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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 .

Garden flowers

Flowers currently in bloom in my garden.

Process Junkie

Very nice stuff, Lucio Alberto Ruiz-Diaz, from NYC illustrator and sculptor. Probably too small to see but great detail in his sculptures. It would be best to visit his blog page. He promotes many illustrators in his blog and features various books. The image bleow is from one of his sites called Scribletts.

Lichtfaktor light writing

Cruising the web through Scene 360 and this particular video was highlighted, more featured on LichtFaktor's Vimeo page

Starwars V Startrek from LICHTFAKTOR on Vimeo.

Allyson Haller News: Prism International

Allyson Haller News: Prism International

Brand blogs and design

I continue to be atracted to designer blogs as well as blogs that deal with branding. I've listed some in my links section. I found this one, Blog oMotives, particularly appealing. I would not take the risk of rating it, make your own judgement.

Wall Animation and Chalk Animation

I had read about this film by BLU and recently stumbled upon it while viewing some films on Vimeo. His work is, in my estimation, amazing! Partly becuase I can imagine the amount of work it took to do - including prep, pre-drawings, procurring a crew, location scouting, working around and with the contstraints of other peoples schedules. The list goes on, non the less a daunting task in terms of production. Beautiful work I must say. I really do not know much about this artist, he has a website called BLUBLU and he post a fair amount of Walls he has done as well as Videos.

I've also posted a video below that that was done on chalkboards. To me very fluid


The short film by Blu produced approximately a year ago.

an ambiguous animation painted on public walls.
Made in Buenos Aires and in Baden (fantoche)

blublu.org/
blublu.org/sito/video/muto.htm

music by Andrea Martignoni
produced by Mercurio Film
assistant: Sibe

MUTO a wall-painted animation by BLU from blu on Vimeo.

This film was done in a circular space on chalkboards... I believe there is a mention in the comment section on how long it took to film. I like it mainly besause of its fluidity (yea..that's a word). The music is ethereal; just the way I like it.

Firekites - AUTUMN STORY - chalk animation from Lucinda Schreiber on Vimeo.

David Palumbo

Hello. It has been a while since I posted. NO excuses.

A successful month overall. Coordinated a major staging event at Heinz Hall; a recognition dinner for work. I feel I covered every base that was expected and surprised them with the final look. I still find it difficult to deal with the owner of the staging company, but I feel I have more patience than he has and I know more of what we need and how to execute. A picture of the stage is below. I also know when to step back and when to step forward.

As I was catching up on the RSS feeds, I looked over one of my favorite illustrators, David Palumbo. He has a web site appropriately named David Palumbo and I follow his blog, which he call, Dave Palumbo blogspot.

Below are some samples of his work.

I think his nudes are exquisite. At times a bit raw in the poses, but the style of painting and his brushstrokes inspire me. The one above is one of the ones I feel is very tastefully done yet modest in the nudity.

alinastephanie 10X17 oil on illustration board

Most of David's paintings are small (5X7) but they can get rather large (18X22).
The particular one above, "AlinaStephanie", is very cool. Look at the image the two girls are standing in front of - it takes a trained eye and a fair amount of patience to find something like that. I am guessing that they were not even aware of the large mural behind them. A very cool exercise in wondering who they are. Are they looking at the approaching transit? Did an accident just happen and only one of them notices while the other is simple complacently waiting for the bus?

It gives me an idea for a way to do more figure drwaings. Taking snapshots of people at the transit stops - and then sketching from there. Yes, for sure, I am sure it is done all the time. I would also think there is some danger - I can imagine some young thug or grouchy person yelling because their photo was taken with out permission. I am also wondering if any artist actually get their subjects to sign releases?

Look at the eyes on this subject. I can just imagine the comment you might get after snapping her pic. She looks a bit innocent yet there is a hint of surprise in her eyes. And possibly an inquisition.

randi 13X18 oil on illustration board

The last two paintings were part of a series he submit to the Art House in Philadelphia. If you cruise through the artist list you will see his name.

David does a fair amount of commercial illustration for magazines, movie poster, book covers.
Please check out his page or blog.