David Easterly

Until the art classes begin and the dust settles on this move I am going to be a bit sporadic with my posts. I will get back in to the rhythem of three posts a week as we progress through February. Easy does it as they say but in the meantime...I stumbled across these intricate lime wood carvings by David Easterly through Elsa Mora's Blog which catalogues a huge range of interesting work by adults and children. It is hard to believe these are all carved in wood.

Lisa Golightly

we had our first scorching hot Summers day yesterday and many more to come, the holidays are just beginning and I am looking forward to it. I found these paintings by Lisa Golightly on the Jealous Curator and it pretty much sums up the feeling.

the livest 1

One of my friends Grant Cornett is a wonderful photographer who just happened to cross paths with Lou Reed awhile back. He keeps a great blog called The Livest 1 that you can lose your self in.

agence eureka

I can't remember how I found this collection of collections and my French has gone from scratchy to non existent so I can't find out too much about it, but if you want to lose your self in some beautiful graphic design collections covering everything from matchboxes to fonts have a look at Agence Eureka. I especially like the collections of the same images with slight variations.

kai samuals-davies

I really love these paintings by San Francisco based painter Kai Samuals-Davies. I recently bought a selection of beautifully printed cards from him and have them up in my room. I have been teaching myself oil painting this year its both wonderful and frustrating and I have a long way to go but that can be a nice feeling too.

it is ok to be smart

birch pollen

 crystal flowers

crystal flowers

Ooh I just found this great blog It's Ok To Be Smart all about science and interesting things which led me to this tumbler page for the FEI company full of beautiful images from under an electron microscope, makes you think doesn't it?

... it also confirmed why parasites gross me out

 head lice agghh...

hydrothermal worm ... nooooooo!

thankfully this one lives at the bottom of the ocean.

and speaking of jelly...

There must be some sort of jelly syncronicity going on I just saw these paintings by Arnout van Albada on the always reliable blog The Jealous Curator

Mr Finch

I saw these fantastic textile sculpture by Mister Finch today.  I found it through the blog of another textile artist who has a shop called Little Love Blue. And how amazing is that life sized image in the first photo?!

Jealous much?

Cindy Rizza

I am having a run of bad luck with blogs I love reading suddenly stopping posting. However one of my favourites is eternally reliable and I check it every morning and get a little inspired and a little jealous  in just the right way.

colour

Wow just got lost in this prism of amazingness. More crazy beautiful colour here.

Missed connections

Sometimes I feel like I am a total dud at finding things on the internet. There must be a world just out of my grasp full of all these beautiful inspiring things to discover, and then I realise all I am reading is celebrity gossip, and even worse than that I don't even know the celebrities anymore.

And then you hit upon a vein of gold and suddenly the world is alive. I found Catherine Campbell's beautiful illustrations and drawings through the Design Files. And then through her I found Sophie Blackall. And it all got me thinking. 

Thinking about so many things and pens and inks and past lives and one time when someone gave me the whale eye on the L train and it ended up in the missed connections section. Ah those were the days.

Elsita

There is a woman called Elsa Mora who creativity seems to explode out of like a dandelions seeds. I just got lost in here web for ages it's really worth a look. She has several blogs dedicated to different aspects of her work, her Miniature Artists Books and All about Paper Cutting are quite breathtaking as you can see.