Someone reminded me how cool this sour video was. i like the fact it is filmed in shorts and edited together, must have taken ages.....below is a little

animation about a hungry cat.

Talya Baldwin, other illustrators, artists....

Luke Best.
Marcel Dzama. Untitled, 2006. Four part drawing, watercolor and ink on paper.
Cy Twombly, The Four Seasons:The Museum of Modern Art, New York.
David Hockney's a bigger splash.
Morteza Zahedi. from the butterfly book.
Baia, 2002. Picture courtesy, Imperial War Museum. Hughie O'Donoghue.

Gregory Blackstock, The Buzz Bombs, 19 x 39, 2007, crayon, marker, pencil on paper.

TORN WATER by Tom Gauld. Illustration for a short story by John Lynch published in the THE INDEPENDENT

the interviews part II

Talya Baldwin.

What are your daily inspirations?
Maps, old paper, birds, books about exploration, medieval manuscript illumination, my friend Phil Hall (www.philhalldoesthis.co.uk <http://www.philhalldoesthis.co.uk> ), old film posters, taxidermy, dead things generally, comics, Tom Gauld, Morteza Zahedi, monoprinting, letterpress.

How do you get out of being stuck with drawers block?
I stop and do something else! And I try not to get angry. I look at the work of other artists I like. Failing that, I go to my boxing class and hit stuff. It really helps.

What materials do you use?
I'm obsessed with biros and fineliners. I have millions. Also brush/pen and ink, coloured pencil, acrylic and paper. I have to have a good white pencil and a white oil bar, for some reason.

Is the computer important in the composition of your work or just necessary for print and email?
Sometimes I scan things in and then remove bits of the image that I don't like. It's useful for changing the size and position of elements within a drawing, but I generally find that becuase I'm crap with computers, if I manipulate an image too much it just ends up looking incredibly clumsy. Also, you can fall into the trap of drawing lazily and thinking 'Oh it's ok, I can just Photoshop it.'

What are your favourite projects to date?
I'm at a pretty early stage in my career, so I'm still kind of finding my feet. Last year I was asked to design a beer label for a little brewing company in Ottawa, so I did a drawing I was really proud of and they loved it (or at least they said they did), but then they took it and never paid me! Bastards...

Is their an art movement or decade you are most inspired by?
I love medieval illuminated manuscripts, like the Book of Kells and the Tres Riches Heures; anything with little gargoyles and creatures and stuff going on in the margins. Also pre-Renaissance religious painting by people like Duccio, especially the way they didn't understand perspective properly so they made it up as they went along.

Which other artists / illustrators, do you admire ?
Luke Best, Morteza Zahedi (or Zehadi - I always get muddled), Marcel Dzama, Paul Davis, Tom Gauld, Gregory Blackstock, Hughie O'Donoghue (just discovered him at Leeds Art Gallery today; amazing painter), David Hockney, Cy Twombly

to see more of talya's drawings, www.talyabaldwin.co.uk,

si scott, and nice typogrphy

also this lady has some nice origami lettering to. http://gesahansen.com/

http://www.mariohugo.com/#/?works=83 look at these stunning illustrations

other typography i like http://www.non-format.com/archive/hanne-hukkelberg/1/ they do alot of the varoom covers.

cant remember where i found this but it's letters made from clothes. or ( textiles)

Written by Viktor on May 26th, 2008

I am mesmerized by the work of Si Scott. I love the organic yet controlled forms that permeate each and every one of his compositions. Scott possesses a unique visual style that is clearly recognizable. One thing that also surprises me about Scott’s work is the ability to successfully integrate type in his commercial pieces. In the era of Adobe Illustrator and vector art it is refreshing to see that his intricate pieces are hand drawn". Si Scott is part of the design duo 'we are bitch' at youarebeautiful.com.

Typophile Film Festival 5 Opening Titles from Brent Barson on Vimeo.

The interviews.........

HEATHER GATLEY

What are your daily inspirations?

Bowl of cheerios (inspiration to get up!), boredom, my potted garden that changes everyday, itsnicethat.com

How do you get out of being stuck with drawers block?

If I'm struggling with that I find if I just grab a pencil and just draw literally anything lying around it just starts the ball rolling and takes the pressure off! It might be a rubbish drawing but then you've got it over with and the next one will always be more focussed and ten times better!

What materials do you use?

Ink, paper, paint and the trusty pencil.

Is the computer important in the composition of your work or just necessary?

Depends on the job really, but generally the computer helps me a lot in working out compositions.

What are your favourite projects to date?

Hmm thats difficult. I really enjoyed working on the Waitrose Essential range because it was doing simple watercolours which really got me back to basics because I couldn't rely on the computer to sort out any mistakes! I've done work for Illustrated Ape and Traveller magazine recently which were both fun.

Which other artists / illustrators, do you admire ?

Oh so many, but favourites are Egon Schiele, Cy Twombly and David Hockney. Illustrators I like at the moment... Alan Baker's work is great, Luke Best, Jon Klasson, Camilla Engman... and my good friends Debbie Powell and Dan Haskett!

365 news pictures.

I went to the see the Ghislane Howard exhibition the other day at the Imperial War Museum North. I read about her exhibition and was curious to know how it was executed. This picture on the left shows all the paintings on boards taken from newspaper photographs. I wasn't that impressed with how the work was presented but like the idea of painting a picture from the newspaper for everyday of the year. The paintings did have a court room sketch feel about them and alot were to do with war and suffering. They were about 80% figurative. The text accompanying the work said ; "the work raises questions as to whether we are over-exposed to images of conflict and if the way images are produced and published changes our way of looking at them". Howard said of her way of working "each day I choose one image from The Guardian, that strikes a chord with me and make a small painting. They have become a way of giving time back to these images and the individuals represented in them".

goodbye gonzo..

During the summer i watched the documentary about the late Hunter. S. Thompson, who the film fear and loathing in las Vegas is based on. He was a investigative writer and activist and lead a crazy hedonistic lifestyle in seventies America. This documentary was narrated by Johnny Depp and has a lot of footage with Hunter and his friends and family. Ralph Steadman, the British illustrator is also featured in the film as he accompanied Hunter on his investigations and documented the journey's with drawings. I'd really like to get a copy of the documentary if anyone knows where i can?...