Category Archives: Illustration

Rosie James

June 9, 2016 12:02 AM \

RosieJamesRosie James is a British textile artist, teacher and maker whose expertise is in embroidery, stitched thread, sewing and screen printing. Her work involves using a sewing machine as a drawing tool instead of a pen or pencil. She creates images using the stitched line and embellishes them with screen printing, applique, printed fabrics and computer embroidered elements. On an article in Visit Salford she explains her particular interest in figures and crowds:

“I am very interested in crowds and in particular looking at the individual within the crowd. I like to draw people out and about, but I am particularly interested in the details of life, the handbags, the clothes, the shoes, our hairstyles and the stuff we carry around with us; all the things which differentiate us from others. I use a camera to capture these scenes and then make drawings from the photographs. This means I can get all the details.”

You can follow the multi-disciplined artist on her website and on Facebook as well.

Images: Courtesy of Rosie James.

Posted in: Embroidery, Fiber, Illustration, Mixed Media, Sewing, Textile

Ruth Asawa 1926 – 2013

June 8, 2016 12:02 AM \

RuthAsawaRuth Asawa, artist and educator, was born in 1926 in Norwalk, California, one of seven children. She is celebrated as a modernist sculptor but her art training at Black Mountain College in North Carolina was in basic design and drawing (some of her works on paper shown above). She never stopped creating drawings, paintings and sculptures and in her later years became an active proponent in art education. She writes this about her teaching philosophy based on her personal experience:

“A child can learn something about color, about design and about observing objects in nature. If you do that, you grow into a greater awareness of things around you. Art will make people better, more highly skilled in thinking and improving whatever business one goes into, or whatever occupation. It makes a person broader.”

Images: Courtesy of the Estate of Ruth Asawa.

Posted in: Illustration, Printmaking

Sanae Sugimoto

June 7, 2016 12:02 AM \

SanaeSugimotoDon’t know too much about Japanese illustrator, Sanae Sugimoto, whose art we greatly admire.
She’s a graduate of Kyoto Seika Art College and has shown her work in solo as well as group exhibitions. She has also illustrated for magazines and has worked on web, packaging and logos.
You can find her on her website, Instagram and Tumblr.

Images: Courtesy of Sanae Sugimoto.

Posted in: Illustration, Japan
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