 Donatien Mary
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I like his aquatints and his linear drawing style. It reminds me of Otto Dix and Georg Grosz. I like how he uses limited color and can work the whole page or spread. It's just caustic, vibrant and immediate work that incorporates the best drawing of European graphic and comic history… and beyond. Hope you enjoy these samples: 
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Birdman
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In a jungle of tweeting birds, how will you stand out? 
A vector illustration created for Nancy Duckworth at California Real Estate Magazine. With so many people tweeting, how can you create a valuable & unique brand or find other useful twitter feeds to connect with? Does this keep you up at night?? 
detail: textures are 1-bit tiff files dropped into my Freehand vector file. 
My sketch. I did a few others but Nancy chose the one I knew was the best option. It was fun from start to finish. 
More birds done the same week for Tuck Today. AD: Laura DeCapua, Tuck School of Business, Dartmouth College. The subject was the availability of online content for their foundation curriculum. 
Here are some nice real birds that do not tweet. They quack and they do not know what tweeting is and they probably think you are really weird for even reading this far when it's such a nice day outside! I drew this pair of mallards this morning at the South Natick Dam. They are dabbling for bits of I-don't-know-what at the very top of the dam where the water flows down. It's a nice place. Come visit sometime. Errata
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The drawings and watercolors open a peephole on a whimsical cosmology that includes floating crocodiles, happily suicidal monkeys, elephants that can walk underwater and at least forty pharaohs' tombs. It is quite extensive and full of offbeat philosophical humor and good old play. He generously sent me a copy of the catalog last week and seeing the paintings as sequenced in the book (I've seen many of them on Alain's facebook albums) has made them seem even more mysterious …and funny. 
Last year, Lachartre sent me a poster rolled up in a beautifully decorated cardboard box. 
Perhaps you've already seen this book. Included are many doodles and rejected items from the New Yorker. Classic Steig moonshine unfiltered. Prepare to be inspired. The chapter intro texts by Jeanne Steig are funny and illuminating. Sorry for the bad snapshots! 
more city doodles in Studioville 
sketchbook painting and a the corner of a piece for next year's Dellas Graphics Frog Folio calendar. 
Home Sweet Home! Messing around
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cloudy with a chance of paint 
like a video game 
various grades of cardboard, charcoal, colored pencil, watercolor, crayons 
single edge razor blade wrapper (and a John Broadley book spine)
Like knitting or quilting, when I have a few minutes and don't know what to do with it, I retreat to doodling these buildings and cutting them out. I like to explore them with a camera. Just messing around.
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