Tuesday, December 28, 2010

Charley Harper's

Peekaboo Forest

interactive illustrations in an app created for kids


Created by Night & Day Studios, the app—available for the iPhone and the Android—continues their series, which began with Peekaboo Barn and was followed by Peekaboo Wild. A fourth application called Peekaboo Fridge, currently in production, will feature the artwork of Richard Scarry, and another called "Tree of Life" and also featuring Charley Harper's imagery is also in the works. Peekaboo Forest sells for $2 from iTunes


Wednesday, December 15, 2010

Salley Mavor


(above illustration by QUENTIN BLAKE)


The House of Illustration is delighted to be working with Sotheby’s for their forthcoming exhibition and auction of English Literature, History, Children’s Books and Illustrations. Some 28 original drawings have been donated by some of the greatest illustrators of our time. Works by Quentin Blake, Raymond Briggs, Jan Pienkowski, Axel Scheffler, Ronald Searle, Nick Park,...



John Coulter said...

i was inspired by this poster. Check it out:
http://johncoulter.blogspot.com/2009/10/terrible-yellow-eyes.html

Monday, December 13, 2010

jpeg from endo.over-blog.com



Letter from simple-pretty.com

This was one of my father’s cards. He designed this with colored tissue paper, I believe. This was one of his favorite ways of designing.

My father, Walter Erhard also designed 50% of all Vera scarves and textiles, though never receiving proper credit for his work as he could never put his name on any of it.

He designed greeting cards in addition to the work he did with Vera. As well, he did children’s books, and was a painter. We have many of his paintings if anyone is interested in learning more about those.

He also loved gardening and spent many hours nurturing his plants, many of which he either grew from seed or planted as seedlings.

He was a beautiful person and a real humanitarian. Sadly he left this world in 2005, and my mother, Elfriede, a talented musician, just 2 years after that. He is survived by me, his daughter, and his son Paul Erhard, who lives in Colorado. Both of us are professional musicians. My father actually had said that he wanted to be a violinist when he was very young, but because there wasn’t enough money to pay for lessons, he took up drawing instead!

Later he learned to play the piano on his own.

I’m happy to hear from anyone interested in learning more about my father and his work.

You can reach me at iwavemusic@aol.com

Lisa Erhard



Saturday, December 04, 2010