Designer Fashion

 Just found this funny photo... my paint pants and shoes.

As you can see, I'm a messy painter!  With a bad habit of wiping my hands on my pants too. 

Other fashionista scenic designer trends?  One painter I know recomends wearing Hawaiian print shirts because the odd paint drip hardly shows.  And I knew one who wore old fashioned golf shoes - the kind with rubber spikes - so he could walk on wet floors without leaving footprints!

There Is Just Joy In It

 An interview with artist Yoshiko Yamamoto, whose woodblock prints amaze me!

She discusses why, in an age of AI, humans still need to make things ourselves.

I'll include just one of her prints here to give you the idea of her Craftsman / Japanese style:

 

Copyright Yoshiko Yamamoto

(I happen to own a copy of this print, so feel okay about showing it here.)  

There is something so wonderfully observed about her nature printsand a technical command that awes me... 

And here is an example of William Morris' work - his ideals of craft are referenced in the video.

Design by William Morris

Book Illustration

 

Map Art

I've been designing and drawing maps for a series of fantasy books that a friend and I have been writing.  Maps are fascinating, and making them is fun.

 

But a different friend just brought my attention to this amazing art map!

Watch the video.  Really.  It's long, and it's worth the time.  From People Make Games: 

"He Won't Stop Building a Map to an Imaginary Place

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Is8N7B9b0GQ

The enormous, wonderful, ever-changing, gameified, art map of Jerry Gretzinger!