Wrenaissance Art

This Greek island of Ithaca sponsors a poster contest every year for their annual festival. For more information on the contest and its rules, visit the Ten Images website. The selected posters will be made into narrow banners which will be hung from the street lamps in the town of Ithaca. There will also be [...]

April is International Fake Journal Month. This annual art-participation event was begun in 2001 by graphic designer Roz Stendahl. The Official International Fake Journal Month blog has lots of information and ideas for how to participate. This could be a fun way for people who already keep a journal to inspire themselves to try something [...]

(Poster image courtesy of Paulo Ormindo and the Escola Nacional Botânica Tropical) Paulo Ormindo at the Research Institute of the Rio de Janeiro Jardim Botânico emailed me this news update about the 2010 extension courses in botanical illustration offered at the Institute’s school. All classes are held at the school on Rua Pacheco Leão 2040 [...]

Think of stippling as pizzicato for the watercolor brush.

One of my New Year’s resolutions is to get my website and blog in presentation order in order to sell my illustration wares more effectively. This is a big challenge for someone who is a “complete techno-numpty” about web stuff (to use Helz Cuppleditch’s brilliant phrase over at the AOI forums)! To that end, I [...]

Psychetruth  has posted an amazing morphing video at YouTube that features all the famous portraits of female beauty since the Renaissance era (think Botticelli’s Venus to Picasso’s Françoise Gilot) flowing one into the other. Fascinating to watch how the basic facial geometry and the come-hither glances remain the same. 100 Years of Illustration was where [...]

The Margaret Flockton Award is a juried competition for black and white botanical illustrations held by the Botanic Gardens Trust in Sydney, Australia. Entry is open to botanical illustrators worldwide. In fact, last year, a Brazilian won the second prize. The artist retains all rights to his or her works. This year there is no [...]

Who: Artur Pereira, Brazilian folkloric sculptor (1920–2003). What: Wooden sculptures of animals from major Brazilian collections, organized and curated by Rodrigo Naves and Ricardo Homen. Where: Instituto Moreiro Salles, R. Marqûes São Vicente 476, Gávea, Rio de Janeiro. When: 8 October–6 December 2009. About the exhibit: The exhibit is installed in the Instituto’s newest space, [...]

Who: Maureen Bisilliat, an Anglo-Brazilian photographer. What: Career retrospective of photography, curated by the artist. Where: Instituto Moreiro Salles, R. Marqûes São Vicente 476, Gávea, Rio de Janeiro. When: 8 October 2009–17 January 2010. About the exhibit: Bisilliat curated and installed the assembly of works in the show, devoting one room or hallway to a [...]

Negative kerning is impossible when you are setting physical type. Well, unless you shave off the sides of the block manually, thereby creating a permanent negative kern for that letter.