Tom & James Draw

Tom & James Draw (which is a tumblr blog that you should follow) is the beau­ti­ful col­lab­o­ra­tive art project between James Gulliver Hancock and his brother Tom, who was born with Down’s Syndrome. Their work is gor­geous — lay­ered, col­or­ful and fas­ci­nat­ing. Here’s more:

Their col­lab­o­ra­tion is unique as they are shar­ing expe­ri­ences between the out­sider and “insider” art world. James iden­ti­fies with Toms abstract use of visual cod­ing and Tom builds around James’ skilled and con­fi­dent mark mak­ing. Tom relaxes James’ tech­ni­cal obses­sions, and James enables Tom’s con­cen­tra­tion and play­ful mark­mak­ing. Together they make worlds of expe­ri­ence, encom­pass­ing peo­ple around them and their actions, ani­mals, plants, engines, and some­times hilar­i­ous nods to the human expe­ri­ence and perception.

Both of them are inter­ested in obses­sion, both within mark mak­ing and the role obses­sion plays with per­cep­tion and life in general.

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Sesame Street illustrated by Glen Brogan :: via albinoraven7.blogspot.ca

the overlapping layers on this are so clever! Its a beautiful colour pallet and its adorable. I might have a go at trying some more of this computer stuff over the summer!

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sandra dieckmann

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I got bored of organising my portfolio and i started to look through all my books so here is my all time favourite cook book, this is to do with illustration too! 

I forgot how much i loved just looking at this book! Franco Lagattolla ran La Trattoria Terrazza in London with Mario Cassandro. He wrote and illustrated this book! 

For all you food lovers out there, or even if you just want a book to look at, i would recommend this one! The quirky, funny illustrations enhance the book and makes it fun to read. His simple style suits the whole look of the book. Just reading the recipes makes me hungry! 

HAHAHA a cat as a waiter!

Most of the illustrations looks if they could have been pulled from a comedy sketch, they take the mickey out of themselves and have a good sense of humour about it. On this page Franco talks about Sammy Davis Jnr and Frank Sinatra coming to his restaurant. 

Honestly i could just look through this book for hours just getting hungrier and admiring the beautiful line drawings. This is also a good place to learn some Italian from! 

I find the human characters most humorous with their characterful faces which show the stereotype of an italian chef! 

I have way too many scans from this book but i just couldn’t decide on which images to pick from. 

Those of you that have heard me talk about Pasta E Patate (pasta with potatoes) this is the book that the recipe is from! I would recommend this book to everyone. Not only is the food delicious but the illustration and writing is humorous and light hearted. 

LOVELY! now back to the portfolio.

Swan Lake by Ping Zhu

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My beautiful street so far! started to finally draw my hercules’ for each section but i have a feeling that this won’t fold properly. It may just have to be a really long image. oh well! learnt from my mistakes! Going to pick out some stock tomorrow, which will take me about an hour! 

I’ve just realised how much cat related stuff i have on my computer. I think i have a problem. 

Some of my final houses.. gonna do them in stages and reduce the size down to fit it on to the size i want. still got so much to do. Ive now done 6 houses in 5 days. Definitely going to be crying by due date.

hey hey hey hercules has arrived… well half of him. I think I’m getting better at using the computer. Now to start actually doing the real thing. I may cry for how much work i have to do.

having a go at computer houses. i need to do some more work but its so hard when I’m home an i can see all my old friends.

“Peter Pan” book cover design by Katie Harnett

This is lovely. The texture of the brush marks are lovely and the whole colour scheme is lovely. 

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