My favourite thing to do when visiting the library is to cruise up and down the beloved nature & animal stacks and pick out books with titles that catch my eye. WET and FAT was too good of a tagline to resist, and the illustrations inside are just as fascinating. {ISBN 0-919519-76-8}
I am seriously sitting here bewildered, wondering where the entire month of September went! Since the move, time has been flying faster than I can even remember, and this past month was the quickest yet. I’m sure that people who are currently attending school are especially wondering where the time has gone! For September’s collaborative post I asked readers to submit “Old School” imagery, but sadly like me, time got away from everyone and I didn’t received any submissions; I remain hopeful that more people will submit to October’s themed post: Autumnal (click here for details). So for now, in place of your pretty artwork, I thought I would share a few pages from Uppercase‘s collection of artists’ renditions of chalk dust, pink erasers, wooden desks and all the sweet memories that go along with them, in their gorgeous artist book Old School. 
Don’t these artworks just make you feel all warm, fuzzy and nostalgic? (not to mention eager to learn!?) This book is so utterly fantastic; a paperback throwback filled with perfect renderings of classic grade school education!
I borrowed and read an awesome artist book from the library that I’d heard lots about in the past: Obsessive Consumption, what did you buy today? by Kate Bingaman-Burt, a professor at Portland State University and a true zine queen. Kate started drawing her purchases back in early 2006 as daily sketchbook doodles and she hasn’t stopped since. 
These simple sketches have become well-renowned and they speak of far more than just consumerism: her quirky representations make underlying comments about our material-driven culture, yet they also give us a peek into the artist’s life and their current on-goings. This book made me look into my own recent purchases a little more, (and since I’d been missing drawing so much) I was inspired to do a bit of materialistic doodling myself, Bingaman-Burt style.
