwmtc: on the internet, everybody knows you’re a dog (the story behind the iconic cartoon)
We all know the iconic cartoon the title of this post refers to. Boing Boing has republished a story about it, originally run in The Magazine, an ad-free, reader-supported magazine that looks really interesting. It’s a wonderful little piece: the story behind the story, a glimpse into the life of
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