{"id":1377,"date":"2012-03-22T23:36:14","date_gmt":"2012-03-23T04:36:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.catdoodles.com\/dailydoodle\/?p=1377"},"modified":"2012-03-22T23:36:14","modified_gmt":"2012-03-23T04:36:14","slug":"crazy-for-maira-kalman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.catdoodles.com\/dailydoodle\/2012\/03\/22\/crazy-for-maira-kalman\/","title":{"rendered":"Crazy for Maira Kalman"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1384\" style=\"width: 190px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1384\" class=\" wp-image-1384 \" title=\"The Maira Kalman New Yorker Cover\" src=\"http:\/\/www.catdoodles.com\/dailydoodle\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/maira.jpg\" alt=\"The Maira Kalman New Yorker Cover\" width=\"180\" height=\"247\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1384\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Artwork by Maira Kalman<\/p><\/div>\n<p>After Dad is done with his copy of <a title=\"The New Yorker\" href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">The New Yorker<\/a>, he leaves it out for Charlotte to enjoy. The sight of her reading this week\u2019s issue, with its fabulous <a title=\"Maira Kalman's Website\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mairakalman.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Maira Kalman<\/a> illustration on the cover, was one I couldn\u2019t resist doodling&#8230;and doodling&#8230;and doodling.<\/p>\n<p>So when Dad got up this morning, there were 4 doodles waiting on the breakfast table for him, with a request that he check off his favorite. (Poor Dad\u2014the guy has barely poured his first coffee of the day, and he\u2019s already being asked to play editor\/art director.)<\/p>\n<p>Below are the breakfast table versions (including Dad\u2019s pick, lower right); as well as one more I did this afternoon (at the top). What can I say? When inspiration strikes, I tend to like to milk it dry.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1378\" title=\"Charlotte Reads The New Yorker\" src=\"http:\/\/www.catdoodles.com\/dailydoodle\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/maira-new-640.jpg\" alt=\"Charlotte Reads The New Yorker\" width=\"640\" height=\"724\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.catdoodles.com\/dailydoodle\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/maira-new-640.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.catdoodles.com\/dailydoodle\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/maira-new-640-265x300.jpg 265w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1381\" title=\"Maira Kalman New Yorker Cover Doodles\" src=\"http:\/\/www.catdoodles.com\/dailydoodle\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/maira-composite-640.jpg\" alt=\"Maira Kalman New Yorker Cover Doodles\" width=\"640\" height=\"770\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.catdoodles.com\/dailydoodle\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/maira-composite-640.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.catdoodles.com\/dailydoodle\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/maira-composite-640-249x300.jpg 249w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>While I\u2019ve never met the divine Ms. Kalman, I\u2019ve admired her work for years, (as has Charlotte). If you aren\u2019t familiar with her fun and clever artwork, here\u2019s a direct <a title=\"Maira Kalman's New Yorker covers\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mairakalman.com\/newyorker\/\" target=\"_blank\">link<\/a> to more of her wonderful New Yorker covers. Enjoy!<\/p>\n<p>Happy Thursday night, night owls, and Happy Friday to all of you already in Dreamland (who won\u2019t be reading this until the morning). May we all have inspiring dreams\u2014and inspiring waking hours, too. (TGIF!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After Dad is done with his copy of The New Yorker, he leaves it out for Charlotte to enjoy. The sight of her reading this week\u2019s issue, with its fabulous Maira Kalman illustration on the cover, was one I couldn\u2019t &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.catdoodles.com\/dailydoodle\/2012\/03\/22\/crazy-for-maira-kalman\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[106],"tags":[7,138,193,191,562,192],"class_list":["post-1377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-artistic-endeavors","tag-charlotte-2","tag-fashion","tag-hats","tag-maira-kalman","tag-spring","tag-the-new-yorker"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.catdoodles.com\/dailydoodle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1377","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.catdoodles.com\/dailydoodle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.catdoodles.com\/dailydoodle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.catdoodles.com\/dailydoodle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.catdoodles.com\/dailydoodle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1377"}],"version-history":[{"count":24,"href":"https:\/\/www.catdoodles.com\/dailydoodle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1377\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1404,"href":"https:\/\/www.catdoodles.com\/dailydoodle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1377\/revisions\/1404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.catdoodles.com\/dailydoodle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.catdoodles.com\/dailydoodle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.catdoodles.com\/dailydoodle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}