The “Out of Sequence” show, which includes a Smithson strip (not the one excerpted above), is now up at the Thorne-Sagendorph Gallery at Keene State College, Keene, NH. The show features art by Shaenon Garrity, Nicholas Gurewitch, Hope Larson, Jenn Manley Lee, and Drew Weing, among others, and will run until December 6. I hope you’ll check it out if you’re in the area!
Inspired by my recent visit to the Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art. The background is watercolor and ink, with pasted paper on top.
I highly recommend visiting the Museum – it’s an attractive, friendly space with three galleries (currently showing: Tommy dePaola, E. H. Shepard, and Carle), a library of children’s books, and an art studio where kids and adults can make things. And probably my favorite museum bookshop ever. In addition to a vast array of picture books, they carry mammoth art books like Kramer’s Ergot 7, the Sunday Press collections of Little Nemo in Slumberland, Little Sammy Sneeze, and Sundays with Walt and Skeezix, as well as a smattering of other comics work. And right down the road you can buy dark chocolate peanut butter cups. Well worth the trip.
Just added the short video (played at about 6X realtime) of me making a watercolor illustration. I posted it to the News section of my illustration site awhile back, but it might be new to you. Just click the “Watch Brian Draw” button near the top of the page.
Hello! In an effort to Make Things Simpler, I’m merging the former “News” section on my illustration site with my sketchblog. In an ideal world they would combine to form a ten-story high crime fighting robot, but hopefully you’ll be happy to settle for a smart-looking webpage. Plus: I’m going to try turning comments on again. We’ll see how that goes.
The “Out of Sequence” comics art exhibit (previously on display at the Krannert Museum in Champaign, IL and The Laboratory of Art and Ideas at Belmar in Belmar, CO) will appear in a third venue: the Thorne-Sagendorph Art Gallery at Keene State College in Keene, NH. The new showing will be up from October 23 to December 6, 2009.
The exhibit features a Smithson strip which I drew, and lots of great art from artists including Shaenon Garrity, Nicholas Gurewitch, Hope Larson, Jenn Manley Lee, and Drew Weing, among others. It should be a terrific show, and I’m looking forward to seeing it in person now that it’s going to be in my neck of the woods.
Here’s a short video from Univ. of Illinois on the “Out of Sequence” exhibit (featuring a Smithson strip) currently on display in the Krannert Museum. Nice shots of the installation and interviews with co-curators John Jennings and Damian Duffy.
http://illinois.edu/here_now/videos.html?videoID=TMxiPlTb4UGMz77NimhY4A
Anybody out there in the Champaign area that’s seen the show?
