Showing posts with label illustration. Show all posts
Showing posts with label illustration. Show all posts
Thursday 5 January 2012
Thursday 29 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
Thursday 17 November 2011
Thursday 20 October 2011
Monday 17 October 2011
Thursday 29 September 2011
Thursday 15 September 2011
Thursday 8 September 2011
Thursday 25 August 2011
Thursday 18 August 2011
Thursday ♥ - artist's studio
Thursday 4 August 2011
Monday 1 August 2011
Not the critic who counts
Le ventre legislatif (The legislative belly) by Honoré Daumier, 1834
It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.
Theodore Roosevelt
"Citizenship in a Republic,"
Speech at the Sorbonne, Paris, April 23, 1910
Thursday 30 June 2011
Friday 1 April 2011
A Fool's Courage
"Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself."
~Charlie Chaplin
Tuesday 1 March 2011
Courage
"Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, I will try again tomorrow."
~Mary Anne Radmache, writer
Tuesday 8 February 2011
Inexpressible comfort
Postcard art, Leendert Jan Vis (♥)
"...the blessing it is to have a friend to whom one can speak fearlessly on any subject; with whom one's deepest as well as one's most foolish thoughts come out simply and safely. Oh, the comfort — the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person — having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all right out, just as they are, chaff and grain together; certain that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and then with the breath of kindness blow the rest away."
A Life for a Life, 1859, Dinah Craik, English novelist & poet
Wednesday 24 November 2010
Of elves, faes and dragon lairs
Know you of Elfwood? An online fantasy art community and the first online art gallery that I discovered. I remember bookmarking artists fervently and wishing I could draw as well as those amazing people. I think I submitted something once (you had to submit work for modulation before being allowed to join) but it got lost in the system. From Elfwood I then found openCanvas, deviantArt, and Etsy.
So you could say my web journey started from Elfwood.
One of my favourite artists from there was Stephanie Pui-Man Law of Shadowscapes. Her distinctive and lyrical style is so beautifully demonstrated in her watercolour pieces.
And then she started on a tarot deck project. I was ecstatic. Tarot art work is a pet love of mine, I find the way different artists interpret and portray the meaning of these cards endlessly fascinating. It's like collecting small pieces of art work. The Shadowscapes tarot deck has been over 2 years in the making and you can see why in the exquisite details of each individually illustrated card. All 78 of them.
You can't help going 'OOoooooo' and 'AAaaaahhhh'. ~♥~
All images ©Stephanie Pui-Mun Law
So you could say my web journey started from Elfwood.
One of my favourite artists from there was Stephanie Pui-Man Law of Shadowscapes. Her distinctive and lyrical style is so beautifully demonstrated in her watercolour pieces.
And then she started on a tarot deck project. I was ecstatic. Tarot art work is a pet love of mine, I find the way different artists interpret and portray the meaning of these cards endlessly fascinating. It's like collecting small pieces of art work. The Shadowscapes tarot deck has been over 2 years in the making and you can see why in the exquisite details of each individually illustrated card. All 78 of them.
You can't help going 'OOoooooo' and 'AAaaaahhhh'. ~♥~
All images ©Stephanie Pui-Mun Law
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