Brooklyn Illustrator Turns Classified Ads into Art
By AAN Staff
september 30, 2009 10:45 am
Sophie Blackall uses "Missed Connections" ads from Craigslist and the
Village Voice as source material for her "playful prints using Chinese ink and watercolor," the
New York Times reports. "I lost about two hours of my life reading them and thought this is just an extraordinary mine of material, ranging from the lyrical, poetic to unintentionally hilarious," she says of the ads. "Many of them threw out ideas for images to me right away." Blackall, who compiled the work on
a blog earlier this year and has opened an
Etsy shop, says she's also negotiating a book deal for the illustrations.