Wednesday, December 19, 2007
WHALE OF SORROW
I’m in charge of illustrations on The Daily Telegraph’s opinion pages, which basically means wandering over to our team of artists and providing a story outline. These guys are Australia’s best, so no extensive directions are required, but sometimes it’s fun to throw them a precise-but-weird request—just to see what happens.
Yesterday, to illustrate an article by Samantha Williams, I asked artist Tom Jellett: “Give me Hello Kitty as a whale.” A few hours later ...
Beautiful.