Carson Ellis

New in the shop

Carson — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 07:51:19 +0000

A triptych of silk-screened prints featuring kids on horses. If I’m any of them, it’s the smiling, chubby girl in the riding helmet.

Also, a new poster:

Or newly available anyway. This one’s from The Decemberists Hazards of Love tour last year.

Asafo Flags

Carson — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 23:54:29 +0000

via an ambitious project collapsing. See more and read about them here.

February

Carson — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 07:49:32 +0000

Hank dictates and I illustrate, part 2

Carson — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 08:20:17 +0000

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 the flights we’ve taken since then in the back of it:

Letterheady

Carson — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 07:46:10 +0000

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 interesting letterhead. Some examples:

George Grosz, 1958

Guerrilla Girls, 1995

Nikola Tesla, 1900

taylor taylor taylor taylor TAYLOR

Carson — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 21:33:36 +0000

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! It’s fun and free. Visit our page on the museum website or our class blog for more info.

Amazing, airborne Colin, part 2

Carson — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 09:12:05 +0000

Chester

Carson — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 08:54:05 +0000

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 called the Tappan Sea?

And here’s a photo of me (in the middle) growing up there, 200 some odd years later. That’s my cute sister, Erica, on the right:

I’m still thinking about Mouk

Carson — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 19:49:35 +0000

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)

International cute day

Carson — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 18:29:14 +0000

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!