Lois van Baarle 2009 Calendar

December 17th, 2008

I was awakened this morning by my older sister.

“Sharon,” she said as she entered the darkened recesses of my room. “You got a package in the mail. It was too big to fit in the mailbox.”

It took only a moment for me to register she was saying, and what I could possibly have received. It was too soon for my Old Navy order of my new checks to have arrived.

“Ooh!” I sat up quickly to meet the package in her profferred hand. A white cardboard envelope with the distinctive dA logo emblazoned on the top center. It was the calendar I had ordered from dA as a result of an email I received announcing a sale they were having on those items. I followed the link and scrolled the selection, thinking getting an art-themed wall calendar would be a good investment in my goal of becoming more organized. So, in the form of Parka Blogs, here’s what I got.

Lois van Baarle (loish.net) is a young artist whose work I’ve been following for a while. I really love her style and the textures she uses in her colors, where they look more like she used real rather than virtual media.

I was really impressed with the size of the calendar. It’s one thing reading the dimensions on the screen, and quite another seeing it in your hand.

I like it.

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