I’m posting these in honor of Hank’s 4th birthday, which was on Wednesday. They’re more excerpts from our travel journal. These were drawn in our hotel room in Sydney last month:
Ever wonder if you force your kid to do too much traveling? I do. We bought this new journal in mid-December and wrote down all [...]
Yup, it’s the golden age of obsessive, niche online collections and the blogs devoted to them and I love it. Sad will be the day that I’ve just seen too many international Hobbit collections, creepy Santa Claus photo collections, and dirty scrimshaw collections to care anymore. In the meantime, here’s Letterheady, a blog devoted to [...]
One of my ex-drawing workshop students started a blog that is weird and awesome. Ladies and gentleman, I give you Taylor Bancroft:
Yeah, me too.
Also, Dana and I will be teaching this workshop again at the Portland Art Museum next fall. If you’re a teenager in the Portland area who likes to draw, you should apply! [...]
I’m drawing a map and made a file of nice maps to draw inspiration from. I was admiring the lettering on this one and realized it’s a map of Westchester County, New York - where I grew up. It’s almost unrecognizable. I guess the Tappanzee Bridge was named for a part of the Hudson once [...]
and about Mark Boutavant. I love this book so much - I have to post more illustrations from it.
Mouk goes to Finland
to China
to India (and elswhere)
Infectious ukelele music performed by Japanese animals:
Around the World With Mouk, by frenchman, Mark Boutavant:
And Pingu, who lives at the south pole and speaks penguin language:
Nug nug!
[Audio clip: view full post to listen]
Something EXCITING and TOP SECRET.
The Decemberists played the Big Day Out festival there this year and Hank and I, along with the other moms and kids, went along. We saw Auckland, Surfers Paradise, Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide, and Perth in three weeks. Highlights were: watching the sun set over Auckland from the ferry, hearing Joanna Newsom debut songs at Sydney [...]
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