Thursday, February 4, 2010

Carson Ellis and Sarah Really Does Take Photos

If you've ever seen a Decemberists album, you've seen a Carson Ellis illustration. She's a beautiful, beautiful artist who I hate because a) she's got talent coming out of her ears, and b) she's married to Colin Meloy. And because I still haven't gotten over the Decemberists gig I saw in Melbourne, I've been e-stalking her.

She has a website:
which is here, but she also has a couple of no-longer-updated blogs, many of which contain a treasure trove of illustrations, paintings and sketches.

This has a few month's worth of daily illustration updates.

Examplification:









And if you feel like seeing what inspires the inspirational, she kept a blog of Inspiring Finds here at Faster Maria.

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In other news, given the title of this blog, I've not provided much in the way of evidence for the 'takes photos' part. Well, I've started a new project. I spent 2008 shooting a self-portrait every day for a year - the 365 Days project. It was a madcap year, and although I had moments of serious self-doubt at 4 am, trying to think of something creative to do, it was a deeply satisfying thing to look back at a year's worth of work and see the improvements I'd made.

So now I'm starting a new project. 365 days, 365 photos, but instead of being limited to self-portraits, I'll be expanding the project to encompass portraits generally - whether self, friends, family, strangers - the rule is that every day, I must shoot a portrait of someone.

The first four are here, all subsequents will be accessible via my Flickr.









Over and out.