WIFI– Gary Yourofsky on Animal Rights

 

Gary Yourofsky at Georgia Tech,  2010, talking about animal rights. Very moving speech. The images of animal slaughter were terribly, terribly upsetting.

Illustration Friday–Pattern

They told her that there was a pattern to everything. It might not seem obvious right now, but there was. She would find out. It was part of growing up.

It wasn’t what she wanted to hear, that same old banality that everyone repeated. She didn’t want to be told that there was a pattern to everything. She wanted to know how to design a life that would stand out from the common pattern.

The problem was, if anyone did have this wisdom to dispense and she followed it, she would find herself enmeshed right back into the human fabric, a part of yet another pattern.

Artists Need Discipline

Someone I know said that 'should' and 'must' are self-limiting words, especially for artists. There is no 'you should make art', no 'you must work hard'. If you have to force yourself, it is completely pointless, he said, being inspired to do art is more to the point.

Which, from one angle, is true, but then again if you wait around to be inspired and inspiration strikes you once in a blue moon, you won't be producing much or any art, would you?

Read more about why artists need discipline.

Children’s Book Illustrations–The Splendid Weekend

Roughs for ‘The Splendid Weekend’.

You won’t believe the things we did. We had difficult time believing them ourselves. But they are all, all true!

The Smartist–Cow Dung Saga I

Illustration Friday–Secret

“I have a secret,” he began. “When the moon comes out…”

Then the moon came out and we saw what he meant.

Sketchbook–Garden

It was a beautiful garden with a brinjal tree in purple bloom.