Katherine Dunn

Artist, illustrator Katherine Dunn's works reflect her passion for animals. Katherine's works are redolent of Chagall but also have lots of American folk art references. I love her colours and compositions, she has a vast portfolio for you to enjoy.

Lilla Jizo

Simple and wonderful, this is work by Petra of Lilla Jizo who is based on the west coast of Sweden. Petra uses found sea glass and sea ceramics to create these talisman or amulet's.

White Owl Porcelain

Loosing something on etsy is like loosing a button on a beach, and I had momentarily lost these owls this morning, but thankfully I had bookmarked them else where. whiteowlporcelain on etsy create these beautiful monochrome owls that have a Scandinavian like quiet style, I think they are wonderful.

Eszter Schall

Eszter Schall's work has so many wonderful qualities. I love the colours, the surface fluctuations in tone and the wonderful calm, happy illustrations. Eszter is a graphic designer and illustrator from Hungary "Whenever I create things it makes me happy, and I hope that when people see the things I create, they feel that happiness too."

Helen Dardik

Today I wanted some Monday morning colour from Helen Dardik graphic designer textile designer and blogger extraordinaire.

Sunday's are for playing with the cat

Freya is sick today, but we have had great fun making cat boxes for Bellissimo. Quite therapeutic too, making a cat that is sooooo evil (scratchy and bitey) look funny.

Andrew Rae

It is not a very happy moon, but I love the texture of its surface, and for me, the moon is winter, it is the main light, and we have more moon shadows than sun shadows. This piece is by Andrew Rae and I found found it at the wonderful 'Colours of life'.

Grivemune

French artist Grivemune makes these fantastical and
surreal pictures starting with a ground of tea stained paper. I haven't used this technique for ages and Grivemune's work reminds me of how much I like methods where the materials dictate (to a certain extent) the composition.

Olya Leontieva

Some of Olya Leontieva's illustration work, (I can never resist a fish in a bath). You can see more of this young artists work at her flickr and her website she works in drawing and painting and collage and has some very interesting sketchbook work also.

Heysu Lee

Heysu Lee manages to transcribe all of those odd funny thoughts down into art, whether it be an illustration, zine, embroidery, painting or sculpture. She creates magic and fun, taking inspiration for fortune cookies and walks in the park. Currently living and working in New York Heysu was raised in Korea, she studied illustration in London.

Thursdays ...

Thursdays are usually very, very hard for me, a day of difficult classes.
Yesterday's teaching however was just fun. I showed the group stills of the Romanian bride in Nuja Jone and then we started painting and applying sequins and glitter with egg white. Creative engaging fun, just what we needed, and lots of happy, strangely coloured faces.

Kan Fukuda

I love this bright work by illustrator Kan Fukuda. (Thanks)

A M Victoria Ladefoged

Fashion designer and artist A M Victoria Ladefoged made these wonderful dancing figures from wood and metal for 'trash:Formed' at the Danish Museum for Art and Design in 2009. These were exhibited as part of a group exhibition of Re:Something a design group set up by A M Victoria Ladefoged.

Ana Gantuz

Ana Gantuz is a young Argentinian painter and illustrator who's work is alive with pattern, this one is called garden, and it is my favourite from this young artists portfolio.

Gustavo Aimar II

Gustavo Aimar also creates beautiful kokeshi and matryoshka, three dimentional illustrative sculptures.

Gustavo Aimar I

I cannot believe that I have not blogged Gustavo Aimar's work before, I am sure this is a mistake, as I have admired it for so long. Anyway my first post in Gustavo's work has to be the almost 'by the by' creativity that inhabits his studio, small happy creations that brighten your day, just what every studio needs.