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thefugitivesaint · 1 month

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Celia Levetus (1874-1936), ''The Songs of Experience'' by William Blake, 1902 Source

#Celia Levetus #canadian artists #william blake #The Songs of Experience #vintage illustration #vintage art

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shelandsorcery · 8 months

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Finished this piece! Referencing another of Filip Mroz's gorgeous Toronto streetscapes (did he take this out the front window of his car???) and indulging in a lot of nostalgia for king street of yore and streetcars of yore and so forth.

Also, that cobalt blue sky! One of my absolute favourite types of light, everything is so richly saturated and yet values are much subtler. Pure magic.

#painting #gouache painter #illustration #canadian artists #toronto #streetcar

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uwmspeccoll · 1 year

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Staff Pick of the Week

My staff pick this week is the trade edition of The Tale of the Shining Princess by Japanese-born writer Hisako Matsubara (b.1935) and Japanese-Canadian artist-printmaker Naoko Matsubara (b.1937), published by Kodansha International LTD. Tokyo, Japan in 1966.

As a artist-printmaker and bookmaker who makes woodcuts, I am greatly inspired by Naoko’s prints. Naoko Matsubara’s work carries on traditions of Japanese printmaking while having its own contemporary flavor. Her woodcuts are ecstatic, they are vibrating with movement. Her use of bold shapes and the white line of the the carving tool makes the most of what woodcut has to offer. In the book form, the active images carry the reader’s eyes through the book space. Her use of negative space activates the page. Additionally, her woodcuts have translated beautifully to commercial printing.

The Matsubara sisters are daughters of a senior Shinto priest, and were raised in Kyoto. Both studied, lived, and worked in the United States. Hisako received her Master of Arts degree from Pennsylvania State College, moving to Germany where she continued her studies and became a prominent writer, publishing her work in Japanese, English, and German. In the 1980s she moved back to the United States, this time to California where she worked at Stanford University.

Naoko received her Master of Fine Arts from Carnegie Institute of Technology in Pittsburgh, now Carnegie Mellon University. After her studies she traveled across Europe and Asia. She returned to the United States and became the personal assistant to the artist and wood engraver Fritz Eichenberg, an artist who has been featured many times on our blog. Naoko taught at Pratt University in New York and at the University of Rohde Island. She also lived in Cambridge, Massachusetts for a time. Naoko is currently living and working in Canada in Oakville, Ontario, where she continues to work and exhibit nationally.

The work of both Hisako and Naoko have had great influence inside the United States and around the world. So lets celebrate their accomplishments!

This book has end sheets of mulberry paper with inclusions of Bamboo leaves, the cover is a red textured paper with a gold stamped design by Naoko.

View some of our other AAPI selections for this month.

View our other Staff Picks.

- Teddy, Special Collections Graduate Intern

#staff pick of the week #The Tale of The Shining Princess #hisako matsubara #naoko matsubara #Japanese artists #Japanese writers #Japan #AAPI Hertitage Month #Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month #AAPI #canadian artists #trade edition #Matsubara #woodcuts #printmaking #color printmaking #fiction #stories #teddy

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designs-by-sloan · 3 months

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{ Commissions open as of February 1st 2024 }

Reblogs appreciated! 💐

To check commissions availability, there's a link on my Carrd (link in bio) and as always, feel free to dm me for questions or a price quote!

I'd also like to note... I'll be increasing my pricing to help me through the current economy, but until I build a portfolio of newer samples, these will stay my prices. I'll give an update before officially increasing my rates as well. But regardless, any support be it reblogs or commissioning me would be a huge help to me!

#commissions open #commission sheet #commission me #commissions info #canadian artists #digital art #watercolour style #watercolor style #anime commission #artists on tumblr #illustrators on tumblr #dnd commissions #chibi commissions #custom gift #custom art #commissions #designs by sloan #custom artwork

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the-cricket-chirps · 7 months

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Carl Ray (1943 - 1978)

Spirit Fish

c. 1975

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samanthalucy · 1 year

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I’ve always had a weird obsession with Lucy Maude Montgomery work, especially Anne of Green Gables. I’ve always taken this quote as something of a personal motto so I wanted to do something special with it.

#anne with an e #anne of green gables #anne shirley #anne #green gables #fanart #anneofgreengablesart #canadian artists #digital artist #procreate art #female illustrators #motivational quotations #classics #classicnovels #litart

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vox-anglosphere · 9 months

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Tom Thomson's 'Cliff by the Lake' (1912): His art & his legend live on

#Tom Thomson #'Cliff by the Lake'#Canadian artists #forest #Algonquin Park #Canoe Lake #iconic paintings #wilderness #unsolved mystery #death by drowning #Northern Ontario #1912

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thedepartmentofdiscoveries · 2 months

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"Diana"

by @janicesung (Instagram)

#artists on instagram #janice sung #canadian artist #canadian artists #artists on facebook

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hisonetrueloveee · 6 days

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Honestly what does 4*Town not go with? This is gasssss

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thefugitivesaint · 24 days

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Richard Taylor (1902-1970), 'Wood Song', ''The Goblin'', Vol. 7, #7, March 1927 Source

#Richard Taylor #Richard Denison Taylor #canadian artists #Goblin #goblin magazine #vintage illustration #art deco

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pittipedia · 1 year

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#Illustration Scene from "By This Shall You Know Him", a graphic novel by Jesse Jacobs (Koyama Press, 2012) http://jessejacobs.ca

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felidaefatigue · 2 years

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New individually watercoloured linocuts are up in the shop, please check them out!

#watercolours #linocut #watercolor #5x7 art #american robin #american magpie #robins #magpies #juniper #winterberry #art for sale #etsy artists #printmaking #canadian printmakers #canadian artists #cat scratches

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designs-by-sloan · 2 years

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"Even though I have nothing, I yearn for something Remaining with nothing, I closed off tomorrow Though I have nothing, yet because I have nothing I found it here: This melody" - from the song Kanade Tomosu Sora

What’s your favourite gacha game right now? My sister @dash-of-creativity adores Project Sekai, especially Nightchord at 25:00, so I drew the group for her birthday!! { Close-ups under the cut! } Artwork © 2022 Sloan || Don’t use or repost my art without permission. Check my carrd for links, my redbubble shop, and commission info

This artwork took a long, long time to draw. None of my lace brushes worked, so almost every detail was done by hand. It was... a lot, but making my sister happy made the struggle 100% worth it.