Everything is Going to Be All Right

(Everything is Going to be All Right print)

This is a great reminder for us all when dealing with our day-to-day-self-doubt stressed craziness. I saw this over at Design is Mine blog and had to share it. This awesome print is by Eva Juliet and available in her Etsy shop. She has quite a few great typographic prints and some very sweet illustration prints, like the one below.

La Vie est Belle Prints

This is another great one I saw and made me think of one of my dearest friends.

(Never too late print.)

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Thanks Frizz!

I was a lucky winner over at FrizzleStix last month. It was a wonderful surprise! How flippin' cute is this illustration. This is called Tea Cup Swan print.

She is super talented and sells her prints, rubber stamps, and fabric at her Etsy shop.

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A Book of Image Awesomeness!

(image from Amazon.)

I've been buying lots of new books lately. I LOVE receiving books in the mail. Most of them have been educational reads, but this week the new Print and Pattern book arrived and is one of my favorites. This book is packed with inspirational images of awesomeness! Delicious eye candy!

This awesome collection all started with Bowie Style's - Print and Pattern blog. I'm sure most of you know of this site. But if you don't, and love surface design or just like looking at wonderful artist's work this is the blog to bookmark.

I'm resisting the desire to add it to my bag every day when I go to my day job. I tend to over stuff my bag with books, notebooks, magazines, you name it. For now it is sitting right next my desk at home. :)

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Sunshine Award

I have been one lucky girl the last few months in this wonderful online art community. Several wonderfully talented blogging pals gave me a Sunshine Award. *blush*

Thank you, Lynn Alpert, Nina Seven, Julissa Mora , Deborah Mori for giving me this sweet award. :) Right back at you! I would like to share this with those 4 lovely ladies, as well as:

Sarah

Brad

Gingerbred

Flora

Mabelle

Sheree

Manola

Joy

You all bring a smile to my face with your wonderful art. Thank you and keep up the great work!

The award rules:

1. Thank the person who gave it to you.

2. Copy the logo and place in on your blog.

3. Link to the person who nominated you.

4. Pass it along to 12 other people.

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Petit Reve

A few weeks ago I received these two lovely prints in the mail from the super talented Sarah. I finally got some frames and the weather semi-cooperated (bright cloudy day instead of dreary dark rainy day) so I could take a photo.

A few months back, Sarah opened an Etsy shop - Petit Reve - to help save money for her daughter, Michel, to take a trip to France. Both, Sarah and Michel, create the art which makes for a wonderful variety and awesome style. I had a super hard time picking only two! Sarah has recently added brooches to her products and they are super cute!

Sir Hedgefield Hedge Hog just makes me smile.

(photo by Sarah.)

If you have a need for some awesome wall art (who doesn't, right!?) check out her Petit Reve Etsy shop.

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Fantastic Artist - Bombo!

Bombo!, aka Maurizio Santucci, is an illustrator + 3D artist I found via this Pikaland post.

Here are a few pieces below that I really liked. You should definitely go check out his site and see all his great work. Very inspiring!

Great textures and colors.

Such great line work and I love black and white illustrations.

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Illustration + Tangent + Inspiration

For a quick illustration tonight, I played around with using my mouse and brush to make shapes, instead of my usual pen tool in Illustrator. I'm wanting to start using my Wacom tablet in the near future, but I still find it so awkward. Baby steps. Okay, slight /tangent, but whenever I say "baby steps" I always think of What About Bob , have you seen it? If not, you should. Bill Murray is so funny!... /end tangent. :)

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Check out this talented illustrator I recently found in the March/April 2008 Communication Arts, Jessica Hische, great illustrations and typography. Tweet Follow @kellymedina

Samuel and Michael

Two talented illustrators with very different styles, but both are amazing and very inspiring. I hope you visit there sites and get as inspired by their work as I do.

Samuel Ribeyron - Wonderful artist, his work is so sweet and dreamy. He has a website and a blog.


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Michael Bartalos - Love his style! Site

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Kotori

How sweet is this? I love the music and everything about it. It's simply perfect!


By Yves Geleyn

Click here to watch the very short movie. He has a lot of other great work on his site, this was done in Dec. 2007. Tweet Follow @kellymedina

Laaaa

Very different styles, but both so fantastic!

Mary Blair illustrations I've been seeing Mary Blair's name popping up quite a bit on a few blogs, I looked her up and began to drool...eer sing! :)

Kirsten Ulve I found Kirsten Ulve's work quite a few years ago and recently found it buried amongst my other bookmarks - she has added a ton of new work and it is so vibrant and unique. Tweet Follow @kellymedina

Fantastic Artist - Melissa Moss

I recently came across a new artist that has such beautiful work that I wanted to share with my visitors, her name is Melissa Moss. The artwork is unique and beautiful, you can buy prints of her paintings at her site shop or Etsy shop. She also has a blog.




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