Carson Ellis's Blog, page 4

Here’s my contribution to the “Posters for Events in St. Johns that Feature the St. Johns Bridge” genre.

The St. Johns Bizarre is SO MUCH FUN.  As is the St. Johns parade that happens on the same day.  Go!  I’ll see you there.

Look what I got to leaf through at the central library in Portland.

Did you know that the original printing of Little Fur Family was tiny and bound with rabbit fur?  Margaret Wise Brown, you were such a freak!  Thank you, Jim Carmin, for letting me hold this weird little thing.  It made my day.

Over and over and over again.

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There's a ton of new fan art up at the Wildwood blog.  I'm especially fond of this portrait of Curtis by an unnamed 4th grader at Mt. Erie Elementary in Anacortes, Washington.

I'm working, working, working away on the sketches for the sequel to Wildwood.  I posted some more of them over here on the WW blog.  Also, I have jumped upon the tumblr bandwagon.  See?

I keep forgetting to post anything here, ever.  Well, all that's about to change!  A few things:

I had an illustration in The New Yorker a couple of weeks back which was a lifelong ambition of mine.  So that was exciting.  It featured the Warsaw Village Band and an opera adaptation of A Blessing on the Moon, by Joseph Skibell:

Also, I have a couple of pieces for sale at Compound in Portland.  They're in a giant group show called Deadstock which is a fundraiser for the righteous Right Brain Initiative, a local organization that promotes art in public schools.  Here's some info about it and here are the pieces I submitted:

And in other blog-worthy news, we went to the Grammys last weekend.  They were fun and spectacular and obscene and hokey.  We sat behind Skrillex and in front of Val Kilmer.  Lady Gaga carried a golden scepter and stood next to us for a while, so close we could have goosed her mesh-covered ass.  We didn't take a picture on the red carpet but we did take one on our hotel balcony.  This is what we look like when we're dressed up:

My son, my two-time grammy-nominated husband, and I

Two things I learned today when I unearthed an ancient college sketchbook:

1. I thought my college art was bad but some of it was good and I was a better portrait artist then.

2. All my friends had glasses. Stiv had a ball-bearing necklace.

Kari

Matt

Paul

Colin

Stiv

me

the view from my studio at the Front Street house

This beautiful drawing was a gift from my father-in-law.  It's by the late, elder Hank Meloy:  Colin's great-uncle, my son's namesake, Raymond Pettibon of the 1940s.

Come on down and see the terrific work these kids have been making.