Super List Saturday, April 13, 2013: 12 Well-Loved Books From My Shelves. This isn’t meant as a definite list of my favorite books, or books I consider to be “best” books, but out of all the books I own, they are certainly important to me. For better or for worse, they have all shaped me as a person.
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Super List Saturday, April 13, 2013: 12 Well-Loved Books From My Shelves.

This isn’t meant as a definite list of my favorite books, or books I consider to be “best” books, but out of all the books I own, they are certainly important to me. For better or for worse, they have all shaped me as a person.

Super List Saturday, April 6, 2013: 9 Piles in My Room. I recently came across an article about important creative habits, and it mentioned keeping your work area tidy. That got me thinking about how I keep everything in piles, which I thought would make a great SLS. So instead of cleaning up my piles, I drew them. The article was helpful.
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Super List Saturday, April 6, 2013: 9 Piles in My Room.

I recently came across an article about important creative habits, and it mentioned keeping your work area tidy. That got me thinking about how I keep everything in piles, which I thought would make a great SLS. So instead of cleaning up my piles, I drew them. The article was helpful.

Sushi World, 2013. Acrylic and glow-in-the-dark paint on paper, 5”x7”. I made this painting as a thank-you to my biffle Vickie who did some Google  work for me over the phone when I was stranded in Dallas late one night and needed to find a nearby business that was open late. She found Sushi World, which is a delicious, magical restaurant. I painted the sign in glow-in-the-dark paint so it’s always lit up in the dark, just like the real one. 
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Sushi World, 2013. Acrylic and glow-in-the-dark paint on paper, 5”x7”.

I made this painting as a thank-you to my biffle Vickie who did some Google  work for me over the phone when I was stranded in Dallas late one night and needed to find a nearby business that was open late. She found Sushi World, which is a delicious, magical restaurant. I painted the sign in glow-in-the-dark paint so it’s always lit up in the dark, just like the real one. 

quickdrawcollective: Portrait of Mary Toft, 2013. Watercolor and acrylic on paper, 8”x10”. Mary Toft seemed like a fitting historical figure for an Easter Sunday falling on the last day of Women’s History Month. A poor resident of the English countryside in the Eighteenth-Century, Toft began a hoax that convinced people she was giving birth to rabbits. If you’re wondering how she pulled it off, it involved her putting baby rabbits into her, um, well—actually, I’ll let you look it up yourself. I first learned about Mary Toft from the wonderful Baby Geniuses Podcast, and The Awl has a great article about her. —Kenton Visser Mary Toft, everybody! This is my first finished piece for the Quickdraw Collective and i hope you like it.
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Portrait of Mary Toft, 2013. Watercolor and acrylic on paper, 8”x10”.

Mary Toft seemed like a fitting historical figure for an Easter Sunday falling on the last day of Women’s History Month. A poor resident of the English countryside in the Eighteenth-Century, Toft began a hoax that convinced people she was giving birth to rabbits. If you’re wondering how she pulled it off, it involved her putting baby rabbits into her, um, well—actually, I’ll let you look it up yourself. I first learned about Mary Toft from the wonderful Baby Geniuses Podcast, and The Awl has a great article about her.

—Kenton Visser

Mary Toft, everybody! This is my first finished piece for the Quickdraw Collective and i hope you like it.

Super List Saturday, March 30, 2013: 12 Frames in the Dallas Museum of Art. I illustrated this week’s list from sketches and photos I made during my volunteer shift at the Dallas Museum of Art last Saturday. Some of them are from framed works of art, but most of them are from the Wendy and Emory Reeves Collection, where there is an entire room surrounded in ornate, gilded frames hung without anything inside them.
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Super List Saturday, March 30, 2013: 12 Frames in the Dallas Museum of Art.

I illustrated this week’s list from sketches and photos I made during my volunteer shift at the Dallas Museum of Art last Saturday. Some of them are from framed works of art, but most of them are from the Wendy and Emory Reeves Collection, where there is an entire room surrounded in ornate, gilded frames hung without anything inside them.

Make Lists, 2013. Gouache and acrylic on paper, mounted in wood frame with acrylic and collage.

Do you like making lists? I like making lists. I like lists so much I have another blog about them.

You can buy this painting on my Etsy and hang it somewhere to remind you to make more lists.

quickdrawcollective: What I’m Working On, March 2013: 1: A portrait of infamous historical con man Jeff “Soapy” Smith 2: Several typographic/cartographic projects 3: Experimental acrylic paintings 4: Daily sketch diary where I write and draw things no one else will ever see —Kenton Visser I am one of the Quickdraw Collective’s most recent inductees. Check out the QDC Tumblr for updates from me and the rest of its assembled illustrators.
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What I’m Working On, March 2013:

1: A portrait of infamous historical con man Jeff “Soapy” Smith

2: Several typographic/cartographic projects

3: Experimental acrylic paintings

4: Daily sketch diary where I write and draw things no one else will ever see

—Kenton Visser

I am one of the Quickdraw Collective’s most recent inductees. Check out the QDC Tumblr for updates from me and the rest of its assembled illustrators.

Super List Saturday, March 9, 2013: 32 Pieces of Silverware at the Dallas Museum of Art. I drew this on location in the DMA last week after my volunteer shift. The museum has a bunch of great early American decor and artifacts, and I always enjoy the silver. The scimitar-looking knives are ice cream hatchets, which is a great item of silverware everyone should own.
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Super List Saturday, March 9, 2013: 32 Pieces of Silverware at the Dallas Museum of Art.

I drew this on location in the DMA last week after my volunteer shift. The museum has a bunch of great early American decor and artifacts, and I always enjoy the silver.

The scimitar-looking knives are ice cream hatchets, which is a great item of silverware everyone should own.