Multi-talented creative Andrea Shaw successfully ran a small business before dropping it all to follow a newfound passion – painting. Most of her pieces are pattern-based, influenced by maps and the Australian landscape and brought to life through gouache, acrylic, cut paper, pencil, spray paint, watercolor, wood, and glue.
Despite my best efforts not to, I somehow managed to get a sunburn this past weekend. (Whomp, whomp.) Clothing is irritating my skin like no other, so it’s been a lot of tank tops and workout shorts. Though I suspect the pieces in these pretty oils painted by Sherry Knutson would be much more comfortable!
A mixed bag of illustration projects from Venice, California-based Allison Kunath. The thing they all have in common? An underlying theme of connectivity, each one exploring different aspects of the word, such as connection to self, connection to others, and connection to nature.
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These bold, graphic pieces by Zin Helena Song just about jump off the wall at you. Well, at least they appear to even though they’re actually paintings on wood. The illusion of 3D is strong with this one.
Brooklyn-based illustrator and designer Abbey Lossing has such a fun style, I love it. A lot of her work comes from her day job over at BuzzFeed, but her best advice to artists trying to get out there is to “make lots of art and put it on the internet” and I have to agree. Pick up one of Abbey’s prints in her shop!
New Hampshire-based artist Michelle Morin creates the most beautiful watercolors inspired by imaginary worlds and narratives within nature. I especially like the way she so expertly layers the various elements and ends up with such harmonious looking works. As lovely as the real thing.
Carly Foulkes wears a few different artistic hats, and well, but my favorite is her dreamy collage work. Interestingly enough she never glues her work down, allowing herself to reuse pieces again and again. It all seems to fit together with a philosophy of constant change and evolution, just like in Carly’s work. Swing by her shop to scoop up a piece for yourself.
I’m often fooled into thinking a painting is a photo, but rarely the other way around. As much as I’ve seen of Mária Švarbová‘s pool-centric work lately, I never realized they were photographs rather than pigment on canvas until reading it on her site. Mária’s overexposed Swimm and Swimming Pool series feel downright unreal and otherworldly.
Kim Cogan‘s moody paintings, the captured moments of clustered architecture to be specific, feel oddly comforting. Can’t you just imagine being curled up behind one of those windows with a book and a mug of tea, or maybe your significant other and some wine?
