Archive for June, 2011
Thursday Thinking: Works on Paper
Patterns and patterns and patterns oh my! A new discovery on I Heart Prints and Patterns by UK textile designer Eloise Renouf. Love the simplicity and balanced composition. Do you want to make the Worlds Smallest Postcard? Well – here’s how. It’s genius! It’s Complicated from Anthony Zinonos. His work is so minimal but at the [...]
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Hearts from New York. And whales.
Sometimes beautiful art walks right in and that’s what happened last week when Bay Area artist Madison Lloyd walked into the hubby’s frame shop and introduced herself. A graduate of BYU and an incredible master talent in portraiture – Madison offers compelling pieces with soul and heart. I like whales. Simple…uncomplicated. I especially like this linocut whale [...]
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Pride and Palm Trees
My husband and I started out singing the news in an Ethel Merman / Carol Channing style this morning. Neither of us can sing. It’s going to be one of those days I think. We laughed so hard my coffee almost came out my nose – it was that funny! But seriously (or not). This [...]
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Tuesday Tumble
Is it vacation time or what? From Pease Blossom Studio the cutest vintage camper ever. And what would summer be without palm trees? This is the first one in a series of paintings I am doing called The Palm Project. My goal – a palm painting a day. This one is called On Golden Palm [...]
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Thursday Thinking
TWO IS BETTER THAN ONE I’m in a quandry – this adorable cafe or the camel ride? From Lorraine Rodriguez on Flickr. Weekend Advice. From John Waters. Utterly grossed out or completely captivated? I’m captivated. Brains in a Jar from Kiva Ford on Etsy. The work of Lidor Wyssocky is always compelling and alternatively haunting. [...]
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Totally Tuesday
Lotta Nieminen – where do you come up with these brilliant designs?? Oh Alice Potter – not only do you have a great name…but these birds are pretty amazing too. Another letterpress marvel from Cape Town artist Skinny laMinx (no – probably not her real name but it works). You know how the internet is [...]
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an explosion of graphic design and cookies.
A colorful Collection of Cookies. This poster on the Hinydesign site is dreamy and delicious. Via Colorful Daydream. I just pinned this to my Book Love Pinboard on Pinterest. (wow – say that five times really fast). Via Kate Gabriel. Is it just me or are we seeing a lot of aqua and red living harmoniously [...]
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If I could sing….
…I would be singing “the sun will come out tomorrow”…only it would be today because after weeks of rain and yucky …really yucky weather the sun has truly come out. I feel my creative juices flowing. Yes. I have been searching for new artists to publish as posters for a local publishing house and I’ve [...]
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LetterPress and Something Restrained
Letterpress rocks. Love the clean lines, simple straightforward colors and complete lack of pretentiousness yet true dedication to a pure art form. And here from Green Chair Press we have letterpress prints. This one is called a Madness Well Restrained. A perfect title and a perfect piece in a 16×20 format. Things that make me [...]
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