Monday, 21 September 2009

Esty FInd

Gah, check out this super duper cuteness found on Etsy...


This is Zelda Fitzgerald and she is a Deer Girl plush, curiously dreamt up and created by Trish Ans.... very cool.

Thursday, 10 September 2009

Shawn Barber

Since I'm on a roll talking about other people's art...

.... I am of the mind that I would actually kill for one of his paintings. I mean it, those are the lengths I would go to.


Photo from Arrested Motion

Check out how cool this guy is... even when painting nudy ladies (this one in particular is British tattoo artist Jo Harrision of Modern Body Art).

Shawn skillfully combines in a very classical style of painting, both his passions of art and the art of tattooing... that's too clever for words.

Know any other people that combine their biggest passions in this way?

Monday, 7 September 2009

Mmmm, art cravings

I have no idea what's come over me recently, but I've started to take a keen interest in investing in other people's art work and hanging it on my walls - as if you're meant to do anything else with it.

I guess it started with winning Brandi Milne's "pair of twos" - I was elated to have in my possession lovely work by someone other than myself... errr did that sound vain? It really wasn't meant like that... oh hell, you know what I mean!

So, my recent purchases are these prints from tattoo artist RabbitAbby's Etsy shop...





















They are reproductions of her flash inspired pen and watercolours - just gorgeous. She's an amazing artist and an incredible tattooist, go check out her site and be in awe at how good she is after what is considered a pretty short time in the industry.

Oh yeh, and I wish I never joined Etsy - I want to buy everything, and I mean EVERYTHING on there!!

Next up is this exquisite and wonderfully dark, but colorfully ironic piece from Ana Bagayan entitled Prey.




It made me laugh so hard when I saw it, I thought "Hell yeh!! That's it, you go mousey!" - me and my intellectual thoughts! I guess that's the whole idea about art - whatever the viewer makes of it, right?!

Ana's site is a feast for the eyes, check out and follow her blog too, I do.

Are you an artist that has a fetish for other people's art? If so, I wanna know about it.