#art book club

[uwmspeccoll]

Typography Tuesday

Last month, the Milwaukee Public Library's Arts & Media Department held its first Art Book Club session. Intended as an informal art book appreciation club that meets once a month in the Art, Music, and Recreation room, each session explores a different theme by looking at the wide variety of art materials in the collection. The collection is historical, non-circulating, and vast. I attended and spent an hour and a half mesmerized by the array of luscious materials presented.

There was design, architecture, fashion, and much more. As a type nerd, I was especially drawn to the several late 19th- and early 20th-century type specimen books on the tables. Here, for example, are some pages of chromatic initials by various European and American companies from Schriften Atlas, compiled by Ludwig Petzendorfer and published in Stuttgart by Julius Hoffmann in 1898.

MPL held its second Art Book Club session on the theme of "Animals" last night, but I missed it because I was conducting an evening instruction session. Dang! But I'll be attending future sessions when I can and I'll keep y'all apprised.

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-- MAX, Head, Special Collections

[freemoneyfree]

Highlights from the monthly Art Book Club at Milwaukee Public Library- Central. (next one is 2/26!)

Images 1-2: Aperture 229 Winter 2017 (feat. Rrose is a Rrose is a Rrose revisited)/ Aperture 241 Winter 2020

Image 3: from The Spirited Earth: Dance, Myth, and Ritual from South Asia to the South Pacific by Victoria Ginn

Images 4-6: from Nan Goldin / I'll be Your Mirror

[learnelle]

Book club paintings vol. 1 ♡ The Love Letter (1911) by George Lawrence Bulleid and Miss Auras, The Red Book (1907) by John Lavery

[wilsonmybeloved]

heard we were fiddlestanning

you know the drill..

(full image under cut)

[hatepotion]

father's day gift from matthew or something

[rayroseu]

dont fight all alone in the rain, mother

I found it depressing that when Meleanor faced the Silver Owls, it was raining hard and she didn't have an umbrella to shield her from it. In her life, she was always the spoiled and sheltered princess so her standing in the rain feels so dissonance with her noble nature, but it also tells that she went in that battlefield without anyone protecting her.

I also realized that, unlike Levan, when Meleanor bid goodbye to Lilia, she never said that she'll return. Baul and Lilia trusted that she'll survive and return home yet Meleanor didn't believe that could happen so she didn't promise she'll come back. 💔😭

[notbecauseofvictories]

I'm rewatching leverage out of nostalgia and some other emotion I haven't figured out yet, and I do think there's a story in "Maggie Ford Collins deals with having the most unhinged ex in her suburban book group, learns to hotwire a car, and gets her groove back, not in that particular order."

[tyrannosarahsrex8]

Local dorito tries to scare a depressed wet cat of a man, gets snapped in half

Like. Oh? You don’t want to admit that you killed your dimension? What to Feel Their Fear As They Died? That’s what you get for making Mable sad.

[yumbles]

Cover of the second volume of the graphic novel that Molly Ostertag wrote and i drew, Dungeon Club: Time to Party! it's coming out on July 9!!!

the series is about a group of 8th graders playing D&D. we delve into their in-game adventures and see how their real world experiences shape the campaign. you'll laugh, you'll cry, and you'll want to play your own session lol! it's a lot of fun and i love drawing every page.

I colored this cover, but the interior colors are by Amelia Allore and they are SO beautiful. please check it out, u gotta see it!!

[joytri]

oh to find beauty in ordinary things

[anorlondos]

I've decided to make portraits for each of Miquella's followers in the DLC, so here's Ansbach and Leda (my two favorites!!)

I'm probably going to go back and paint over these sometime (after I sketch all 7), but that will take a while, so I figured I'll post the doodles as I make them :)

[uwmspeccoll]

Typography Tuesday

Last week, I showed you some initials I encountered at the Milwaukee Public Library's first Art Book Club gathering in October. Those initials were from an 1898 specimen book, Schriften Atlas, compiled by Ludwig Petzendorfer. This week I'm showing some alphabet sets from another collection I encountered there. These specimens are from Vignettes, lettres, chiffres, monogrammes et rehauts modernes, published in Paris by Les Éditions Guérinet, R. Panzani, successeur in 1931. The specimen book includes alphabets by several designers. The sets shown here are by A. Bardi and P. Picaud, whom I have not been able to identify. Still, the letter forms are quite enjoyable.

The next Art Book Club session at MPL will be on Saturday, December 16, 2023, 1:30-3 pm, with the theme of "Technology."

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– MAX, Head, Special Collections

[kiat-b-saguru]

Forgotten Fairy of Dragon Fire

Watercolour, ink, watercolour ink & digital

[learnelle]

Book club paintings vol. 4 ♡ Good companion (1872) by Frederick Morgan / The Maid with the Golden Hair (1895) by Frederic Leighton

[the-lonelyshepherd]

yellowjackets airbud au. everything is exactly the same except lottie is a dog like airbud.

started as crack then it got serious. it actually works so well expect more

[juniemunie]

Broskis ts!underswap is so fun. every single part of it is *chefs kiss*

I went in completely blind and honestly i think it was the best move i could have made

i love how its just swapped roles but not personalities so it leads to stuff like this its so creative

Anyways have some more self insert sansnomaly (and chara)