Pets In The Post IIII (Stick Insects)

Here are some stick insects that are my newest 'pets in the post' for Tim. I am away now, have a fantastic July/August where ever you are, I will be back on the 14th. X X X

Pets In The Post III (Spider)

Small Parisian pet for Maral.

Pets In The Post II (Mice)

Mice, mice, mice. Sally's mice are so happy they are having babies!

Pets In The Post (Birds)

Pets have been put in the post, to people who I wanted to give a pleasant surprise to (starting with Pip). I have been having fun and stretching my imagination, to try to fit the right pet to the right corespondent, these were for Alexandra. I think this is my summer project . . .

Miki Sato

Top: Lucky Clover, Middle: Trail, Below: Nail Biter
Lovely work from Miki Sato, an illustrator working and living in Toronto. Her images are created by layering different surfaces and textiles to create delicate collage illustrations, found here.

Sam Keshmiri

Sam Keshmiri is an Iranian artist. I especially love the simplicity of the top image, but the exuberance, colour and fun of Sam's work is wonderful.

Ilija Bosilj Basicevic

Why Alasdair's work has lead me on a winding path to Ilija Bosilj but it has been a great pleasure of a journey. Ilija Bosilj Basicevic (1895-1972) a fantastic self taught artist. If you have never heard of him you are in for a treat.

Alasdair Anderson

Above: Corvus Glovus
It has been on my mind for some time now that I wanted to share and document some work by the wonderful Alisdair Anderson. Pictured here is a piece from the private collection of a great friend of his and mine Annabel MacGregor. I love the humour, resourcefulness and creativity of this wonderful work, that Alisdair has created from lost, found and discarded treasure, especially the zips in the legs and beak.

Ingebjorg Smith

Ingebjorg Smith originally worked as an illustrator but now uses her talents as a painter of nature. I love these red shanks, her work reminds me of Mary Newcomb and Anna Pugh in its humorous observation and style.

Paul Bloomer

Above: Flight

Above: Ganets, Below: The Lamentation of the Fish Paul Bloomer lives and works on Shetland, though he is originally from the black country. His beautiful work has a great style, rhythm and use of colour.

If you don't get lost . . .

This seems a very suitable illustration by the wonderful Sergey Safonov. I am away for a week to relocate my baby gull, back soon, hope you have a great week everyone. x

Sara Carr

The lovely work of Sara Carr is bright, happy, calm, and wonderful quality. Sara has a folksy shop and etsy have a look at the wonderful things she makes.

Painting with Snails

It was wet here today, one snail crossed my path and one was hanging on to my cherry tree, the cherry tree climber is the artist. I once did this with my students, when I happened upon a boot full of snails on the way to class. No snails are harmed, just mix a tiny bit of food colouring in some water dip your snail and let it free on a nice piece of paper. It is great fun if you have a lot of snails, and a pallet of different food colours.

Midori Harima II

I just wanted to share Midori's amazing installation too.

Anna Wili Highfield

Anna Wili Highfield makes these wonderful pieces out of torn paper folded and stitched, her portfolio has a lot of birds and some horses in this medium. Anna is based in Sydney and is the daughter of a puppeteer.