nature and art

Frits Ahlefeldt is an artist, eco-freak and hiker who makes art projects about the environment, sustainable living, technology and the challenges and trails ahead of us. He works as an artist, blogger, story teller and graphic facilitator.

He says  "I work from a green vision to empower our cities, to find ways to make us thrive better and to, at the same time, get closer to finding more sustainable ways of living.

In my drawings and storytelling I often use metaphors as I try both to illustrate the challenges, the paradoxes and when possible even to sketch directions, that can get us moving along better trails."

for more: http://hikingartist.com/environment/

the doorway of imagination

Alice in Wonderland, the animated film from Disney, is based on Lewis Caroll's classic of the same name. Alice, bored and with nothing to do, slips in to a fantasy world of her own imagination, populated by strange characters and bizzare happenings. Her fantastic world has gripped the imagination of children and adults alike, for more than two centuries.

also watch the video at   http://youtu.be/sdWYzMgpGPA

parenting

William Boyd “Bill” Watterson is an American artist and the creator of the famous comic strip ‘Calvin and Hobbes’. His work never fails to bring a smile to the reader’s face. His understanding of the simple, yet important truths about human behaviour, his sharp sense of humour, and of course his ability to express the said and the unsaid through pictures makes his characters timeless in their appeal.

Like many artists, Watterson incorporated elements of his life, interests, beliefs and values in to his work. He opined that art should not be judged by the medium for which it is created, and for years, battled against pressure to merchandise his work, something he felt would devalue the characters and their personalities.

A Comic Strip is a sequence of drawings arranged in interrelated panels to display brief humour or form a narrative, often serialised, with text in baloons and captions. Written and drawn by comics artists or cartoonists, they were traditionally published in newspapers in the black and white format.

source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calvin_and_Hobbes

school

The image is a mosaic made up of pieces of painted paper by six year olds under the
guidance of Mr. Hall, an artist and a relief teacher at a number of schools in Australia.

Mosaic is the art of creating images with an assemblage of small pieces of coloured glass, stone, or other materials. Most mosaics are made up of small, flat, roughly square pieces of stone or glass of different colours, known as tessarae, but some may also be made up of rounded pieces of stone called ‘pebble mosaics’

source: http://artwithmrhall.blogspot.in