InkTober Day 15

InkTober 

Day 15

"Legend"

Happy Birthday to Me

 

That's right Sunday June 16th is my Birthday!

So I made myself a card.

 

 

Also if you live in or around NYC go see the

Maurice Sendak

exhibit at 

The Society of Illustrators

I was there last night and plan to revisit.

June 11th - August 17th

    

Happy Birthday Mr. Sendak

Happy Birthday Maurice Sendak!

 

Yesterday June 10th was Mr. Sendak's Birthday he would of been 85 yesterday.

 

One of the things I find funny is; (and this just happened the other day).

 

Me: Society of Illustrators is having an exhibit on Maurice Sendak

 

Her: Who?

 

Me: the guy who wrote and illustrated “Where the Wild Things Are”

 

  Her: Oh! Cool…

 

I will never know everything about this man, I find things out from one interview or another I even run into a book I never knew he illustrated like “How Little Lori Visited Times Square”.

Even this little gem that he illustrated the Velveteen Rabbit can’t find that one on the book shelves.  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

But it must of been hard to be judged by one book, and it must have been great all at the same time.

I wonder if Mo Willems is having the same problem “Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus!”

 is a good book, after that well… 

  

Anyway I am looking forward to see Mr. Sendak art on exhibit the last time I saw his artwork was several years ago during the release of the movie “Where the Wild Things Are”

at The Morgan Library that was truly magical for me.

(I may be going to the Friday June 14 reception is anyone else going?) 

Maurice Sendak, 1928-2012

Maurice Sendak

1928-2012 

"I didn't sleep with famous people or movie stars or anything like that. It's a common story: Brooklyn boy grows up and succeeds in his profession, period," he told the AP.

Mr. Sendak, died early Tuesday in Danbury, Conn., at age 83,
four days after suffering a stroke.

I could type out a bunch of words about this man but I would not do him justice.

Those who know me or have taken the time to read my past post know I have mentioned Mr. Sendak many times. He is an inspiration to me and a loss to the publishing world 

I found this post from it gives a good overview of his life I decided to just put up a handful of illustrations from varies books he illustrated:

Maurice Sendak, 1928-2012:| The Portland Press Herald
New York Times
"The Colbert Report" very funny!

He kind of looks like his character's

The Nutcracker

Who could forget Mikhail Baryshnikov performing the Nutcracker?
When I was growing up it seemed to be on PBS every year around this time.

Who could forget my cousin Diana Ferrante performing at Lincoln Center as a Sugarplum or as one of the rats? (Depending on the year ) I hold those memories close to my heart; it is exciting to be able to pick out someone you know and love who is wearing a rat costume.

Diana (left) not from The Nutcracker

In addition, keeping with my fondness for Maurice Sendak his illustrations from "The Nutcracker" are just wonderful to look at and study.
I do not scan my own books because I do not want to break the spine so I have surf the web to share some of the better images I could find from this book.

(They are not in any particular order)

During the Holidays

I have been spending a lot of time trying to get my computer up and running this last month and I think I have narrowed down the problem. So I am hoping this will end very soon, it has been a month since I started to have problems so I think I am done.

However, since I have spent too much time on this, I have spent very little time on my artwork. Therefore, I thought to share more Norman Rockwell illustrations keeping with the holiday theme.As much as I can appreciate Mr. Rockwell sense of humor, composition, and his use of color. It does not hold the same passion for me unlike Maurice Sendak, so I never spent much time learning more about him or his work. However, in the last year I came across a link and enjoyed reading about him.

       Links about Mr. Rockwell's work called "Behind the Camera” posted in the New York Times or Brooklyn Museum "Behind the Camera” it shows how he created his work something I did not know myself until I read the article.

Norman Rockwell

A moving interview

A moving interview with one of the most important people I will most likely will never meet.
NPR Fresh Air's
Terry Gross

interviews

Maurice Sendak
 about his life and his newest picture book
“Bumble-Ardy”
Shhh & listen

"The Pig Wants To Party"

 (I am a little choked up)  

I always learn something new from this man.  

Mr. Sendak you will most likely never read this but I wanted to say
 *Thank You!*
 for being in my life.