Instant inspiration

As soon as I click in on Papya Art, I knew I liked it. Papya Art was founded by a mother/daughter team. I love their credo:

CREATIVE ABANDON
Creative Abandon is our credo. To us it means that we ultimately answer to our creative impulses. We believe in a no apologies policy of artistic & manufacturing experimentation. We will always make paper giveables AND we may just throw a shower curtain into the mix at any time! So be alert. PAPAYA! is a place for exploring, discovering, and enjoying a myriad of goods. It is our goal that you be just as surprised and delighted as we are. It also means we won’t be making anything just because “it sells”. Our promise to you is that everything we make - we love.

So here's a splurge, mostly giclee prints from their decor department, but I am also throwing in two pictures of their wrapping paper.

Vintage Resource

I am just having too much fun playing with the images posted at The Vintage Moth. A blog where you can find old images, and go creatively nuts making art for you home, or perhaps a beautiful card for someone you love.
I would like my collage transferred to a china mug or a vase.

Elephants

Elephants are on my mind these days, so I had to do a drawing. I used a picture of some colored masking tape as my palette. The text reads: Three elephants came marching ... along the spiders fine web. From a childrens song.

Be Yourself

I was inspired by this quote on Spagats blog, and I did my own interpretation of it in Photoshop.

– Be yourself. Everyone else is already taken.
Oscar wilde

Illustina

Illustina is a norwegian illustrator. I like her naïve style. I am very interested in portraits, so I am showing two of hers here. Wonderful!

Watercolor delight!

Watercolor and drawing is fun. Check out illustrator Toril Bækmark's work! Beautiful and elegant, with wonderful colors.

Lovely drawings & watercolor from Sweden

Swedish Nina Johansson teaches art and computer graphics. She post her drawings on her blog. And on her website you can even browse her entire sketchbooks. She carries with her wherever she goes, and once they are full of drawings and watercolor, she publishes them for you to enjoy!

Jill Bliss

Gorgeous, floral patterns and drawings. These designs and notebooks are so fresh and the details are beautiful. Sweet spring!

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Jill Bliss

Owl and cat

These owl and cat collages are so cool. Crafted by danish designer Sidsel Gaustadnes at Spagat. Love it!

Nathan Fowkes Art

Nathan Fowkes is a Visual developement Artist at DreamWorks. He says: "My day job is at DreamWorks woking in photoshop so I spend as much time as I can outside or at home in the studio sketching with traditional media."
– Great inspiration!

Flower

Love is the only flower that grows and blossoms
Without the aid of the seasons.
~Kahlil Gibran

I'd rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my neck.
~Emma Goldman



Painted by Anne Olaug Soleng nov '07

Illustrator John Hendrix

I was in the virtual gallery at www.iamny.org, where I read John Hendrix' notes from their conference. His notebook is a true inspiration. Hendrix seems so focused in his expression and style.