Artists often over cook things. I guess it’s hard to know when a piece is finished when you don’t exactly know how it started and what you’d hoped for.
Cat Sims’ intricate line drawings allow the viewer to play paint-by-numbers with their mind… once they’ve worked out what exactly it is that they’re looking at. Birds [...]
posted: March 28th, 2010 |
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Isn’t it great when you find out that your friends are up to wonderful things. Not that I knew Polly that well, she was more like a friend-of-a-friend when I was in Melbourne. I always thought she was mighty friendly and had a lovely smile and a very geometric haircut – for a girl.
Anyway, [...]
posted: March 23rd, 2010 |
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This is how i feel during brainstorms. maybe 10 times a minute as my mind races to think of a good idea, only for the realisation to dawn that it’s already been done. better than i could have done it. slap.
image found on deviant art, created by mysticmaud
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posted: March 23rd, 2010 |
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We love it when people get in touch with us and our little website. We especially love it when those people are creative types who make amazingly wonderfully beautiful creations that just make us burst with smiles.
Shen Plum is one such creative peep. I guess I was captivated by the simplicity & narrative that she [...]
posted: February 24th, 2010 |
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Lady Worthington and I were meandering around Hoxton Square, when we were transfixed by some of the most intricately detailed and entrancing large-scale pencil drawings we’d seen. Upon further investegation, we assertained that we’d not only stumbled across an exhibition by the immensely tallented Kate Atkin but were lucky enough to be talking to her [...]
posted: December 22nd, 2009 |
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It’s been a day of joy for me. first I recieved a lovely postcard from Shoreditch illustrator Mr Bingo, and I found an email from another lovely illustrator who goes by the name of Monsieur Cabinet!
Does anyone have a real name anymore!? (*raises fists to the sky*)
I really like Monsieur Cabinet’s work. super simple. super [...]
posted: December 15th, 2009 |
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A illustrator and fashion student, Niki Pilkington creates lovely drawings – highly skilled and finely crafted, creating a neat juxtaposition between their visual effect and stereotypically ditsy ‘fashionista’ subject matter and the humble medium of a blue Bic biro.
“I felt that using a ball point pen would keep the portrait simple and more about what [...]
posted: December 7th, 2009 |
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