Akumu Kurai

This drawing is very arresting in its composition and the gaze of the subject, quite beautiful work from Akumu Kurai, you can see many more works here.

Eunsil Chun

Eunsil Chun illustrations are spacious, light and airy, they create a whole word for your imagination to play in. Eunsil uses mainly watercolour and often reinterprets classic fairy tales giving them a very modern landscape and interpretation of the protagonists. Her work reminds me greatly of the Taiwanese illustrator Inca Pan.

Miga De Pan II

A pride of lion paintings from the wonderful Miga De Pan.

Miga De Pan

Miga De Pan's precision embroidered illustrations are just so perfectly beautiful. (thanks) Miga De Pan is Argentinian and likes drawing, embroidery and designing and has a very successful line in home accessories.

Marta Ignerska

Illustrations from Marta Ignerska's Alphabet book where she collides two styles, tight detailed pen drawing and loose flowing painted letters.

Isidro Ferrer IV

My last post on the fantastic Isidro Ferrer is from his book Creat-tu-circo a book of circus characters that you can make, fun for the weekend.

Regina Alexandra

Regina Alexandra created these quilted “Faces”. Regina Alexandra is a former graphic designer and art director who has changed her artistic production into quilts and photography. (Thanks)

Sticks . . .

Here are a selection of Isidro Ferrer's wonderful drift wood and inglenook (or witch) stone skeletons from a variety of his books.

. . . and stones

He was illusive but hopefully no more here are the fantastic stone illustrations of Isidro Ferrer for his book 'Piedra e piedra' he is an artist who covers so many genres illustration, sculpture, assemblage, animation . . . and his works are just so wonderful, they swell my heart.

Anita Cella Celic

This is the collage / paper cut work of Croatian artist Anita Cella Celic, I think it is really unique and very beautiful.

Ben Shahn II

Illumination by Ben Shahn.

Ashley Goldberg

I love these birds by Ashley Goldberg primitive and beautiful, they remind me of traditional Indian paintings or birds on Persian tiles.

Ben Shahn

I have just found the work of Ben Shahn (1898-1969). I love his graphic style, he made beautiful line drawings like the bird pictures above but he also produced many illuminated manuscripts. (images).

The eyes have it . . .

Below: Picasso Owl with collaged eyes. Above Brians faces with collaged eyes.

I started face books with some of my students today, first printing covers with a big face drawn into polystyrene pizza packaging. Then starting with circles trying to encourage the students to draw recognisable faces, then I remembered this owl by Picasso and started collaging features torn from newspapers, I love the results, now, to try it myself.

Ashley Goldberg

This is a wonderful new series of graphic prints of flowers by Ashley Goldberg.

"I strongly believe in what you're happiest doing at five is what you will be happiest doing your entire life. Growing up, I endlessly drew and embroidered onto washcloths that my grandma gave me little creatures and animals that I desperately wanted to live in the woods of my backyard. In my mind these creatures had tiny, magnificent, ornate lairs in the trunks of old trees (which I also drew, along with maps of how to get there). And although these creatures were elusive and shy, they always decided to befriend me. Over the years, my creatures have become decidedly more design-driven, put a part of me is still just drawing little friends to have." Ashley Goldberg

Neal Turner II

I Needed some bright spring flowers to start the week and I found them in Neal Turner's Flickr. This American artist in Paris has been exploring some new subject matter with still lives and portraits.

Oleg Bukharov IV

Not often (yet) that I publish four posts on one artist but I just love his works, and the fact that he photographs them when they are still dripping wet. Oleg Bukharov