Here’s a nice tune and even nicer ani­ma­tion by Les­ley Barnes. Belle and Sebastian’s song, I Didn’t See It Com­ing has been remixed by Richard X, with Les­ley cre­at­ing a music video to accom­pany (see where I have writ­ten about her pre­vi­ously on Brown Paper Bag!). I love the facets of Lesley’s ani­ma­tion — the ...

Is Colonel Windpipe’s Musi­cal Brigade the new Sar­gent Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band? I don’t really know, but this ram­shackle band is the child of Les­ley Barnes and uberkraaft. What was first a col­lab­o­ra­tion between the two artists have now been call­ing forrecruites! Small groups are invited to par­tic­pate and post on the Brigade’s Flickr ...

The Happy Jour­ney Col­lec­tive is recently launched project from a num­ber of tal­ented artists and illus­tra­tors. the idea being that you design your own cof­fin. It could be con­sid­ered mor­bid, but the con­cept has really pro­duced some great results. The Happy Jour­ney Col­lec­tive was con­ceived via Twit­ter, dur­ing a con­ver­sa­tion between Thereza Rowe, Les­ley Barnes, ...

Seven Lit­tle Houses is a col­lab­o­ra­tive ani­ma­tion between Thereza Rowe and Les­ley Barnes about count­ing to the num­ber seven. I really love both Thereza and Lesley’s styles, and am excited to see them col­lab­o­rat­ing on an ani­ma­tion together. Both have such a won­der­ful sense of color and shape, and have cre­ated dar­ling char­ac­ters that are appeal­ing ...

Les­ley Barnes is not only an artist that dons the same last name as me, but she is an animator/illustrator liv­ing in Scot­land. Her “images” (as they are called on her web­site) are full of shapes and color. Her work reminds me of vin­tage illus­tra­tions and a style akin to the 1940–1950-1960. Mary Blair comes to ...