Illustration Friday : Music

Dry poppy seedpods, papery music.

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Illustration Friday : [You're] Welcome

Le 1er mai en Strasbourg (Alsace, France).

The telephone conversation included a "Merci" and "C'etais un plaisir"--a flowery stand-in for You're welcome. The chipper cafe waitress answered "C'est rien"--a more casual You're welcome.

Illustration Friday : Legendary

The legend of Angelique (Angelica) saved by Roger (Ruggiero) is found in the 1516 adventure poem Orlando Furioso by Ludovico Ariosto. (He was Italian, as evidenced by all the o’s).

Pencil sketch from a model by Antione-Louis Barye, at la Musée des Beaux Arts in Strasbourg.

Illustration Friday : Sugary

The Victor Immanuel II monument, in Rome, is a tiered and sugar-coated cake.

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Illustration Friday : Packed

The sky in Milan is full of saints, sentries, theologians, angels--hundreds of people balanced on tapering towers, facing outwards at the city from the cathedral.


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Illustration Friday : Clique

John the Baptist:

An outside member to the standard New Testament clique, though later effectively absorbed.

in the "Battistero", Piazza dei Miracoli, Pisa


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Illustration Friday : Routine

Altered detail of Baltazar de Echave Orio's painting, The Magnificat. (A daily routine, in the Book of Common Prayer's Order for Evening Prayer.)















"My soul proclaims the greatness of the Lord,
my spirit rejoices in God my Savior;
for he has looked with favor on his lowly servant.
From this day all generations will call me blessed:
the Almighty has done great things for me,
and holy is his Name.
He has mercy on those who fear him
in every generation.
He has shown the strength of his arm,
he has scattered the proud in their conceit.
He has cast down the mighty from their thrones,
and has lifted up the lowly.
He has filled the hungry with good things,
and the rich he has sent away empty.
He has come to the help of his servant Israel,
for he has remembered his promise of mercy,
The promise he made to our fathers,
to Abraham and his children for ever."

Illustration Friday : Detach

Painted postcards

Illustration Friday : Sail

Setting sail again for the ivory towers any time now.


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Illustration Friday : Poof!

She looked down and Poof! Her lunch had appeared. Clever waiter.


(an excerpt from a sheet of MoMA sketches.)



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Illustration Friday : Enough

There's enough mystery for everyone.


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Illustration Friday : Fierce

Note: The figures are copied from a Mayan painting of masked actors partying together; the designs coming from the trumpet are riffs on Aztec and Mayan patterns found on sculptures.

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Illustration Friday : Hoard

An accidental hoard of museum postcards, which need to be sent.



From the Ashmolean, Oxford


From the MoMA, New York City


From the MoMA, New York City


From the British Museum, London