"Don't grow up too quickly, lest you forget how much you love the beach." (Michelle Held)
Water-soluble colour pencils on paper
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"Don't grow up too quickly, lest you forget how much you love the beach." (Michelle Held)
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All my life I've been drawing humans (mostly women) - now I am discovering animals. So much fun. Some works-in-progress:  Sketching elephants | I am learning the anatomy - even though I have mental images of animals, when it comes to drawing them, it doesn't come as easily as the human body; I guess I don't see hundreds of elephants every day!  Gathering material for illustrations featuring children and animals - working from photos I took in this case.
"When he draws, Ungerer never uses an eraser, preferring to redraw something as often as 30 times to get it right, but without losing the spontaneity. He is rarely satisfied, and hates to look back at his work." I was delighted to read in this recent Guardian Review article that Phaidon Press is republishing Tomi Ungerer's books. He is an incredibly prolific author and illustrator. 
The illustration below is from No Kiss For Mother (1973); since I have a penchant for grumpy cats, this book is on my wish list. 
"The master in the art of living makes little distinction between his work and his play, his labor and his leisure, his mind and his body, his information and his recreation, his love and his religion. He hardly knows which is which. He simply pursues his vision of excellence at whatever he does, leaving others to decide whether he is working or playing. To him, he's always doing both."
James A Michener |
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