The Doyle Diary

Facsimiles of the sketchbook / dairy of Charles Altamont Doyle, father of Arthur Conan Doyle. During his stay throughout 1889 at Montrose Royal Lunatic Asylum in Scotland.

"Keep steadily in view that this Book is ascribed wholly to the produce of a MADMAN. Whereabouts would you say was the deficiency of Intellect? or depraved taste? If in the whole Book you can find a single evidence of either, mark it and record it against me." - Charles Altamont Doyle, 8th March 1889. (Pencil annotation, top left, frontispiece)

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The Last Great Conan Doyle Mystery: With a Holmesian Investigation into the Strange and Curious Case of Charles Altamont Doyle By Michael Baker. (1978 Paddington Press UK)

Artist We Love Erika Altosaar

Montreal-based artist Erika Altosaar ,is a very talented multidisciplinary artist, her  art is amazing  full of inspiration , its simply  drive you away from reality and let you  fall deep with imaginations and dreams .

 I really love her work using coffee filter . The filters give a nice texture to her drawings as well as a subtle coffee stain tint,It’s also nice to see someone working on a material which was not intended for this use

Erika's  recent printed project was L’Étranger , an unbound tabloid portfolio of 12 drawings ,printed on 35# newsprint, each copy is numbered by hand and devliered in a clear protective sleeve.
you can order it online at Brown Griffin

my favorite of the artist work