On the 4th of June 1879, British illustrator and designer Mabel Lucie Attwell was born in Mile End, London. At the turn of the century, her drawings of sentimentalized rotund cuddly infants, started appearing in various media such as: cards, calendars, nursery equipment, pictures, crockery and china ware, dolls, postcards, advertisements, posters, books and figurines. […] via Female Decorative Artists in Early 20th-Century Britain — A R T L▼R K
On drawing food as an art — and an emotional process. via “Have Your Cake and Draw It Too”: Food Illustrators Reflect on Taste and Memory — Discover
T.S. Eliot said April is the cruelest month, (“dull roots with Spring rain,” and all that) but so far, around here at least, May hasn’t been too nice to us, either. Cold and dreary here today (again). Time for more Flower Power!
A conversation with award-winning cartoonist Drew Dernavich, who was involved with two book projects recently, including his first children’s book. via Cartoonist Drew Dernavich on Humor, Craft, and Drawing for The New Yorker — Discover