http://sarahatlee.com/wordpress Drawings, paintings, collages, and notes from the art world. Wed, 06 Aug 2008 13:11:06 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en This is my entry for the BookMooch Journal "A Hunka Hunka Burnin' Love." Lyle Lovett, ink on paper, 2008. Click image to see full-size. I'm really enjoying this marker sketch process. They're either cheap markers or old markers, so in either case they dry out quickly. That gives me an opportunity to ... http://sarahatlee.com/wordpress/2008/08/lyle-lovett-portrait-illustration/ (Thank you, Drawn!) Friends, I've just seen something, and you should see it too. Do you know the feeling that rises, when you're reading or watching or hearing something, and your sense of time slows, your muscles fill with cooling gel, and you think, "Oh my God, this is important"? ... http://sarahatlee.com/wordpress/2008/07/ryan-animated-short-by-chris-landreth/ Let Things Be Foggy, ink on paper, July 2008. I began this sketch during my stay in Canadian, Texas over the Fourth of July holiday. I don't have any major shows planned or new projects in progress at this point, so I feel a mite bit purposeless. (It's been a long ... http://sarahatlee.com/wordpress/2008/07/illustration-friday-foggy/ Satellite Image of Aleutian Clouds, North America. Click image to view its source. Are you looking for ideas for your next thirty abstract paintings? Because NASA beat you to it. But you can go visit them at the Environmental Graffiti blog. http://sarahatlee.com/wordpress/2008/07/abstract-earth-stunning-satellite-imagery/ Untitled photograph from Flickr user Sevenshades. This photo is one of many images on Flickr with a Creative Commons license. Click image to view its source. From the creativecommons.org blog: Our good friend and new media sociologist Alek Tarkowski from CC Poland has been working hard to compile data for a new ... http://sarahatlee.com/wordpress/2008/07/survey-do-you-use-creative-commons-and-flickr/ Speaking of maps... Christoph Niemann's sons give helpful directions to a stranger. Here is a delightfully illustrated story in the New York Times about two little boys and their love for the MTA. An excellent example of using symbols as visual language, the perfect mix between pictures and words. You can ... http://sarahatlee.com/wordpress/2008/07/boys-who-love-the-subway/ Watching the Growth of Wal-Mart across America - click here. I love how the map background color is Necrosis Black and the little store-spores are A Pox On Ye Green. Enticing. I also love maps. http://sarahatlee.com/wordpress/2008/07/map-showing-the-growth-of-wal-mart-across-america/ Coop killing his devil. Click image to visit its source. Paintblogger and pop-culture powerhouse Coop recently published his thoughts about a runaway image. He painted it, he sold it, and the durn thing grew legs and ran away to live its own life. (One never knows what's going to take hold ... http://sarahatlee.com/wordpress/2008/06/mystery-solved-its-nagel/ Recently on PostSecret I saw this video promoting the current exhibit at the American Visionary Art Museum: Link to the All Faiths Beautiful Flickr set. From a Washington Post review of the All Faiths Beautiful show: Outsider artists are presumed to create out of some pure inner vision and not in response to ... http://sarahatlee.com/wordpress/2008/06/all-faiths-beautiful/ (Mommy, why did the lelephant take his clothes off?) The above photo is from the new web-based exhibit Picturing The Museum from the American Museum of Natural History Research Library. This came to me via Morbid Anatomy. Can I just say? Those men are cleaning an elephant skin. With no elephant inside. ... http://sarahatlee.com/wordpress/2008/06/picturing-the-museum-photography-exhibit/