Showing posts with label art. Show all posts
Showing posts with label art. Show all posts
Friday 16 March 2012
Of woodland sprites & ocean critters in rainbow colour
Allow me to introduce you to, if you are not already acquainted with, the wonderfully whimsical world from the imagination of May Ann Licudine, aka MALL.
She posts as frecklefaced29 on deviantART and I've been a fan for ages - many a times I've wanted to show her work on my Thursday ♥ features, but I kept delaying so that I could do a full post on it because I just couldn't choose only one piece.
An artist from the Philippines, her beautiful colour pencil drawings and acrylic paintings evoke the magic of cute spirit worlds with lanterns and Japanese festival masks, forest sprites and deep sea creatures.
I absolutely love her use of colour: every piece bursts with it. Oh and all the little details!
Her graphite and black and white pencil drawings are just as good with their soft and dreamy focus, and still, the details!
Visit her blog and gallery for more! ~*~
Thursday 19 January 2012
Thursday 12 January 2012
Thursday 5 January 2012
Thursday 29 December 2011
Thursday 22 December 2011
Tuesday 20 December 2011
Stephen Mackey
I first came across fine artist Stephen Mackey's work when I found a set of avatar icons featuring these illustrations from his Porcelina series of cards and prints. I love his soft and dreamy depiction of doll-like fairies and other creatures.
He has also published a couple of children's picture books, telling the stories of a little girl called Miki and her friends who live in an Arctic-like landscape of ice and snow.
His own, non-commercial, style of work is much darker in comparison, like classical paintings with a touch of whimsy and Victorian macabre.
Visit his paintings gallery for more!
He has also published a couple of children's picture books, telling the stories of a little girl called Miki and her friends who live in an Arctic-like landscape of ice and snow.
His own, non-commercial, style of work is much darker in comparison, like classical paintings with a touch of whimsy and Victorian macabre.
Visit his paintings gallery for more!
Thursday 15 December 2011
Thursday 8 December 2011
Tuesday 29 November 2011
Dissected porcelain
I really like this concept by UK sculptural artist Beccy Ridsdel. Called Art/Craft, she wanted to explore the debate of craft versus art, technique and function versus idea and meaning.
Installed like a surgical lab experiment, the outwardly ordinary pieces of bone china plates and mugs have been dissected to reveal beautifully ornate innards.
Beccy explains that the '... ‘surgeon’ is dissecting the craft object to see what is within' and that '..he finds craft through and through. He tries the experiment again and again, piling up the dissected work, hoping to see something different but it is always the same'.
Her thought was that by '...turning a table full of craft objects into an artwork in its own right, it had a point beyond the technique, beyond the things themselves'.
I'd argue though that the dissected pieces themselves also suggest how, at its core, craft has art running through it. Beautiful craft work is, in its own right, an artform. Take any piece of tapestry, hand embroidered wedding gown, hand forged sword...
Installed like a surgical lab experiment, the outwardly ordinary pieces of bone china plates and mugs have been dissected to reveal beautifully ornate innards.
Beccy explains that the '... ‘surgeon’ is dissecting the craft object to see what is within' and that '..he finds craft through and through. He tries the experiment again and again, piling up the dissected work, hoping to see something different but it is always the same'.
Thursday 24 November 2011
Thursday 17 November 2011
Friday 28 October 2011
The world's smallest letter
How can you not squeal in delight at the World's Smallest Postal Service's tiny letters? Lea Redmond used to take her mobile post desk around with her and transcribe letters by hand into insey winsey miniature form.
I love, love, love the attention to detail. The envelope has a tiny address (and return address!), special mini stamps, mini WSPS post mark and is closed with a teeny initialed wax seal, then packaged with a magnifying glass to be sent in a normal sized parcel.
Lea now runs a business sending tiny letters, cards and mini parcels everywhere from her website. You can even buy your own mini letter kit!
I am unashamedly a big fan of snail mail and a super geek of all things miniature so I'm probably biased on two fronts, but an email or text just can't beat the amount of time that goes into something like a tiny letter and the excitement of receiving something like it.
I love, love, love the attention to detail. The envelope has a tiny address (and return address!), special mini stamps, mini WSPS post mark and is closed with a teeny initialed wax seal, then packaged with a magnifying glass to be sent in a normal sized parcel.
Lea now runs a business sending tiny letters, cards and mini parcels everywhere from her website. You can even buy your own mini letter kit!
I am unashamedly a big fan of snail mail and a super geek of all things miniature so I'm probably biased on two fronts, but an email or text just can't beat the amount of time that goes into something like a tiny letter and the excitement of receiving something like it.
Thursday 20 October 2011
Saturday 1 October 2011
Survivor
October is Breast Cancer Awareness month.
I have been waiting to post about this porcelain doll handmade as a tribute to breast cancer fighters by Marina Bychkova of Enchanted Doll.
Titled 'Surviving', visit Marina's gallery to read the story behind this beautiful doll
I have been waiting to post about this porcelain doll handmade as a tribute to breast cancer fighters by Marina Bychkova of Enchanted Doll.
Titled 'Surviving', visit Marina's gallery to read the story behind this beautiful doll
Thursday 29 September 2011
Thursday 15 September 2011
Thursday 8 September 2011
Thursday 25 August 2011
Thursday 18 August 2011
Thursday ♥ - artist's studio
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