Uppercase is a delightful magazine describing itself for the creative and curious. While searching through their website I came across a Swedish artist, Camilla Engman, who has submitted illustrations of her dog, Morran. He has now passed onto Doggie Heaven but she has created a book called the Morran Dog Project where she has asked illustrators from all over to do a picture of Morran for inclusion in the book. I ordered a copy and was enchanted. Interestingly enough the book was done by Blurb which prints and creates the book after you order. Good idea. You can do a book, keep it on file and then print off. Save having to do a print run of 1000 minimum. I have attached some of these pictures for various reasons. It was hard to choose but in the end added the one by Margaret Reneke because it shows the contrast of light and dark so well which I have been writing about earlier. The one of Kirsten Donegan's crocheted dog is included along with other mediated pictures. I chose that because crochet work is not valued as as art form. Check out the 'Woof' Much of illstrative work now is very much centred on the line and there isn't much painterly art around in magazines so that was another reason I put in the image by Taragh Bissett and i have included Rosa Carina's joyful little lino cut because it is a medium that I work in sometimes.
