Travel

Thoughts of summer travel have been running through my brain as I plan for travels, and I'm trying to figure out some flight options....

Illustration Friday-Early

"Arriving early always ensured that there was enough cake."

Illustration Friday-Equipment

"Now that he had the right equipment, he was ready."

New studio Space!

I have nearly finished organizing my new studio space. It is a more spacious room, and has some great sunlight, I'm looking forward to creating in here. I'm still not used to it though, even though the desks are arranged in basically the same way, it doesn't feel as cozy as it did. I didn't show you the other part of the room which still has an assortment of items to be moved somewhere else.
Also the apple tree out front, which is in direct view from my studio window is blooming like mad! The blossoms have taken over the tree, which means that the apples once grown in will probably weigh the tree down quite a bit. To stand under the tree you can hear a steady buzzing sound from all the bees that are pollenating the flowers.

Meathaus-Website

I Came across the website Meathaus, and like the selection of work I see so far. The Meathaus website describes itself as:
"A loosely defined collective of friends and associates contributing to irregular comics and art anthologies and an art-blog-website with a special emphasis on drawing, sketchbooks and comics."
Naturally this would be something that would interest me. There are interesting postings on artists, their work and selections ranging from art, animation, comics, photography, design, and other categories. There is a particular flavour to the selections. If it were music I would define it as indie, but it is art...so I'm not sure what word comes to mind-perhaps part of the appeal and what makes it feel fresh to me is the drawings are more masculine(which is a change from much of the work I come across on Etsy and many other design/decor blogs). Check it our for yourselves and let me know what you think of it.
http://meathaus.com/
Screen shot from the meathaus website.

Treasury by natalya1905

Yay, someone featured me in their etsy registry! http://www.etsy.com/treasury/4bee9d2b15706d91e2628bc7/somewhere-sometime

An Old Recognized Favourite

"Often I am amused by my own idiotically tough will to live. I spit, choke, shove, crowd through in order to have success. But I would squeeze through all the sewers of the world, through all forms of debasement and defilement just in order to paint. I must do that. Down to the last drop all my imagination of living forms must be squeezed out of me, then it will be a pleasure to get rid of this damned torture."

Max Beckman, April 21st, 1915. From the Library of Great Painters: Max Beckman by Stephan Lackner.

I am cleaning my studio space which has just recently moved rooms in my house, and is still quite disorderly. The benefits to cleaning is that you can find things that were long forgotten. I found this quote that I had written down probably 5 years ago. I love it when you can find an artist that you love not only for their paintings, but also for their true conviction as an artist.

Image is a self portrait of Beckmann. Taken from: http://greenlanddesign.org/coleg/2008/12/expressionism/beckmann_self2/.