Brian Cook’s take on Twitter gave me a smile this morning.
Tag: animal
Dr. Knowgood-Lion’s Pride
Fun animation from Arnold Zwanenburg.
Patti Haskins
Talented Dallas artist and friend Patti Haskins has a great gift for character design and color combinations, witnessed above by “Buster,” one of her many creations. Be sure and check out her Etsy shop for loads of perfect holiday gifts.
Guido Mocafico
Indiana Jones would hate Guideo Mocafico’s work.
Gregthings
Wonderful line and brush work from Greg over at Gregthings.
Wilkintie
Whimsically fun set of letterpress prints from Australian creative Wilkintie.
Monkey! Leather Paperweights
Monkey! leather paperweights have just been added to the Etsy shop. Measures approx. 3.5″ square with brown leather on front side and hot stamped smokin’ monkey graphic. Reverse side is black leather with embossed pattern. Perfect for home or the office. Anchor your important papers, documents and banana peels with style.
Visit the “Monkey” section here for more info.
Sam Wolfe Connelly
Sam Wolfe Connelly’s work leaves me wanting to know more about the mysterious scenes he creates.
Pigeon Post
Wonderful collection of holiday images from Pigeon Post capturing the old world folk tale spirit.
Sam Bosma
Sam Bosma’s work combines a graphic approach with nice compositions, colors and and extra dose of fun imagination.
Shuichi Nakano
Artist Shuichi Nakano’s series of paintings place giant animals among the buildings of urban Japan.
Literary Pets Calendar
Half Price Books has just released their official 2011 calendar in stores and online, featuring 12 of the Literary Pet portraits.
Quizzical Look
Characters from a selection of the Literary and Artistic Pets have been combined to make a new fun quiz on Sporcle, a site chock full of memory testing, trivia inducing fun.
A big thanks goes out to Dave Hejmanowski for putting the quiz together.
Literary Pets
Think you know your famous literature? Take the “Literary Pets” quiz!
(Answers below)
- What author was famed for creating the epic struggle between Captain A. Lab and “Moby Poodle,” the great white lap dog?
- This writer’s play, “Pugmalion,” was later musically adapted to “My Fair Labradoodle.”
- Considered one of the greatest authors of fantasy and science fiction, this writer is known for such classics as “The Illustrated Dog” and “Something Wagging This Way Comes.”
- Famed author of “Fancy Feast at Tiffany’s” and was a childhood friend of Harpurr Lee.
Learn more about these author’s lives and great works included in the entire set of 24 cards titled Literary Pets 2, the second volume of famous literary luminaries as cats and dogs. Each card measures 2 1/4″ x 4″ on sturdy 14 pt.cover stock and presents a full color portrait on one side with biographical information on the reverse. Card sets and individual signed portrait prints available in the Etsy shop.
Click here for more info and to shop.
Answers to the quiz:
1.Bloodhound author of dark romanticism, Herman Smellville 2. George St. Bernard Shaw 3. Stray Bradbury 4. Truman Catpote
Monkey Monday-Big in Japan
Next month the International Primatological Society will convene in Kyoto, Japan for their 23rd Congress. ChetArt’s monkey business will be a part of the festivities, thanks to the efforts of Laura Marsh. I met Laura last month in San Diego during our Comic-Con event. She runs the comic shop and gallery True Believers in Santa Fe and is also a director of the Global Conservation Institute. As a participate in next month’s Primatological Congress, she will be a presenting a symposium and teaching a pre-congress course. Perhaps most importantly, she’ll be exposing her colleagues to a variety of my monkey personalities in the form of Sinister Simian and Steampunk Monkey buttons that she purchased to re-sell while she’s there. Perhaps this will spark the idea for a future lecture on the migratory habits of evil, death ray wielding, megalomaniac chimps. Stay tuned…
(Above portrait from the beautiful and fascinating photo series by James Mollison.)
AJ Fosik
AJ Fosik’s wood sculptures and richly detailed and visually arresting. See more of his work and an interview here.
Jason Tennant
I enjoyed recently discovering the work of Jason Tennant, an artist who recycles the old remains of American chestnut trees into animated animal sculptures.
Ray-Mel Cornelius
Ray-Mel’s work always offers up a rich serving of color and texture that is immediately and distinctively recognizable. He creates magical landscapes that speak of folk tales and fables, Southwestern wildlife and a special focus on roosters with stunning colors and plumage. Ray-Mel is like the fellow that showed up on the Ed Sullivan show from time to time who would deftly spin several plates on top of sticks. With his focus on illustration, teaching and fine art, he keeps them all spinning smoothly. Be sure to visit his blog as well for recent projects.