children's books.

I think I want to do a bunch of children's books that are influenced by the scribbly sort of collage drawing style that I do.

To Do:
Duck story
Cow story
Dog and Boat story
Story with Danielle

FUN

dead or not dead.

I was just thinking about dying technologies. Were people upset when the scrolls were phasing out? I imagine that it wouldn't have been talked about to the extent that we worry about the death of print these days, but the idea must have come up. Did people say, it's just not going to be the same flipping over pages. I'm going to miss the smoothness and continuity that a scroll provides. Flipping pages in a book is so jumpy. So disconcerting.

These days, I'm not exactly worried about books. At least for a while. I feel confident that they will stay around because recent examples we have of changing technology. People were worried that photography would mean the end of painting in the 20s. But we still have painting. And even though photography has become digital, we still use film photography, even if it's more of an art form. In fact, we still even use black and white film photography. My guess right now is that print will keep going. It might be reserved for more the less mundane, everyday types of expression. I think I'm okay with that. Print is beautiful, and I think I will enjoy not seeing marketing material plastered all over beautiful pieces of paper.

But, scrolls did die out and become obsolete, so I guess it's possible that we might loose books. That makes me sad to think about. But I guess it will be okay. Things are always changing, aren't they.

history reading notes.

To simplify for myself: I learned: that the Greek library in Alexandria burnt down in Caesar's time. I learned about Vatican Vergil which represents classical style. A way to describe this would be rustic capitals, pictorial and historical book illustration. A good way to describe the illustrations would be rich colors and illusionist use of space. FUN

The classical style:
Greek library in Alexandria was destroyed during a fire during the time of Julius Ceasar (100-44 BC). 700,000 scrolls were destroyed. What has survived shows that the style was similar to comic books. Simple drawings mixed with writing.

Vatican Vergil: Earliest surviving illustrated manuscript. Created in the late 4th century AD. Rustic capital letters, wide column, framed band of color around illustrations (often red) and are the same size as the column.

Pagan subject matter. Illustrations echo wall frescoes (rich colors and illusionist space) of Pompeii.

These represents the classical style (pictorial and historical method of book illustration with rustic capitals). Characterizes late Roman book design.