Back to Earth by Andrew Rae

Andrew Rae has illustrated a lovely simple wordless comic strip about an astronaut who struggles with adjusting back to normal life on earth after having flown to the moon. The simple black & white line drawings and his choice of framing & composition for each scene are perfect, click here to see it all.

Buildings & Vampires

This short animation directed by Sebastian Baptista & Nico Casavecchia illustrates the story Max makes up for his mam at the start of 'Where the Wild Things Are'. The combination of animation on top of live action stick puppets is nicely done and integrated pretty seamlessly.

Threadless

Hi there fellow Tinderboxers.

I wonder if you have all heard of Threadless? They're a very well-known tshirt company that receives illustrations from the general public. If your illustration/design is selected, it goes up for voting in their public forum. After 7 days, if you have enough votes from the forum, they print your tshirt and give you lots of delicious cash-money!

Can you help me get my design printed by going to Threadless and scoring it? Pretty please? You have to create an account, but its quick and painless! I often go to threadless just to look at all the fabulous designs that are submitted.
Anyhoo, my design is a silly tee/onesy for kids that somehow got selected for consideration. WOOHOO!

Also, all you talented tinderboxers should give it a go.

Wish me luck and thanks for voting :)

CLICK HERE TO VOTE FOR MY DESIGN

Ridiculous Pencil Lead Sculptures

Dalton Ghetti carves amazing miniature sculptures out of the tip of a pencil. See more here.

Parc de Belleville

A childrens' exhibition I stumbled upon while visiting Parc de Belleville.

Pixar: Day and Night

Pixar is famous for their award winning animated feature films. They also produce little show-piece animations to accompany new releases in cinemas. This one, Day and Night is shown before Toy Story 3. If you get a chance to see it on the big screen, it's captivating!

Charles Avery

I really like this guy. I should send him an invite for this Blog!

"Working across a range of media, Avery's art is characterised by formal beauty, humour and a spirit of philosophical enquiry, and is influenced by the work of (among others) William Blake, PG Woodehouse, Jorge Luis Borges, Joseph Beuys and Joseph Kosuth..."

Big Blue Thank You Monster

This is Big Blue. He is part of an series of Illustrated greeting cards that I am currently working on.

'Wheel of Peace'

http://www.thewhole9.com/thepeaceproject-full.php?id=324

Breakbot - Baby I'm Yours (feat. Irfane)

Caroline Leaf: The Street (1976)

New custom artwork in my studio

New work: Luisa & Peter.
Paper sculpture in a wood box with glass.

New custom artwork from my studio.

This commissioned work is a gift from my wonderful friend Mercedes for her cousins Luisa and Peter, who celebrate their silver jubilee.

Mercedes asked me to include the Romanesque chapel in which they were married and evoked the beautiful garden, where it is located.

Luisa and Peter accompanied by their sons and friendly dogs. I hope you enjoy it!.

A big hug!!

Tati

new work in progress

whoops !!
I meant this post to go on my own blog but it went here ,and well .....it seems a shame to not let it stay :D
(not too much to report) , but I am keeping going with some new drawings , its a good time of year to see a lot of people you wouldnt normally see.
Summer is always busy , I prefer the quieter times and have to remember that I am not an Island (challenging)
B.T.W tinderboxers , the idea for a collective response to song lyrics through drawing is still going to happen .....I am musing it along and will put up a call late aug early sept.
If anyone has any suggestions or whatnot please post them here on the comments :D
stay happy

Melbourne Poster Competition

2010 Brief

"I haven’t failed; I’ve had 10,000 ideas that didn’t work 
– Benjamin Franklin

We think Mr. Franklin had a nice way of looking at things. So the 2010 competition theme is ‘A Glass Half Full’.
 For those who don’t know, this saying refers to optimism. Some people see situations with optimism (Franklin – glass half full), and some see situations with pessimism (glass half empty).

We would like you to design a positive poster in response to this theme. Judges will be looking for original concepts, lateral thinking and inspired designs. The poster will be up in Melbourne streets, so keep in mind it should also standout against the city landscape."

Prizes – 1st

Adobe CS5, Wacom Intuos 4 Tablet, IdN Feature Article & Subscription, Spook Mag Subscription, Pantone Colour Bridge, KeepCup

Prizes – 2nd/3rd Place

IdN Subscription, KeepCup

ZINE 4/circus

Hello all,

I thought you would like to see the cover of the ZINE 4/circus.
The beautiful original artwork is by Claire Gallagher and I just messed with the text.
Hmmm. Summer Edition went well.
I sold a few of my own Slow fanzines, along with the issues from Tinderbox Zine2 /In These Shoes, Zine 3/Picture Show (thank you Michelle!) and the Zine 4 (Circus).
Thank you all for participating and visiting at Summer Edition!
And.. I have learnt that next time I do need more time to do a good job of it so, no more mad, crazy deadlines coming from this corner. Just mildly crazy I hope...

elida.

