Tons of really beautiful photos for you this week from Andrew Tomchyshyn here.

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Just squeezing this Flickr Friday in on schedule (west coast time at least).  This Friday’s post features Will Govus’s Flickr, and a bunch of really beautiful photos therein.  I was turned on to Will’s work by Kitsune Noir, and really enjoyed looking through his Flickr photos, as well as his portfolio.

This is really fun, but takes way too long!  Incidently, it’s designed in part by Johanna Lundberg.

Alex Lukas has some new work (as of last month, anyway), on his site, and it’s pretty nice.  We posted about him some time ago, and I must say, I like this new stuff even better than his previous work.  In looking through his portfolio, I noticed his lists of materials utilized per piece to be extensive, sometimes including ink, watercolor, acrylic, gouache, enamel, silkscreen and spray paint in one piece.  While I can see some of these in each piece, I was interested in how each is factored in, and so seemlesly too.  This interview on Fecal Face is informative in a lot of ways, with some descriptions of process, explanations of seemingly disparate materials, and cool photos.

Here are some beautiful drawings from the book “Hitty Her First Hundred Years” by Rachel Field and drawings by Dorothy Lathrop. The book was published in 1929 by Macmillan Co. The narrative unfolds through the eyes of a wooden doll named Hitty. Hitty was carved in the early 19th century for a young girl from Maine. The story details Hitty’s adventures as she travels from owner to owner over the course of a century. She ends up living in locations as far-flung as Boston,  New Orleans, India,  and an island in the South Pacific. At various times,  she is lost deep under sofa cushions,  abandoned in a hayloft,  and serves as part of a snake-charmer’s act. Image thanks to the wonderful Mr. Door Tree.

Okay, long story, but I wanted one of these back in June. I figured I’d wait until my birthday in July. Unbeknownst to me, production of Goccos of any sort was discontinued [again] as of end of June/beginning of July, and by the time I was officially on the market, prices has had gone way up and availability had gone way down. I looked and looked, followed some leads to dead ends, and finally (and triumphantly!) both found and acquired a fabulous Gocco PG-11. Don’t even ask about my method of acquisition (leave it at the extraordinary efforts of good friends and friends of good friends), but, long story short, I proudly beheld my PG-11 for the first time this past Monday. Anyway, here it is, now I’ve just got to figure out how to use it…