and so should you

Starfruit woke up and change from old style.

Dessins aux feutres CMJN & affiche che de Michel Quarez.
"À 60 ans, il est humain de vouloir capitaliser le travail de sa vie passée, en songeant mollement à laisser sa place aux plus jeunes. Fin des 50's, début des 60's, aux Beaux-Arts de Bordeaux ; à Paris aux Arts Décos, puis à Varsovie chez Tomaszewski, mon rêve d'adolescent, faire des affiches comme Savignac, se lestait du principe de réalité de la peinture : Matisse, Picasso. Stérilisant. La photo est là, image projetée, pour étudier le réel.
80's. Le langage. Barthes : "je me méfie de tout code qui refuse de s'avouer comme tel." Le référent n'est plus pour moi que la main tendue au spectateur, l'impureté nécessaire pour éviter le décoratif.
Le langage : amener le signe à l'évidence de la signalétique des autoroutes. Dans la caricature, Reiser a fait du trait le sismographe de ses pulsions au même titre que Michaux dans ses dessins mescaliniens.
La figure humaine est toujours à réinventer.nLe stéréotype comme référent. Avoir à faire, dans la rue, avec un large public, c'est avec plus intelligent que soi." Michel Quarez

drawing in Illustrator CS3. No live trace. I just used pencil and brush tools.

A whole range of penguin art available to buy as postage stamps, greeting cards, posters, mugs, t-shirts and more!

If you're not a penguin fan then don't feel left out, how about Santa as he's never been seen before or a clown... how about a surfing pig? These and so much more are all available at Ray's Zazzle Gallery.

Available at RedBubble

An original character illustration made with Adobe Fireworks. © Copyright 2008 Vincent Low Y H, All Rights Reserved.

selling for $4, shipping included. i accept paypal to ramseybeyer at gmail dot com or well-concealed cash. send a message to the same e-mail address to receive my mailing address.

sample spreads

if you'd like to buy a print along with it, you can buy a zine and print package for $15! all prints are 8.5x11 and are printed on archival matte paper with epson archival inks

choice of prints

Black and White,
Image size: approx 11 x 8.5"
Paper size: 11" x 8.5"
Original materials: pen and ink, paper

Color,
Image size: approx 11 x 7.5"
Paper size: 11" x 8.5"
Original materials: pen and ink, paper, digital color in Photoshop

Black and White,
Image size: approx 6 x 7"
Paper size: 8.5" x 11"
Original materials: pen and ink, paper

this zine was mostly done as a self-fundraiser for a large vet bill i have for my cat who had to go to the e.r.! stella's better now but my credit card isn't =0(
i also started an etsy for the same reason. feel free to check it out. you can buy the zine or color prints of my illustrations on there as well. http://everydaypants.etsy.com

His style reminds me a lot of Marcel Dzama's drawings—only simpler, lighter... less definitive. I hope his stay in Japan inspires him to make more work!

And this is the stream of consciousness!

This might be the pond where I threw my keys, from which I caught three fishes.

Pixel swims into so many of my pictures.  Here he is all colored with crayon.  He usually lives and swims in this painting.  "Il faut refaire la meme chose, dix fois, cents fois ...." Degas said.  I took it very much to heart.  I've lost count how many times I've drawn Pixel.  ("You must redraw the same thing, ten times, a hundred times....")

[Top of the post:  Pixel with Colors, by Aletha Kuschan, pencil and crayon]

This is just an ordinary cat, attracted here perhaps because of all the fish.  The fish had better watch out!

[Top of the post:  Drawing of a Cat, by Aletha Kuschan, pencil]

I had a dream of three fish once.  I had driven a long way on the highway to a large building with a tall wall with no windows.  It was beside a pond.  And I got out of my car and unaccountably threw my keys into the pond!

Realizing I wouldn't be able to drive my car further, I rushed to the water's edge to fish out my keys.  I threw in a line and pulled out three bright fish that looked at me with their eyes.

[Top of the post: Drawing of Three Fish, by Aletha Kuschan, ballpoint pen]

This fish is all line and light, blue and white with a grid to keep him from leaping off the page and out of sight.  He looks at you.  The world is mostly water, you know.

[Top of the post:  Pen drawing of a Fish, by Aletha Kuschan, ballpoint pen]

A very pencil-y fish here, where lines wiggle like waves of motion in the stream of ideas.  This one has lovely dots, too.  When my daughter was a baby and got her first lessons in art, they consisted of me dotting a paper over which she crawled, which I did while saying, "dot, dot, dot, dot" as I watched her laugh and squeal with delight.

[Top of the post:  Drawing of a Fish I named Pixel, by Aletha Kuschan, pencil]

Alice the Cat drew a maze (on her favorite tool, the Magic Doodle), and it amazed everyone who looked at it. 

You start at the bottom right and finish at the upper left.  (I think you're supposed to print it out and color it too -- if you choose -- if it pleases you -- Alice would be pleased!)

How is it that when we are amazed we get momentarily lost?  But then we find what we were looking for too, after thoughts wandered.  It is magic!

[Top of the post:  Alice's Maze, by Alice the Cat, Magic Doodle]

To make this photo, I took two collages and set them at 90 degree angles, one lying flat on the floor, the other propped on the wall, and I photographed them from the center.  The result is the dimensional blending of the two. 

The wonderful thing for artists living today is that modern technology offers up so many new avenues for getting ideas.  I take things like this and paint them.  I still pursue my thought in direct and traditional tools, but I use the new gadgets to produce ideas.

When I look at something like this, it's like trying to enter a dream.  This is my way of looking for the doorway that opens onto thought.

[Top of the post:  Two collages photographed together, by Aletha Kuschan]