{"id":1063,"date":"2017-07-20T21:54:14","date_gmt":"2017-07-21T04:54:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/trowzersakimbo.com\/blog\/?p=1063"},"modified":"2017-07-20T21:54:14","modified_gmt":"2017-07-21T04:54:14","slug":"forever-young","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/trowzersakimbo.com\/blog\/2017\/07\/20\/forever-young\/","title":{"rendered":"Forever Young"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Enjoying
“Enjoying California Treasures,” by Trowzers Akimbo for Children’s Hospital.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I love that Dylan song! It’s Bob at his best, raising\u00a0an\u00a0intimate toast\u00a0to an individual, he identifies all the challenges, pitfalls and fears we face throughout life and, possibly, gives criticism\u00a0to a youth who\u00a0dismisses all those older than herself. But that’s not what this post is about.<\/p>\n

I’ve been fortunate to have worn a lot of creative hats throughout adult life: tv graphic artist, print illustrator and graphic designer, animation director, game creative director and fine artist. Some of my favorite work has been aimed at children.<\/p>\n

\"Kid's
Cover for “Sesame Street Magazine,” by Bill Davis.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I love kids! Everyone says that, but I really mean it. They crack me up in a way adults rarely do. They’ve figured a lot of things out for themselves, often wrongly, but share this misguided information with love and confidence. Maybe I enjoy their company so much, because there is still much about me that is a child. I’m pretty good at being an adult too. I happily accept responsibility and deliver my best, when others are depending on me. I’m happy to share anything I’ve learned, but enjoy many of the same things children do.<\/p>\n

I love pure, non-local color. I want to paint things in the colors I choose, not necessarily the colors nature has assigned to\u00a0things. I’m also most intrigued with that\u00a0I’ve never encountered before, the first book in a new genre (I remember my ravaging my first Marquez book), a painter or illustrator with a new take on the everyday (VanGogh blew my mind, when I was 7 or 8 years old), new music, I mean really new, something I haven’t heard before. This joy in surprise is probably why I enjoy abstracting so much.<\/p>\n

\"Croak
Children’s style art for the “Tonight Show, starring Johnny Carson,” by Bill Davis.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

So, no surprise, I’ve always been attracted\u00a0to illustrated\u00a0children’s books. I love the anything goes<\/em> approach\u00a0in\u00a0the content and the often experimental illustration. I’ve been fortunate to create a lot of artwork for children. I illustrated a lot of text books and workbooks (the most fun), early in my career and was a monthly contributor to all the magazines produced by Sesame Street Workshop<\/em> in the ’80s.<\/p>\n

I was recently commissioned to created\u00a0a\u00a03′ x 6′ painting for Valley Children’s Hospital<\/em>, in Madera, CA. That painting led to orders from\u00a0multiple other\u00a0children’s hospitals for large gicle\u00e9 prints of the\u00a0earlier described work I created for kids.<\/p>\n

The work is living a second life. The best kind of life, one offering distraction and lifting the spirits of children and their families, if just for a short time, while they face the greatest challenges of their young lives. May you stay forever young!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I love that Dylan song! It’s Bob at his best, raising\u00a0an\u00a0intimate toast\u00a0to an individual, he identifies all the challenges, pitfalls and fears we face throughout life and, possibly, gives criticism\u00a0to a youth who\u00a0dismisses all those older than herself. But that’s not what this post is about. I’ve been fortunate to have worn a lot of … Continue reading “Forever Young”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[4,88,89,26,32,87,86],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/trowzersakimbo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1063"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/trowzersakimbo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/trowzersakimbo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/trowzersakimbo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/trowzersakimbo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1063"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/trowzersakimbo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1063\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1074,"href":"http:\/\/trowzersakimbo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1063\/revisions\/1074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/trowzersakimbo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/trowzersakimbo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/trowzersakimbo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}