Just wanted everyone to know I’ve totally redesigned both my graphic design/editorial illustration site: www.graphx.us and my fine art site: www.norathompson.us. I was hoping to make both of them a little more classy than they had been, so I created the pages in Flash and dropped them in a main page I created in Dreamweaver. And, although it’s been up …
Giraffe polo
Here’s a sketch I did between teaching classes yesterday. I had the thumbnail for this drawn over a year ago, but was afraid it wouldn’t work and never pursued the idea. Looking for more portfolio pieces for the fall SCBWI conference made me revisit some old sketchbook ideas, and after I came across this one again I decided to give …
Images 2008
Over at the Central Pennsylvania Festival of the Arts at State College, I had a painting accepted into their annual exhibit, this year called, “Images 2008.” The painting is titled, “Scream Without Raising Your Voice,” an acrylic and mixed media on canvas. The show ran June 11-July 13.
New York at Night
When we arrived in NY in April, it was late on a Sunday evening.We took a cab straight from Penn Station to our hotel,and these were my first impressions of the city.
2008 Westmoreland Art Nationals
I had a Polaroid emulsion transfer accepted into this year’s Westmoreland Art Nationals. It’s actually four transfers together on one piece of watercolor paper. I didn’t do many of these; at the time I was just experimenting with the process and had access to a Daylab Copy System. I had done direct Polaroid image transfers a few years back using …
The Golden Penn
The nice people who write and edit the Western Pennsylvania Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators quarterly newsletter (called The Golden Penn) have chosen my artwork to fill the current issue. Sorry, no link directly to the newsletter, so I guess you’ll just have to take my word for it (you kind of have to pay for it, so …
Ohiopyle Weddings
I’ve finished my first entirely Flash Web site for Ohiopyle Weddings. I still have way too many things I want to do, but don’t know the ActionScript to do them, and don’t know the correct terminology to be able to search for the scripting on the Internet. Still, it’s functional and basically attractive, and best of all, approved by the …
Ben
This is Ben. He’s a quick pastel I did while visiting friends yesterday afternoon.
Westmoreland Biennial
This image was accepted into the Westmoreland Biennial which ran from May 11 through June 8. The exhibit included 83 works of art from 80 different artists who lived within a 125-mile radius of Greensburg, Pennsylvania. The image is called “Murder of Crows,” it’s a 16″x20″ acrylic on canvas. The handwritten text in the background is partially painted over, but …
Jeeraffe
So we did a SketchCrawl at the Pittsburgh Zoo a couple weeks back. I didn’t get a lot of drawing done, but I did learn some things, mostly about myself. Things I learned from the SketchCrawl at the zoo: The animals at the zoo tend to turn their butts toward you when they realize you’re trying to draw them. It’s …
Up on eBay!
I’ve listed my first item on eBay. It’s a small chalkboard, hand-built from stoneware clay with a fabric eraser and using hemp as hanging material. It’s one of my fine art pieces, and is inspired by indigenous creations and natural materials.
The Raw Shark Texts
So. I know I’m late. I finally got around to reading The Raw Shark Texts by Steven Hall, and if I’m writing about it on my blog, you should understand that means something. The book takes bites from The Matrix, Memento and Jaws. The DaVinci Code should probably be thrown in there as well, except that Hall doesn’t telegraph his passes (as my high …