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Thinking Outside the Bosch

Posted on February 2, 2016 by Victor Stabin in Blog, education, VSBlog-DaedalDoodle, VSBlog-Education
Newly Discovered Bosch Painting Image similar to Student work

While the world has been abuzz with reports from the Iowa Caucuses this week, I found the most exciting piece of news to be the discovery of a “new” painting (dated 1500-1510) attributed to Hieronymus Bosch. The painting had been in storage in a Kansas City Missouri museum and researchers came upon it as part of an effort to catalog and identify all his work before the 500th anniversary of his death in 1516. Bosch was an early Renaissance master known for his other-worldly figures and surrealism. The mind of Bosch was original, diabolical, and absolutely genius. Bosch was the original surrealist – predating Salvador Dali by 400 years. The newly attributed painting is called “The Temptation of St. Anthony,” and features the Saint filling a water pitcher at the edge of a creek.

What caught my attention was the detail of a small metal funnel – a surreal, swashbuckling character on the opposing bank. I had seen this before – or at least, something more than a little evocative of that image.

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Exceed Expectations: The One About Quality

Posted on October 21, 2015 by Victor Stabin in Blog, VSBlog-DaedalDoodle
Victor Stabin's ABC book Daedal Doodle does exceed expectations with the finest quality book construction: stitched binding, fold out pages, and thick paper

Despite years of art school followed by my long professional career as an illustrator, it became clear to me one of the biggest lessons I learned was from my father. He started his career in scientific instrumentation by doing research and development at Oak Ridge Tennessee, fabricating research instruments for the making of the Atom Bomb.

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Dictionary as Curriculum

Posted on June 5, 2014 by Victor Stabin in Blog, VSBlog-DaedalDoodle
Clare Cho's illustration of Ludic Lepus curpaeums

I had no idea my book’s first stop would be at Panther Valley High School–a school 10 miles from my home in Jim Thorpe, PA. It was the quintessential “There’s no place like home” Wizard of Oz moment. Seemingly out of the blue, I became part of the Allentown Art Museum’s Artist in Residence program, funded by the Pennsylvania Council of the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts.

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A Defining Moment

Posted on July 25, 2013 by Victor Stabin in Blog, multimedia, VSBlog-DaedalDoodle, VSBlog-Videos

Meet Victor Stabin in his studio through this video portrayal of his relationship with The Book. Not the Bible. The dictionary. Learn how he stumbled upon the words and images in the defining moment that gave rise to his award-winning book, Daedal Doodle.

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JFK Meets MC Escher at MIT

Posted on June 13, 2013 by Victor Stabin in Blog, VSBlog-DaedalDoodle

John F. Kennedy said “Artists do what they do and let the chips fall where they may.” A good moment is when I run into someone in the gallery who gets it from top to bottom. The best of these chips-falling-into-place moments came in the fall of 2009 when I met a Mr. X in my graphics gallery.

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About Daedal Doodle

Posted on June 13, 2013 by Victor Stabin in Blog, Daedal Doodle, VSBlog-DaedalDoodle
Daedal Doodle Second Edition

The book idea was a simple assignment, look up words that lent themselves to narratives. I combed through 8,000 pages of various dictionaries, looking for alliterative couplets that eventually became my wacky revue of improbable characters. Love for my daughter, for words and for drawing propelled me through this astonishing maze of implausible alliterative combinations.

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