Book Purchases This Past Tuesday!!

posted by: jerry

While at Barnes and Noble, I pick up this book, Drawing From Life: The Journal As Art.  It just a book that explores the sketchbook of several artists.    The amount of thought within the pages of their submission is completely inspiring.  Technical prowess is not an issue as the thinking process is what is point of this collection.

Google: Drawing From Life: The Journal As Art - project compiled by Jennifer New. Good purchase.

The second purchase was discovered by my sister, almost at the same time I found the previous book.  This one, "1000 Artist Journal Pages"  which is similar in concept to Jennifer New's book.  This is just a collection of many artists contributions.   Equally as beautiful.

So in honor of the sketchbook exchange project, buy/borrow/check out these books.

Post-Christmas Fun Tidbits

posted by ADRIENNE

I have been busy for a while and have a few things to share so bear with me. 

Firstly, I got two great books today with a giftcard I got for Christmas.  

An Illustrated Life by Danny Gregory

(tagline states: "drawing inspiration from the private sketchbooks of artists, illustrators, and designers") 

You can watch a video about it here.

Its pretty cool, featuring everyone from James Jean to Stefan Sagmeister. Each artist speaks about their way of journaling their thoughts and what brand sketchbooks they use/what pen brands/what watercolors/etc. Very inspirational.

AND

Hand Job: A Catalog of Type by Michael Perry

Showcases a gajillion (yes a gajillion) examples of hand rendered type. Actually alot of Sagmeister Inc. work in there too. . .of course. Visual Overload. 

These should all be quite handy since a few of us are working on a neato sketchbook project and I'm working on drawing/collages myself. 

Speaking of, here are a couple images of things I have been haphazardly working on. I told Ann I would put them up. I feel like I am WILLING new work to come out of me, albeit slowly. 

(Frogman's is my deadline, I have to have plenty of new work by then.)

 Counting the Times, collage, gouache, graphite, thread, 2008

Back Then I Was Too Young To See, collage, thread, graphite, colored pencil, 2008 

My handmade-letterpressed christmas card

Last, but not least, Brad and I are trying to get an Etsy store up and running to get rid of all the mounds of old work that we both have laying around. There will be tons of letterpress/printmaking/photo paraphenelia to buy cheap! Check on us periodically and see what we are up to: http://theclearancesale.etsy.com

Hope everyone has a grand New Years and celebrates the opening of 2009 appropriately. I'll be in Louisville celebrating and attending Betsy's wedding most of the week, so if you're around that area give me a call.  For Auld Land Syne, everybody!

Vegetable 01a

posted by: jerry




drew some more and did a tag team with a mysterious guest.

don't forget the veggies

posted by: jerry

celery stick, mushrrooms, notes, math, and.....ribbon? hm.

asked the students in my drawing class what i should draw in the sketchbook. this is what we came up with.

Sketchbook Exchange Project

POSTED BY: JERRY

BOOK: Animal


Here's the first entry in the animal book for this project.

なんですか。(nan desu ka?), 2008
Jerry Phillips
graphite
book: animal

I drew this while on a plane to japan this august, continued in a mall while a little kid yelled at me, "Nan desu ka?!" - it's kind of like saying, "what is that?"

this kid was brat, but his mom spoke some English and apologized.