Artbooks & Zubehör

'But ... You Said Yellow!' features Michael Jones' painting series and his stories about Bill and Sheila, a retired Aussie couple who live in a tiny red and white caravan somewhere on the coast during the 1960s and 70s.Michael decided that Bill and Sheila should have their own book, so that they can give you youngsters some tips on how to live in harmony - well, almost - and how to survive on practically nothing. Bill is a knockabout bloke who views himself as a manly man. He exaggerates his expertise and abilities to all and sundry, especially Sheila, who likes to visit her mum when she's not engaging with the local CWA, attending their meetings and organising coffee mornings. As you wander through Bill and Sheila's adventures in 'But ... You Said Yellow', you may recognise yourselves, your partners, or friends and rellies - particularly your grandparents or in-laws!Please note: Any resemblance to any person alive or deceased, or just plain tired, is totally coincidental.

Sumi-e is a Japanese word for a style of black ink painting.Portraying the essence (Ch'i) of Nature in an individual brushstroke, with emphasis placed on the beauty of each stroke, rather than to mimic realism, is a vital ingredient of Sumi-e.This is an Art story picture book, each ink stroke evokes poetic imagery of the nature and energy of humans' being.'Human Energy' illustrations are figurative spontaneous abstract art, they explore human energies such as love, life and dance. Each piece was titled with a corresponding mood, upon reflection of the series, the titles became a story and the story become a book, an art picture book.

Using line drawings, colour and text, Robin Richardson transposes the sensibility of poetry into illustrated works, creating bite-sized, artistic meditations on the terribly wonderful, malleable and absurd experience of being alive. Richardson's intuitive works--inspired by medieval illuminated manuscripts--are drawn from fleeting, conscious contact with various notions and emotions; they feel their way around meaning and what it is to be human.It's here, amongst animal imagery and Jungian psychological concepts, that the viewer can, if not careful, become lost in a collection of unsettling yet playful art: themes of loss, fear and euphoria are materially manifested through felt pen and pencil crayon. Within these works of art are scraps of consciousness, demons brought into the light of day and shared as if to say, clearly: you are not alone.

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