There is no such thing as a white van in Paris!

Grafitti Vans Around 11ème

Zine4

Hi all,

Sorry for the late late notice, but
the other day talking to Damo and Denise,
we thought it'd be a good idea to publish our zine nr. 4
for the Summer Edition artbook event.

The zine format: A5 in colour

Damo had the good idea of perhaps using artwork from the CIRCUS exhibition.
So I will give it a CIRCUS cover, but anything goes.
Please send 300dpi files (pdf, jpeg, tiff) to elida.maiques[at]gmail.com no later than next Wednesday June 21.
Really sorry for the stoopid deadline। I promise to be better next time.

100 Portraits..

Hi everyone, i see this poster in the tube everyday for this guys blog, and just got around to looking at it now. So thought i'd pass it on.

www.patricktheoptimist.org

I feel at home when the unknown surrounds me

guys,look if I dont blow my own little silver trumpet, then who, tell me who will (huh ?)
happy to report a result
This is a drawing I made for a submission call to carpaccio magazine based in Spain.The line is from a Bjork song (wanderlust) and the video is wonderful .
The theme is inspired by this line from miss Bjorks song,hence the issue will be various artists responses to same.
I see our esteemed collective member miss D. Nestors beautiful work was chosen for last months call,she is obvs much more secure than me and didnt need to tell the world :)
Anyways guys , the call for submissions is every month and it is a most imaginative publication , blog etc.
So take a look and see if it interests you .
Also , I want to propose a tinderbox drawing exhibition to be made online , ie.on our blog SOON SOON .
Simple , something inspiring , hopeful and that would bring us all together collectively.
We could put it up on a seperate flickr page or something ?
Tinderbox Top Twenty or the tinderbox heart strings collective or we are collectively moved
I know , everyone send in a line of a song that really moves them(+ a link so others can see\hear it on youtube etc)
then we can all respond to one that appeals most to us...what you think??
I hope that you are all having a good summer.(loving the new header claire of mr d. martins beautifully cut letters )
jane xx

Pegasus by Raoul Servais (1973)

The Blues (ft. Nina Persson) by PRIMARY 1

The Blues (ft. Nina Persson) by PRIMARY 1

Minjae Lee

The way he uses patterns & shapes combined with figures reminds me of Klimt a bit. See more here.

Patrick Boivin

Patrick Boivin makes some cool stop motion animations using toys & action figures, like this one...



He also has directed a funny parody of Iron Man featuring his daughter which is extremely well done...

Check out more of his stuff here.

Calico Melton

I just randomly found a link to the work of Calico Melton. I love the textures and the balance in her work. Link

Harvey and The Vuvuzelas

See what happened on Wednesday...

Harvey and The Vuvuzelas

Batmanomatopaiea!

Someone has put together a gallery of the sound effect images from the 60s Batman tv show that would pop up whenever they punched someone. Some of the lettering & colours are actually pretty cool!

Germaine Richier

I recently discovered Germaine Richier at the Musée Fabre in Montpellier.  I was instantly intrigued by her work and I thought her antropomorphic style would appeal to my fellow tinderboxers.

www.germaine--richier.com

Wikipedia notes

Further reading [download PDF]

Gasiorowski

GASIOROWSKI at Carré d'Art in Nîmes

We went to this exhibition last week in Nîmes. The format of this retrospective show was non-choronological. This meant that work from Gasiorowski's hyper-realist period was hung beside paint daubed postcards of his later career. The show was really engaging and I felt I had an insight into the artist's personality.

"Throughout his career, Gérard Gasiorowski came out as an outspoken advocate of contradiction, viewed in terms of constructive opposition rather than impossibility. This is a key feature of his practice and of his personality, whereby he moves from hyperrealist figuration to abstraction or fiction, from virtuosity to the daub, while exercising irreverence or homage, gravity and the most biting irony, excess or asceticism."

Slideshow

If you could have any artist do a portrait of you, who would you pick?

Made me think...

new work

hi y'all
heres a little offering to the altar of melancholy and folly.
I hope you are all feeling swell and hopeful .
I saw two linnets today whilst out on my bike , and my roses are growing and I had home made sausages under an overcast sky.