Victorian Die Cuts

I love Victorian die cuts, of course. But these are just so good....Look at the guy in the wild hat!! Wow...

This little collection was put together by Ginny Branch Stelling, of the blog My Favorite Color is Shiny.

Gracia & Louise

The collage creations of Gracia Haby and Louise Jennison...






The two artists from Melbourne are the publishers of zines and books,
spotlighting their compositions of curious and colorful things.
Their art is the visual equivalent of marzipan.

LOVE!!!

(Even more on Gracia & Louise's Flickr page.)

Ten Great Years

I love this clever Beatles poster by illustrator Max Dalton. I've been holed up in my new office the past few days and I've been thinking that it would be nice to put some colorful (yet inexpensive)
art on the walls.

This might be perfect! Any suggestions for cool office art?

Monet wows Paris once more

Hello my dears. Happy Tuesday. If you have a moment today, check out the Michael Kimmelman's Critic's Notebook in the New York Times. Kimmelman, the Times' brilliant art critic, reviews the Monet show that just opened at the Grand Palais in Paris. He calls the exhibition "ravishing." The same word could be applied to Kimmelman's gorgeously written piece, which reminds me of why I can't live without the NYT on my doorstep daily.

"Poor Claude Monet. Like white noise, he's everywhere and invisible, the staple of countless dentists' offices. Old hat for more than a century now. Is it too late to recapture some of the shock and thrill that caused horrified Parisians in the 1870s to perceive his work as 'leprous'? " the critic asks. "Amazingly, no, it's not."

I really want to see this show!

(Monet's self portrait, above, via Art Prints on Demand.)

David Hockney's iPhone Art Obsession

Lawrence Weschler, the Director of the New York Institute for the Humanities at New York University, has a brilliant story in the Oct. 22 issue of the New York Review of Books. It seems Weschler's friend, famed artist David Hockney, is obsessed with making art -- via his Brushes application on his iPhone.

(Witness above!)

Weschler explains: "Over the past six months, Hockney has fashioned literally hundreds, probably over a thousand, such images, often sending out four or five a day to a group of about a dozen friends, and not really caring what happens to them after that. (He assumes the friends pass them along through the digital ether.) These are, mind you, not second-generation digital copies of images that exist in some other medium: their digital expression constitutes the sole (albeit multiple) original of the image."

I want to be on that email list!

(Hockney art via the New York Review of Books).

City of Dionne

Hello! It's Lindsey with a GreatFull day again.
Don't you think there are so many great things about this super connected cyber world we live in? I think the best perk is the opportunity to meet inspiring, creative and super sweet friends with the click of a mouse.

This happened to me a couple weeks ago when I was matched up in a blogging swap with the wonderful, Dionne. Eager to learn more about her I perused her blog which led me to her Etsy shop. Not only are our personalities similar but our artistic tastes too! Her shop features the loveliest illustrations. I wish I could find a spot for each one in my home...it's as if I comissioned each one for myself!

Take a look at these beautiful pieces from my new friend. I'm pretty sure they'll make your heart happy!

And if you need more pretty. Take a look at some photos from her gorgeous wedding last year...

Have you met a kindred spirit via the blogosphere? Do tell!

Colour Lover: The Deluxe Edition

I run a Colour Lover series on my blog every Monday. Colour Lover is an online community for people who LOOOOOOOOVE color. Colour Lovers create color palettes just for the heck of it. They also create wallpaper patterns from these very color palettes and share them with everyone.

The beauty of Colour Lover is that you can sample and extract colors from any image. That's what I do in my Colour Lover series -- I sample colors from a single photo every Monday, just for the heck of it. Today's Deluxe Edition features not just one, but five images, paintings from my favorite artists: Chagall, Monet, Boticelli, Renoir, da Vinci. Please note that the color palettes for La Promenade and Mona Lisa were created by fellow Colour Lover, Ruecian.

I hope you enjoy these! :)