The shores of Vancouver Island’s wild west coast are overflowing with Whale based Art & celebrations during this week’s Pacific Rim Whale Festival, as they celebrate the arrival of upwards of 20,000 grey whales on their northbound migration from the Baja Peninsula to Alaska’s Bering Strait and beyond.
Visit the link to find out more about the Pacific Rim Whale Festival and support this great cause
Work copyright Zoe Brookes
We loved stumbling upon this blog and finding the exquisite doodles of Zoe Brookes. Of her Nantucket inspired sketches she writes “Lanterns, flags, sea shells, some harpoons mixed in there, plus some general nautical imagery for good measure. Plans? Definitely a strung up lantern pattern for maybe fabric application (I’m thinking a skirt?) and maybe play the old school metal ones against a more vibrant, playful paper lantern design. Also I want to play with the flags more! Results to come!”
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Nantucket Inspired Art
As record crowds brave freezing temperatures for President Elect Barack Obama’s inauguration, it’s worth considering that few political figures in the recent past have generated such an outpouring of support amongst creatives and artists or reached icon status so quickly. Here’s a-few examples of Obama Art courtesy of ArtCulture Magazine.
Next Tuesday (July 2nd) has been officially designated Unofficial International WordPress Day by the folk over at WPCandy and they have some pretty good stuff to give away to celebrate. For anyone who dosn’t know, WordPress is a open source publishing platform allowing users to build blogs and CMS websites with the minimum of coding knowledge (we use it here at Nantucket Art). (more…)
