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Of course, it's IMPOSSIBLE to behold (and attempt to draw no less) this beautiful stuff without constantly having one shining example front and center: This of course is "The Great Piece of Turf" an amazing watercolor study painted by Albrecht Dürer in 1503 in his Nuremberg atelier several years after his return from that little trip to Italy. The original painting is in the Albertina Museum in Vienna. Have any of you been to the Albertina? Is it amazing? I'd love to go. And wander. And draw… like Dürer… for pleasure and for work. Same thing! Getting back to the book project, I'm working on sample finishes this week. So far, the look is more like William Steig than Albrecht Dürer. I don't think Dürer needs to worry at all! But I love William Steig!



]]> Fri, 18 May 2012 15:04:51 EDT http://www.drawger.com/robd/index.php?section=articles&article_id=13337 Donatien Mary is an illustrator and printmaker from France. He graduated from Les Arts Décoratifs de Strasbourg in 2007 and currently lives in Paris. He's involved in many personal projects, bande dessinée and books for Actes Sud, Les petits Platons and Éditions 2024. I like his aquatints and his linear drawing style. It reminds me of Otto Dix and Georg Grosz. I like how he uses limited color and can work the whole page or spread. It's just caustic, vibrant and immediate work that incorporates the best drawing of European graphic and comic history… and beyond. Hope you enjoy these samples:















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]]> Tue, 17 Apr 2012 01:52:09 EDT http://www.drawger.com/robd/index.php?section=articles&article_id=13208 If you're in Paris in April, besides whatever else that idea conjures up, plan to stop in at Galerie Petits Papiers (91 rue Saint-Honoré 75001) and see "La Valise Égyptienne" drawings and paintings by Alain Lachartre. The drawings and watercolors open a peephole on a whimsical cosmology that includes floating crocodiles, happily suicidal monkeys, elephants that can walk underwater and at least forty pharaohs' tombs. It is quite extensive and full of offbeat philosophical humor and good old play. He generously sent me a copy of the catalog last week and seeing the paintings as sequenced in the book (I've seen many of them on Alain's facebook albums) has made them seem even more mysterious …and funny.





I found this one at my local library: "Cats, Dogs, Men, Women, Ninnies & Clowns, The Lost Art of William Steig" by Jeanne Steig. Introduction by Roz Chast and an Afterword by Jules Feiffer. Abrams, 2011 Perhaps you've already seen this book. Included are many doodles and rejected items from the New Yorker. Classic Steig moonshine unfiltered. Prepare to be inspired. The chapter intro texts by Jeanne Steig are funny and illuminating. Sorry for the bad snapshots!













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Like knitting or quilting, when I have a few minutes and don't know what to do with it, I retreat to doodling these buildings and cutting them out. I like to explore them with a camera. Just messing around.

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