Exquisitely delicate illustrations from John Gould's Monograph of the Trochilidae (1849-1861).
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I've been researching contemporary fashion illustrators, and my what wonderful images I have found! Makes me wish I could draw......
Today I want to share a picture that has been stuck near my computer for a good couple of years now, and one that gives me endless amusement. My good friend, work colleague and talented illustrator Sarah Skeate drew this picture on a post-it following a discussion about the incredible wrongness of that 80's TV show The Krankies (husband and wife duo, wife dresses as a schoolboy, husband plays the father....nooooo). Always raises a smile. Sarah sorry this is probably not the illustration of choice to present your work to my audience of, oh, at least 3 people, but I encourage everyone to look at your site!
If Andy Warhol were alive, he'd be the ripe old age of 82 today. Whatever you think of his art, he undeniably changed the visual landscape of the 20th century, putting to canvas a potent mix of consumerism, death and celebrity that remains an iconic symbol of what it meant/means to be modern. Some of my favourite works are his early advertising illustrations from the 1950s before he shot to super stardom. In particular, his drawings of shoes, employing the use of the blotted line, bold colours and whimsical slogans, always make me smile.
[pullquote author="Andy Warhol"]I never understood why when you died, you didn't just vanish, everything could just keep going on the way it was only you just wouldn't be there. I always thought I'd like my own tombstone to be blank. No epitaph, and no name. Well, actually, I'd like it to say 'figment.'[/pullquote]
[pullquote author="Andy Warhol"]People need to be made more aware of the need to work at learning how to live because life is so quick and sometimes it goes away too quickly.[/pullquote]
[pullquote author="Andy Warhol"]They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.[/pullquote]