Enrico’s blog

Sorry for the delay on setting the next global drawing marathon day, been a little busy with the TFP, but here’s the day finally: Saturday OCTOBER 25th!! Mark your calendars and come by the forums! This is a big one, almost 4 years of SketchCrawling around the world!!! Exciting!

Fantastic post on Drawn.ca regarding Ronald Searle and his process. His Paris Sketchbook has been on my bedside table for the past 2 years. I love to paging through that book. I’ve been wanting to make a somewhat similar book out of my last trip to Japan for years now. Sooner or later hopefully I’ll get to it. Here’s a Searle illustration from another great book of his “Haven’t we met before somewhere?”.

Don’t miss this fantastic post at GhibliWorld.com, it’s retelling parts of the japanese TV program “Professional” that followed Miyazaki’s during the making of Ponyo. It’s a wonderful peak at his process and it shows how finding that movie is not always an easy thing. I especially love the description of the way he starts developing a movie, which is by just painting imageboards of what he’d love to see in a story, from those images ideas slowly start forming in his head. Such a fluid way of going. There’s some interesting details about Miyazaki San’s beginnings in animation as well. Enjoy.

Have you tried Pandora? The Music Genome Project internet radio? It’s a little limited in the scope, I wish they could start adding some international music on it, but it still really works wonderfully. I was in a slow and quiet mood last tonight and there’s this Tom Waits song I absolutely love: “Take it with me”. It came to mind seeming to fit the mood so I entered it and the following ten songs Pandora chose were just amazing, a great fit, completely in that mood, but also from diverse and interesting artists. Ultimately that’s what Pandora is great for, making you discover artists you might not know of but that are up your alley, but it’s sure is amazing at hitting a certain mood. Here’s the beautiful ending lyrics of the Tom Waits song. Happy sunday.

In a land there’s a town
And in that town there’s
A house
And in that house
There’s a woman
And in that woman
There’s a heart I love
I’m gonna take it
With me when I go
I’m gonna take it
With me when I go

Interesting dance installation/performance, titled “the shifting cornerstone”, going on this weekend and next. Accidentally happening at the same time as a zombie rampage taking over the streets downtown. I’m not kidding … Quite the juxtaposition.

Don’t miss this great post from Dice delving into the details of this wonderful forest and what it stands for. The wonderful photo is by Arito Suzuki.

Thanks to Google maps japan this link will take you inside Sayama Forest, the very woods we are helping to save!! Take a virtual stroll and be very sure to keep on walking down the path … after a few clicks as the road veers to the left, you’ll see a very familiar friend. Amazing!

Here’s another watercolor I just finished for the “Forest Hero” tickets goody bag. It’s fun to do these. Sorry for the bad iphone photo, will scan it asap.

Dice and I are gonna try and blog about all that is TFP in the next few weeks of preparation to the auction, since we really don’t have enough to do.
So here it is … oh and there’s a TFP blog in 日本語 too. Sugoi desho!

I had a great time at gesture drawing today, we had two models for the session and they were fantastic. It makes so much sense to have two since they really have no choice but really get into it and play act situations. So refreshing and fun.