Category: Inspiration

  • Peter Kuper

    I am trying to bring myself back to the smiley face. We desperately need to have artists who will tell us about the world, to describe the beautiful world we live in and try to give hope. Be kind and be positive. We live in an inspiring world. Peter Kuper is an American illustrator and cartoonist.…

  • Cambridge writers

    Experiments with illustrating: Historical sources on Cambridge: http://www.localhistories.org/cambridge.html Literary sources on Cambridge: Virginia Woolf: A Room of One’s Own http://seas3.elte.hu/coursematerial/PikliNatalia/Virginia_Woolf_-_A_Room_of_Ones_Own.pdf Rupert Brooke: ‘The Old Vicarage, Grantchester’ (1912) Text: https://www.bartleby.com/232/701.html and go  to Rupert Brooke Museum in The Orchard Tea Garden ) In terms of style and technique I will focus on ink, watercolour and gouache. Saying Goodbye to Cambridge…

  • John tordoff

    www.facebook.com/100005933112042/posts/1126412774233149

  • John tordoff sketchbook

    www.facebook.com/100005933112042/posts/1130585617149198

  • John tordoff concertina sketch

    www.facebook.com/groups/uskcambridge/permalink/2347278702224760

  • Cambridge Inspiration

    Cambridge has a very vibrant artist community with annual Cambridge Open Studios and flourishing urban sketcher’s group with blogspot and Facebook page with photo gallery. There is also a tourist market with a number of art galleries selling original, print and also cards, some of are images of Cambridge. Cambridge Contemporary Art with on-line gallery of…

  • House of Illustration

    Amy Higgins http://www.amyhiggins.co.uk/ http://alezeiafv.tictail.com/ http://www.anuskaallepuz.com/El-nino-que-llego-con-la-niebla

  • David Shrigley

    http://davidshrigley.com/category/drawing-painting/ Examples of his cartoon animations Talking about his work Guardian article

  • Anna Boghiguian

    This is the first major UK exhibition devoted to Anna Boghiguian (born 1946, Cairo, Egypt). First organised by Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, it brings together notebooks, drawings, paintings, photographs, sculptures and large-scale installations, including a new work made for Tate St Ives. Books have been central to Boghiguian’s work since the 1980s, from…

  • Chris Ware

    Chris Ware has been an important influence on the way I look at issues of image, text and narrative, and the possibilities of non-linear approaches. Edited from Wikipedia Franklin Christenson “Chris” Ware (born December 28, 1967), is an American cartoonist. His works explore themes of social isolation, emotional torment and depression. He tends to use a…