June 8th 2010

I was out this morning for breakfast, and on the way home stopped to pick up a flower for our table at home. I bought a single peony from the shop down the street, got home, and put it in an old CROWN mason jar. I decided to take a couple of photos of it while it was fresh and beautiful. I placed it on the floor, and a very curious Dre came to check things out. He has a habit of drinking out of any container he can reach if it has water in it. He tried to fit his giant head into the mouth of this small mason jar, (with no luck).

Yesterday, Celine posted some photos and a link to the photo shoot she did with Nikole Herriott, (of her wonderful apartment), for Design*Sponge! Congratulations, Celine and Nikole! They're beautiful!

June 4th 2010

Ages ago, when Anthropologie opened in Toronto, I fell in love with a set of plates. They were knobbly, and naïvely painted, and pictured sweet animals, mushrooms and the Eiffel Tower; they were beautiful.

They're designed by a french painter named Nathalie Lété. I just found out that she was doing a live painting of Anthropologie's Fifth Ave. window, and they posted a video of it on Facebook. (She also did a series of hand-painted dresses, if you can believe it! They featured the dresses on Design*Sponge back in April).

I thought I was pretty familiar with her work, but the more I looked, the more amazing new projects I found! I think my favorite may be the window she painted for Usagi Pour Toi in Tokyo. Her painting is GORGEOUS. To watch her work is sort of hypnotic, because she's so confident with her brush strokes. Her colours mix effortlessly, into perfectly streaked hues. I included a video above of her working on the Tokyo window display; (and you can probably find the New York on Anthropologie's Facebook page).

June 3rd 2010

I stumbled upon an interesting project while looking up a video of Snoop Dogg baking brownies with Martha Sterwart this morning. (Yes, you read that correctly).

The work is by artist Catherine McEver. She embroiders on Wonder Bread. They look so pretty! I seem to gravitate toward "toast" artwork; (for example Robin Nishio's toast portrait of Anne Koyama, and Tibi Tibi Neuspiel's Assassination Portraits on Toast). Hmm, I'm beginning to see an odd pattern forming...

June 2nd 2010

I have some exciting news!

I've created some eCard designs for pingg.com and they're online today! To view the designs and create your own eCards and invites using some of my images, click on this link or the button along the side of this post!

June 1st 2010

It's June!

And it's still wonderful out. I feel so lucky.

Things have started to feel a tiny bit hectic, doing illustrations, and paintings for the upcoming show at Narwhal in July. I wish I could paint outside and not get dust in my oil paints. Oh well. I hear it's supposed to be cool and rainy this weekend, which will make it so much easier to stay inside.

A friend pointed out last night that Canadians are known for talking about the weather. A lot. I'd never heard that, but here I am, posting about the weather...

I'll post about some more art-related things soon. Like the new print design I'm working on! I should have something to show in the next couple of days, so stay posted!