Aaron Leighton has a great style … makes me happy.

Very unique work by Marcelo Cipis.

STEFANO VITALE has some very nice children’s book illustrations.

Bored? Try Doodling To Keep The Brain On Task : NPR.

CHILDREN’S BOOK SHOW
This international competition is open to all art directors, editors, authors, designers and illustrators. Any published or
unpublished children’s books completed in 2008 is eligible. This year we are judging actual books, blads or F&Gs for the first time. In addition we have added new categories for young adults, educational, editorial and programming.

Our judges include senior art director David Caplan, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers; Laurent Linn, art director for Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readeres; Eleni Beja, editor for Holiday House; Elizabeth Parisi, art director for Scholastic Books and illustrators Raul Colon, Serge Bloch and Sean Qualls.

Follow these instructions to enter and pay online
First click here for our Call for Entries entry forms and fees. If you’re entering an actual book you may either pay online or download the pdf of the Call for Entries and mail it with your entries. If you wish to enter and/or pay online click here.

Entry Deadline: April 14. 2009

Artist / Illustrator PATRICK KYLE (profile) has some great new illustrations.

Fecal Face – Mollusk @Gallery Space.

Jon Trippe from Fecalface.com makes a visit to the Clayton Bros. Studio .. um AMMMMMMMAZING!!!!!!!!!!

3×3 ProShow Call for Entries – Deadline Saturday

There’s just five days until the deadline for our sixth annual illustration Proshow. If you’ve already entered please disregard this notice. If not remember there are no extensions, we must have your entries either uploaded or if you’re sending them via mail, they must be postmarked no later than Saturday, March 14.

Open to all art directors, editors, designers and illustrators. Categories include: Advertising, Animation, Books, Editorial, Fashion, Gallery, Institutional, Medical, Self-Promotion, Sequential, Three-Dimensional and Unpublished. Our judges include art directors Alexandre Lagoet, Amsterdam, Raban Ruddigkeit, Germany and SooJin Buzelli and Darlene Simidian, the US as well as illustrators Roman Klonek and Monika Aichele, Germany, Marco Ventura, Italy and Yuko Shimizu, the US.

You can enter and pay online or send your entries in on disc. If you have any questions please contact us at shows@3×3mag.com, 212 591 2566.

3×3 ProShow Entry deadline: March 14, 2009
Click here to enter. 

All winners will be featured in the 3×3 Illustration Annual No. 6 coming out in late 2009.

Charles Hively, Publisher

Gualicho (Pablo Harymbat) is probably some of the most unique street artist I have ever seen.  His work is all over Buenos Aires. Check it out. Also check out his FLICKR.

Lots of cool work by Italian illustrator  OLIMPIA ZAGNOLI (profile) .

Artist / Illustrator KATY HORAN (profile) has  an Opening March 14, 2009: FATA MORGANA: The New Female Fantasists at Dabora Gallery in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. 

Katy Horan Press Release:

Dear Everybody,

I am very excited because this email is to announce the opening of a group show that I am super stoked to be involved in (I am extra happy about this one because I will be showing with my friend Alexis Mackenzie again).

Opening March 14, 2009: FATA MORGANA: The New Female Fantasists at Dabora Gallery in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. 

From Dabora’s site:
“Dabora Gallery and Phantasmaphile’s Pam Grossman are proud to usher in the spring
season with the group show “Fata Morgana: The New Female Fantasists,” on view
from March 14th through April 12th, 2009. It features fourteen of the most
vital and visionary women artists working in the US today.” 

And they will be serving Absinthe!

Check out the full press release here. 

info:
FATA MORGANA: The New Female Fantasists
March 14 – April 12, 2009
Opening Reception: Saturday, March 14, 8 – 11 PM
Gallery Hours: Saturday and Sunday 12-5pm (March 15 – April 12) 

DABORA GALLERY
1080 Manhattan Ave.
(between Eagle and Dupont)
Greenpoint, Brooklyn
New York 11222

718-609-9629
www.daboragallery.com

So, for all you New Yorkers and Brooklynites, if you are around this weekend, go and check it out. The Gallery alone with all it’s red lit gothic-ness will be worth the trip to Greenpoint. I am shaking my head a little bit,though, because – of course- 2 months after I leave NY for good, I have work in a show there….oh the irony.

Beautiful work and concepts by Vincent MATHY

Artist / Illustrator SARAJO FRIEDEN (profile/spotlight) has created an amazing doll for THE HUNGARIAN DOLL PROJECT.