Bird Brain

No no no no I'm not insulting them by calling them bird brain, that's actually the name of their illustration team. Trust me it sounds waaay better in spanish " Cerebro de Pajaro" (suh-reh-bro  the Pah-hah-roh).

Anyway "Suh-reh-bro the Pahh-hah-roh" is formed by two very talented Mexican (yay-yuh represent!) Illustrators Tania Juarez and Carlos Velez, who work with different mediums from watercolor, color pencils to digital art. What I love from their work? very simple I love their color palettes, the collage and sketch effect they add to their illustrations, the sense of storytelling in each work and the warm fuzzy feeling it gives me when I see their happy beautiful illustrations

To see more of their work visit their BLOG and their DEVIANT ART, you won't be sorry. 

Pictorial Webster's: A Visual Dictionary of Curiosities

Ah here comes the first "From My Library to Yours" Post of the year *Drum rolls*
THE PICTORIAL WEBSTER'S :A Visual Dictionary of Curiosities by John M. Carrera.
I first heard of this book when a friend posted this video in facebook:

Pictorial Webster's: Inspiration to Completion from John Carrera on Vimeo.
From the discovery of the 1898 International Dictionary to linotyping the entries to printing the last print on the vandercook to cutting the fingertabs of the deluxe edition, this video gives a quick overview of the process of creating the Pictorial Webster's fine press edition.

Then one of my favorite publishing company Chronicle Books Published a trade version, the one I will share some peeks today. If you are a lover of books, illustrations, antique, design, research, the vintage, stamps, and little curiosities then you must get this book, is a wonderful source of inspiration.

You can buy it HERE

Thank you John M. Carrera.

A Bit of Po-luv-roid.

So today morning I went to the Mexican Consulate to get my passport renew and ready to travel. YESH! now I just have to get my visa to be able to be in Geneve, Switzerland. :) Anyway After I was done I hopped happily to the Houston Museum of Natural Science, because I was in museum loving mood. There I try my Fuji Instax, to see how it does in inside shooting, I was limited at to what to shoot, since the flash can't be turn off manually. So here it is some Polaroid luvin':

A pirate who was after my heart. yo no no no

Giant Bugs, every girl's dream come true yay!

"Ma'am no flash por favor"

Yeah swordfish can fly

wow

favorite picture <3

I of course did some random sketching of two shells and some people eating at the museum's Mcdonald:

PEOPLE!

Oh and yeah prewtty shells.

Look! Look! First post of the year 2011.

Happy Late New Year!


I'm so happy to be back blogging, it means my life is starting to finally calm down a bit, and I can finally pamper my blog. As you can see a huuuuuuge change happened to my blog. The reason behind this is because at first Ecollustration was meant to be a blog about being green and recycling. Through time I began to notice that it started to shift into other areas as well. So I decided to make it my personal blog, where yes I will still talk about being green but will also talk about other things I love like books, illustrations, watercolors, illustrators, projects and traveling. :).


Anyway I got me a new pocket watercolor sketchbook, since my old one is starting to get heavy from the collages, pictures and cutouts I put in there( so it has become the stay-at-home inspiration sketchbook). 


Here it is!
(A big THANK YOU to my cousin Katarina who made my name for me awwwww)

My new baby :')

Also I finished my Sketchbook project in time! I chose the theme "It's Raining Cats and Dogs" Here is a preview.

The Cover

yay!

ANNOUNCEMENT!

The Blog will be back running smoothly January 17 2011!
As you can see the name has changed to ByRominaPerez, so don't forget to update your bookmarks to http://byrominaperez.blogspot.com


See you all soon!