Drawn! The Illustration and Cartooning Blog

Brian Biggs is easily one of my favourite children’s illustrators and I’ve been eagerly following his forays into screen printing (snagging a swell robot print along the way), so his most recent blog post is a real treat.

Brian shares a bit of his process, and walks us through the steps it took for him to take this:

…and turn it into this:

Eleanor Grosch is a Philadelphia illustrator and printmaker with a habit of drawing animals, and gorgeously. Like a lot of artists, my world changed when I discovered Charley Harper, but Grosch seems to be his second incarnation. Her rock posters and licensed products are great, but it’s her art prints that I’m truly in love with. Her Aesop’s Fables series is a particular favorite.

(for my old home of Minnesota)

(for my new home in the Palouse)

I’m so pleased to have snagged a copy of The Bento Bestiary, a hand-screened booklet by Ben Newman and Scott James Donaldson. Limited to just 100 copies, the book celebrates yokai, monsters of Japanese folklore, in beautiful 3-colour geometric designs. There are a few copies left, so act fast if this sort of thing is up your alley.

One of my favourite books this year has to be The Night Life of Trees. The book is a series of silkscreened illustrations (some nice photos here) of lushly patterned plants and animals accompanied by short mythical poetry and prose.

The illustrations are by three artists from the Gond tribe of India. Limited to a print-run of 1000, each page is effectively a beautiful limited-edition silkscreen print.

Here’s a video that shows the process. The subtitles are small, but the images are self-explanatory.

Flight of the Mermaid – another beautiful book from Bhajju Shyam
More work by Bhajju Shyam