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runningbeautiful:

onwardsanddownwards:

searchingforbliss:

A preview of my workout routine next year haha

I have four cats! Perfect workout for me :-)

poor Sheldon. He doesn’t know what he’s in for.

SI on the Fly!: MicroVisions

societyillustrators:

MicroVisions is now on display on our Second Floor! This is one of our favorite annual exhibits. It gives illustration and fantasy lovers from all over the world a chance to snag an original piece for a good cause.

Artists featured in the MicroVisions Exhibit have generously donated their time…

buzzfeed: stop what you’re doing and look at this.

buzzfeed:

stop what you’re doing and look at this.


mediaite:

Imagine A World Without Hate

(via hellogiggles)

SI on the Fly!: The Society Does Not Censor

societyillustrators:

image After much delay, the Society of Illustrators’ 54th Annual of American Illustration has reached the US and is now available in our Museum Shop and online. We wish the delay in receiving Illustrators 54 was a simple printing error or even a problem in customs, but the story goes deeper.

So this happened on a project I’ve been working on…..

During the month of February a group of illustrators and myself will be creating an illustration per day on the theme of love.   I am really quite excited to be part of this and am hoping it will break my 5-year hiatus from art.  Working at the Society is great, but it really puts pressure on me to create good art when I’m surrounding by such talented colleagues.  I think sharing this art on a blog with people I admire so much will force me to follow through with it.  It will be interesting to see if my confidence builds in 28 days. You can check out my first illustration on the Month of Love blog!  Many thanks to Kristina Carroll for organizing this and to Jeanine Henderson for creating this awesome header! 

During the month of February a group of illustrators and myself will be creating an illustration per day on the theme of love.  

I am really quite excited to be part of this and am hoping it will break my 5-year hiatus from art.  Working at the Society is great, but it really puts pressure on me to create good art when I’m surrounding by such talented colleagues.  I think sharing this art on a blog with people I admire so much will force me to follow through with it.  It will be interesting to see if my confidence builds in 28 days.

You can check out my first illustration on the Month of Love blog! 

Many thanks to Kristina Carroll for organizing this and to Jeanine Henderson for creating this awesome header! 

Django reference to Roy Rogers

Tried to post this over the weekend but failed.  I was, and still am, obsessed with horses, so when I saw Django this weekend I knew immediately why Tarantino had Django pick the palomino in that one scene, and then there was the thing at the end.  

I saw Django last night and was probably the only one in the theater who got this reference

Because I love horses.

thereconstructionists: American cartoonist and author Lynda Barry (born January 2, 1956) is as much a storyteller as she is a visual philosopher. From her 1999 graphic-novel-turned-off-Broadway-hit The Good Times Are Killing Me, exploring the interracial relationship between two girls, to her long-running, deeply empathic weekly comic strip Ernie Pook’s Comeek, Barry’s instantly recognizable works are invariably imbued with equal parts humor, irreverence, sensitivity, and wisdom. In 2009, her graphic novel What Is, published the previous year, received an Eisner Award for Best Reality-Based Work. But perhaps the most remarkable quality of Barry’s work is precisely its defiance of reality — the whimsy and wit with which she blurs the line between the real and, to borrow Sartre’s term, the irreal to peel away at some simple truth or grand complexity of what it means to be human. Learn more: Wikipedia  |  Books  |  Literary Jukebox

thereconstructionists:

American cartoonist and author Lynda Barry (born January 2, 1956) is as much a storyteller as she is a visual philosopher. From her 1999 graphic-novel-turned-off-Broadway-hit The Good Times Are Killing Me, exploring the interracial relationship between two girls, to her long-running, deeply empathic weekly comic strip Ernie Pook’s Comeek, Barry’s instantly recognizable works are invariably imbued with equal parts humor, irreverence, sensitivity, and wisdom.

In 2009, her graphic novel What Is, published the previous year, received an Eisner Award for Best Reality-Based Work. But perhaps the most remarkable quality of Barry’s work is precisely its defiance of reality — the whimsy and wit with which she blurs the line between the real and, to borrow Sartre’s term, the irreal to peel away at some simple truth or grand complexity of what it means to be human.

Learn more: Wikipedia  |  Books  |  Literary Jukebox

For Christmas this year I wanted to get @alphacolin something fun and unique.  And with help from Clay Rodery I was able to do that!   Clay created this awesome portrait of Colin.  I wanted it to look like a graphic novel because we’ve been getting into some awesome comics lately.   I really enjoyed working with Clay.  It was really fun to see him go through the process, and I’m happy to report that Colin loved the art!  He’s currently using it as his avatar and it makes me smile everytime I see him post something.  

For Christmas this year I wanted to get @alphacolin something fun and unique.  And with help from Clay Rodery I was able to do that!  

Clay created this awesome portrait of Colin.  I wanted it to look like a graphic novel because we’ve been getting into some awesome comics lately.  

I really enjoyed working with Clay.  It was really fun to see him go through the process, and I’m happy to report that Colin loved the art!  He’s currently using it as his avatar and it makes me smile everytime I see him post something.