Falling In Love With Art: Part 6

Anime' Delights!

This week I am going to highlight a young woman I met before we moved.  She has an amazing talent for drawing not only by hand, but using a computer.  Her name is Karsha and she has a blog and a Deviant Art account.   

Her love of art began at a young age, although she was discouraged after being told her art was ugly.  She didn't really enjoy drawing much after that, until she was about 14 and learned about anime.  Karsha felt that she needed to write a book with art and that ignited a new passion within her, for drawing.  She finds her inspiration through many things, God being her number one, the sky, people, music and other anime artists.  As you will see, it really shows in her art.  Enjoy and feel free to visit Karsha and check out her art. 

She truly has a heart for others.

I love the cool backgrounds she adds to her art.

She does pictures of people she knows, this one she did of my son and his girlfriend.

I thought it appropriate to couple Karsha's beautiful anime with the amazing works of Hayao Miyazaki.  

As I've mentioned before, I not only love his artistic style, but his creative and whimsical story telling, as well.  To see the world through his eyes is absolutely fascinating.  If you've not ever seen one of his movies, I highly recommend you do.

Hayao is a manga artist, an animator and a film director.  His father was director of Miyazaki Airplane, which made rudders for fighter planes during WWII.  This is where Hayao began drawing airplanes and developed his fascination for aviation, which is a huge part of his movies.  You can look him up, to find a list of his works.  

My Neighbor Totoro...I like watching this one in Japanese. 

Howl's Moving Castle, great movie based on a book by the same name, by Diana Wynne Jones.
Great book too.

Spirited Away.  Interesting story, love it.

Hayao Miyazaki

Love the dimples, he looks so happy! 

Howl's Moving Castle

Kiki's Delivery Service (one of my all time faves)

Castle in the Sky

Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind  (love the flying machines)

My Neighbor Totoro 

I had to add this, so you could see the original sketch.  Awesome!!

I have to add, that if you are at all a romantic,
then Whisper of the Heart would be a great movie for you to check out.
There are many others that I didn't mention, watch them all if you get a chance.
They're like magic!!

Hope you are enjoying this beautiful week.  

Silent Sundays: Zombies and Such

I love this video and the song is so fun and catchy.  I hope you enjoy it, as well.

A peek into our Halloween....

Ready for tricks or treats.

Some of the gorgeous Fall colors.

 Have a very lovely Sunday!!  Happy November!

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A painting I did yesterday morning.  Inspired by true events.  :)

Have a lovely day!!

Falling In Love With Art: Part 5, Happy Halloween!

Happy Halloween, dear friends.   

In the spirit of this Halloween day, here are some fun pictures for you to enjoy.

Edvard Munch

Arthur Rackham

Brom

Hayao Miyazaki

Joseph Mugnaini

Matthew Kirscht

Norman Rockwell

Rado Javor

Will Moses

Tim Burton

My kids, pumpkin carving artists.


"The wind came by. It rocked all the dark smoking pumpkins on the vast and beautiful Halloween Tree.
The wind seized a thousand dark leaves and blew them away up over the sky and down over the earth toward the sun that must surely rise.
Like the town, the Tree turned off its embered smiles and slept.
At two in the morning, the wind came back for more leaves."
The Halloween Tree by Ray Bradbury

Happy Haunting! 

New Things and The Sketchbook Project 2012.

I've been drawing a lot recently.  Some doodling, some actual drawings and painting or playing with inks.  Here a few things I've been working on or playing with.  In the spirit of the season.  

Playing with illustrator inks. 

Not quite finished with this one.

A random doodle, not sure where this came from.

A painting I'm working on, not quite finished yet.  This is actually inspired by a poem,
which I will share once I complete the painting.

A picture I did the other day, I like this one. 

Also, I joined a cool project called The Sketchbook Project.  I think it will be fun to do and if you're interested in joining, the deadline I believe is October 31, although they may have moved it to November 2nd.  Either way, it's pretty cool and if you'd like to do something fun and get your art work out into the world, then this would be a great way to do it.  I apologize for getting this info. out so late.  

Cheers!!  Have a bloody fantastic weekend, my friends!  :)

Falling In Love With Art: Part 4

A Gorey Dali...

This week I was busy and out of town, so I'm not as organized as I'd hoped to be.

With Halloween coming up next week, I thought I'd highlight two artists that have a bit more macabre style.  Both of these artists have inspired me over the years, with their very interesting perspectives.  

Edward Gorey was an illustrator, writer, an amazing artist.  His style and sense of humor was a bit twisted, which is what I love about him.  I first fell in love with his art when I would watch the PBS Mystery Theatre.

He wrote and illustrated over 100 books.  He was brilliant and very talented.

“Life is intrinsically, well, boring and dangerous at the same time. At any given moment the floor may open up. Of course, it almost never does; that's what makes it so boring. ”
― Edward Gorey

Salvador Dali:  Was multi-talented in painting,drawing, photography, sculpture, writing and film.  His art work was interesting, surreal, bizarre, beautiful...I could go on, but instead I will just show you.

I have always loved this picture, as I'm sure many others do too.  Melting clocks, very cool.

A sample of his brilliance.

He was also great with optical illusions.  

I happened upon his art when I was about 15 years old and fell in love with his bizarre style.  It was very inspiring to see someone who could truly think outside the box.  

Thank you for popping by.  Have a happy week!