Tina Loeffler

 

Tina Loeffler's works are folkloric and also have a uniquely asian visual language of both China and India, I found these works through her participation in the Our Planet Week Challenge.

Brad Hock

 

There is nothing that I do not love about this book, it is magical, funny and just creative joy. This is the second run of 1000 books published by Lore Game Books. 'How to bake a breadling' by Brad Hock for those in the Uk echos the gentle magic of Mackenzie Crook's 'Small Prophets' and has that soulful wonder and humour that brings a breath of joy. 

Beautifully produced, down to the endpapers, I cannot recommend this delicious book highly enough!

Kate Perrin IV

 

A sweet full moon from the sketchbook of Kate Perrin. 

Kalyani Ganapathy

'FOREVER FRIENDS! The Gods and their Vahanas' is published by adidevpress and written by Chitwan Mittal and delicately and lovingly illustrated with beautiful decorative details by Kalyani Ganapathy. 

Alice Barreras

 

Above: 'Trial of the Pantomime Horse' Below: “Guard the Fort, but Clockwise”

I love the almost medieval mythical madness of Alice Barreras's paintings often repurposing objects as canvases. 

 Above and Below: Étaín is a Beautiful Scarlet Fly (To Fuamnach's Dismay)

Petra Rodgers

 

Couldn't resist a second post of Petra Rodgers coloured pencil portraits of garments, this time her knitted vests.

Petra Rodgers I

 

Petra Rodgers makes wonderful studies of every day garments using coloured pencils on plywood, and I adore them.

Kirsten Sims

 

'Balthazar the Great' was the first book by Kirsten Sims, published 2017 by Orfeu Negro in Portugal.  ‘Balthazar the Great’ is a book about a violin-playing polar bear trying to find a safe place on the planet. He is freed from the circus by a group of activists and left in the middle of nowhere to find his own way home. Along the way he says goodbye to old friends and attempts to make new ones. He has to learn to fend for himself in a very big and often lonely world. Sometimes things work out well for him, but other times he gets overwhelmed by the journey.