Origami Street Art in Angers, France by Mademoiselle Maurice
Wow. Gorgeous. Hope it doesn’t rain.
I wonder if we’ll see anything like this at this weekend’s Origami Convention!
Background paintings for the Maurice Sendak Google doodle. Fellow doodler, Jennifer Hom did a brilliant job leading the creative on this and doing all the heavy lifting, including the characters, animation, and the layouts and block-ins for these BGs. I was happy to do my small part and take the backgrounds to a finish.
I was even happier to use this opportunity to study Sendak’s work a little more closely. I originally planned to paint these backgrounds in watercolor, but due to the complexity of the project and the short timeline I had to work in, I opted for digital. Yet I still feel like I got to learn a thing or two about how he composed images and made sense out of the most amazing kinds of clutter, whether a dense jungle, buildings from the pantry, or the skeletal remains of a farmhouse ripe for a birthday parade.
Happy 85th birthday to a true master! You can see the fully animated tribute here:
Here are the fully composed backgrounds for the Maurice Sendak doodle— Thanks Dutton!
(via troisenator)
unicorn-meat-is-too-mainstream:
Library Of Colorful Decay- Canisters Filled With Unclaimed Insane Asylum Human Remains
Well this is rather extraordinary.
“Between 1963 and 1969 Ulla Wiggen made a series of paintings of circuit board schematics and close up studies of the interiors of electrical components and technical equipment. Elements of realism, abstraction and minimalism co-exist in equal measures but seen in the context of the Ulla’s later work these meticulous acrylic paintings of conductive pathways might be more accurately viewed as a kind of portraiture.”
- dataisnature.com
A cross-section of wall paints from an 18th century theater. Each band represents a different coat of paint that was visualized with reflected light microscopy at 100-times magnification.
Image by Natasha Loeblich, Colonial Williamsburg Foundation.
So, just to recap, THIS IS PAINT.
Klaus Pichler - Skeletons in the Closet: Museum of Natural History, Vienna (2010-ongoing)
Artist’s statement:
“What does a museum look like behind the scenes? How are exhibits stored when they are not on display?
The focus of this study is not on the exhibition spaces of the museum, but on the space behind the scenes, particularly depots, cellars, and storage rooms assigned to individual departments which are generally not accessible to the public.
These spaces are used for the storage of countless exhibits belonging to various collections, sorted following a rigidly scientific classification system, but also taking into account the limited storage space available.”
Just so wonderful.
Christophe Jacrot, Winter in Town (New York City).
This is making me wish for new york and snow so badly.
Okay, New York, stop it. We get it. You can be beautiful sometimes and a tolerable place to exist.