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Urban Sketchers: Incident at Lady Meredith - Workshops on my mind! posted by Marc Holmes on Urban Sktecher

Urban Sketchers: Incident at Lady Meredith - Workshops on my mind!: The last couple days I've been out painting Lady Meredith House , at the corner of Pins and Peel, in the heart of the Golden Mile. I pass ...

 

Spring is here, the weather is getting nice . Clearly time to get back outside and paint more of the city-river series.

Blogger Stephen Gardner's latest sketch

Visited Stephen Gardner's blog today...he does some great work. Please visit his site, "Sketch of the Day"

Here is his most recent post.

What I like is that he tries to post his drawing as often as possible. I may not be able to do a sketch a day like he does...so I will start a bit conservative and try to do a sketch a week.

Today is veterans day and I have the day off.

I am reading Dan Brown's latest book "The Lost Symbol". He makes me curious with his many references, Albrecht Durer as an example. So I did a google search of the engraving below and came across a large jpeg in a blogger's site. Whom had an interesting entry about making life simple so I posted it. See my entry of "10 Simple Rules for Living My Life" Back to Dan Brown's book. He makes reference to Albrecht Durer's symbols in the engraving Melancolia I which leads to another blogger, Theodor Pavlopoulis' The Peacock Tail and a interpretation of images form the Durer engraving and the golden ratio. Makes for some interesting reading, but makes me feel like there is so much to learn in this world and so much we do not know. Mysteries as well as reality.

Draw Serge blog

Came across this blog through a feed I subscribe to called The Little Chimp Society / the Illustration News Portal.

Wikipedia definition: Serge Wiki

Serge Gainsbourg (2 April 1928 – 2 March 1991) was a French singer-songwriter, actor and director. Gainsbourg's varied musical style and individuality made him difficult to categorize. His legacy has been firmly established, and he is often regarded as one of the world's most influential musicians. Not sure if the links from Wiki are active.

Gainsbourg led a very interesting life and this is the reason I love connecting to other illustrators and blogs. People have such varied interests. Just take a moment and look at the web site which is dedicated to Serge, of course it is called Draw Serge . There are a great number of ilustations and links back to the contributing illustrator. The Draw Serge blog is managed by Jonathan Edwards, who also has a very interesting site in which he post his own illustrations.

The Draw Serge blog is soley dedicated to illustrations of the muscian Serge Gainsbourg, Jonathan has included links to reference more about Serge. Please visit his site, dutifully maintatined. Below is an illustration from the site by Tom Crowley.

The Draw Serge blog interested me because of a particular illustration by Joanna Fallon. I loved the style, which led me to her blog, appropriately named Jo Fallon Illustration and she has a link to her web site, Jo Fallon . I've posted a comment on her blog and hope to do a short interview about her techniques and method. If successful and she is willing I will post the interview here and perhaps I may post it on one of the many websites I frequent.

I originally came across Jo Fallon throught the Jully 22 news feed from LCS. The Little Chimp Society/LCS posts illustrators from all over the world and their frequent feeds provides links to the illustrator web site or blog. They also conduct many interviews and are a good reosurce for additional links.

Below is Jo Fallon's illustration of Serge that piqued my curiosity and the original sketch before she manipulated it in Photoshop.

I must admit, I do not know much about this guy, this musician. So if you are curious check him out at his Official web site, SergeGainsbourg. He died of a heart attack in 1991 and it is reported that during his funeral Paris came to a standstill .

Sculptor Mark Leichliter

Exocubic Studio

His blog makes for a very cool read. Love how he references and links material. To say the least he mentions the works of Brian Eno; software reviews and intallation/execution of his works.

The Sketch Book Project

March 13, 2009. Randomness: Stumbled upon this blog link to the Sketch Book Project . Some very nice sketches. He has links to other artists. You'll notice this particular one almost has a sense of doodling, but with his shading and modeling delivers his own style and conveys atmosphere, character and attitude to the musician.

You can find more sketch book artist in the links column,

Artist Sketchbooks Online