memoirs on a rainy day

Christian Ward is a beautiful illustrator. Check out his portfolio.

Here are the pieces that I worked on last night for about 45 minutes. It felt good to do this amidst the craziness of the end of term.

Continue reading ‘Numerical Analysis Art’

Awesome moleskine art by Laure Volume. (via moleskinerie)

Incredible portfolios from incredible artists.

Turns out that it was all a fake. (This is what I’m talking about)

Banksy strikes again with his biggest London mural right underneath a CCTV camera! (via TomHawk)

Here are a few new moleskine blogs that I’ve started reading:

Unstringing the Bow Tim Schuman’s blog
Mattias Inks Mattias A’s blog
Diburros Marcelo Braga’s blog
‘Skine Art features new notebook art from different artists

I was messing around with a paint brush and ink a few weeks ago and this was the result. I have been researching ways to do some calligraphy. After a few experiments, I decided on using ink dip pens as they get the best result. I’ve seen some typographers and calligraphers working with brushes, but they are hard to use. It will take a lot of practice.

This piece actually turned out to be a short poem. Click the image about to read or read it below.

The weight of the world lay on his shoulders, but he could not tell.
Like the abyss that spawned him, his heart of hearts told him different.
What could be said?
What could be done?
No one could tell.

It crushed him slowly into pieces.
The gaps became larger.
No one knew if he could ever be put back together

Things would always fall apart.

Check out this really cool fake biography done in a moleskine about Chuck Lizardtown. Click on the image to read.

Banksy painted new art on Essex Road. The sketch for the street painting fetched 195000£.