New Year

I hope you all have a great New Year 2010. I found this wonderful image at Julia's Flickr she has wonderful collections of retro objects and vintage books that I know many of you would like.

Philip Kirk

Wonderful whispers of illustrations with remnants of text, Philip Kirk is painter, print maker and artist from Iowa.

Timothy Karpinski

Above: He's a Moth She's a Butterfly
Below; Family Tree

Below 'I'm writing you a love letter'

This is the delicate beautiful work of Timothy Karpinsky I love his style, pallet and his ideas, he has some wonderful work for you to see. Timothy as well as being a prolific artist also works as art director for Gnu Snowboards at Mervin Manufacturing. I hope you enjoy his work as much as I do.

Christine Bowen

Christine Bowen has a wonderful portfolio of work. Here are her Templenoe Hares, they have a wonderful fluidity of line, capturing expression and the transition of movement.

Paul Yates

'Spence's Donkey Lifter' by Poet, filmmaker and painter Paul Yates , from Belfast. I adore this painting of a man carrying Donkey, I love donkeys, and it reminds me of man handling our greyhound.

Catriona Stevenson

Catriona Stevenson a silversmith graduate of ECA creates work of beautiful clarity and clean design.

Popkraft

Just love the light and colour of these ceramics from Popkraft, Zekiah Heath. They are unglazed the colour is created through using tinted slips.

Snow Angels

Today there was a whole line of snow angels on a bank looking amazing. So Hine's 'Squid Snow Angel' caught my eye and made me laugh. Hine makes wonderful plush items and incredible Halloween outfits! I do love the creative way that she and many other talented artists introduce their creations to the world. Hine Mizushima's creativity has been in painting, illustrating and now plush and animation, enjoy.

Edwina Bridgeman

Edwina Bridgeman creates illustrative sculptures from the flotsam and jetsam of life; wire, tools, beach combings etc. images

Angie Pickman

Here are some examples of Angie Pickman's incredible patience and intricate work. Angie is a paper cutter, the tininess of the top cut is phenomenal and the central photo is a bee shadow puppet with movable parts, wonderful !

Christmas Wonder

Christmas was wonderful, I hope yours was too. Love this image from Tania Covo's Flickr it is an illustration from The Enchanted Forest by Gunnel Linde.

Happy Christmas

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The seventh magpie

Just wanted to share the beautiful work of Jane who's media include paint textiles and poetry.

Sam Cott

These figures are from Sam Cott's portfolio, it just occurred to me that they are like the scenes in the animated Paddington Bear, anyway Sam makes great things and has a lovely blog worth a visit.

Anastassia Elias

The intriguing work of Anastassia Elias who has created these miniature scenes in the middle of toilet roll tubes, the effect of the light down the tube is quite lovely.

Monica Indelicato

Love this fish, by the wonderful Italian illustrator Monica Indelicato.

Fish in the Bath, Illustrations by Viera Gergelova and Max Velthuijs

Above; Max Velthuijs Little Boy and the Big Fish

Above: Viera Gergelova illustration for Puf A Muf by Natasa Tanska
image from WillIf there is one book I covet it is The little boy and the Big Fish by Max Velthuijs, but I'm wondering if I just have a thing about fish in the bath.

Helger Aichinger

Oh dear! 'A journey around my skull's' series of neglected illustrators presented itself to me today. Here are two of Will's images of the Austrian illustrator, Helger Aichinger's illustrations from 'Jonah and the Great Fish' by Clyde Robert Bulla (Cromwell, 1970). Oh Dear! I've just ordered an Elephant a mouse and a flea...

Nevin Hirik

The top painting by Nevin reminds me of cut snowflakes. Nevin is an Australian painter based in Melbourne.

Marcus Walters

This Marcus Walters print is evocative of winter to me.
Last year at the park I listened and watched in wonder, as a swan on the pond pushed its way through the ice to the shore, the sound was amazing.
Marcus has some wonderful work prints and collages.

Jessica Quinn

Here is the incredible work of Jessica Quinn, Jessica is a textile artist who works with wool and plush, but I adore her line drawings and her fantastically strange and unique imagination.

Annika Sandin

The quality of the drawing within these embroidered works by Annika is strange as it is lovely, and they reminded me of Antony Xu Jin's illustrations.

Neil Farber

This picture by artist Neil Farber is called Tribe see more of his works on paper here;

Antony Xu Jin

A young Chinese illustrator who used to be an electrical engineer, these examples of Antony Xu Jin's work have the order and colour of Indian Miniatures, and they are appealingly other, if you know what I mean, anyway I think they are great.