I found the above and below images as I was reading an article about the declining birth rate in Europe and America in the New York Times (yes, I have a wide range of interests…).
They’re by Edward Del Rosario, a Brooklyn-based artist whose trademark seems to be scenes of distance and loneliness. Some of his paintings are a little scary and make me want to run for cover in something cuter, but I really do like these two from the NY Times.
Photo: Mark Renders/Getty Images, from NY Daily News
The NY Daily News has a great collection of photos from this weekend’s annual sea sculpture contest in Belgium.
This week on the Storque’s News from the Craft + Style Blogosphere, A Print-a-Day’s terrariums were mentioned (Stickers & Donuts was mentioned last week concerning our Renegade Craft Fair Prints post!).
Anyway, back to terrariums. Aren’t these cute? I also love A Print-a-Day’s downloads section. I’m definitely going to be coming back for more!
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Subtle Circle offers the kind of cool randomness I tend to enjoy, with updated collections of various kinds of arts from prints to t-shirts to — well, you can see for yourself with the list above.
Right now they’re offering four wilderness prints for $20 from the Wilderness Collection (see below).
And previously they’ve offered buttons, badges, and T-shirts (in The Cold Collection and The Beer and Skittles Collection) but they’re young, so more (I imagine) is to come.
Mostly, though, I enjoy their watercolor-inspired web-site, which is a refreshing change from all of the cold, hard type you see everywhere else (er, like here).
Just discovered the very artful blog of a freelance illustrator in Sweden. I love her moleskin notebook illustrations best. A few of my favorites below. (more…)
Tinyshowcase.com helps real people with real budgets (yay) own real art (even if it is sometimes kind of tiny). (more…)
There is no actual hose in this picture!!! It’s 3D sidewalk art by Julian Beever. More after the jump. (more…)
I was just devouring the “fashion” tag over at Indexed (which presents a humorous, daily graph on an index card every weekday) and found this one (above). Apparently, I range from colorblind to busy. (This post was contemplated in preparation for the coming post…)
(olive & oscar, 4″x8″ acrylic on wood)
Yes, I literally said “OMG, CUTE!” when I saw this painting over at Creative Thursday. And if you think this is adorable, just wait until you see her other paintings. She has a lot of them. She paints a painting every day. EVERY. DAY. She thought she was going to post her paintings every Thursday, but we at Stickers & Donuts know how blogging and posting can runaway with you… or you can runaway with it… or something…. Anyway, she’s got her own Esty store stocked full of cutie paintings for $35.
Okay, I apologize for the obsessive alliteration in my title, but the Frida Kahlo exhibit at the Philadelphia Museum of Art actually was fabulous and it’s only there until May 18th so you better run quick!
The paintings were, of course, spectacular (it was especially great to see Kahlo’s The Frame in real life because it has two layers — the painting and a frame of glass — that give the painting an effect and look impossible to see in these 2D renditions). But most exciting for me were the personal photographs of Frida Kahlo and her husband Mexican muralist Diego Rivera. The expression Frida makes in these photos — straight and stoic — is similar to the face she makes in most of her self-portraits.
“These photographs—several of which Kahlo inscribed with dedications, effaced with self-deprecating marks, or kissed, leaving a lipstick trace—pose fascinating questions about an artist who was both the consummate manufacturer of her own image and a captivating and willing photographic subject.”
The exhibit and museum aren’t cheap (you’ve got to buy tickets both to the museum & special timed tickets for the Frida exhibit itself), but if you do it right you can save a few bucks. Check out the Frida Kahlo ticketing page for information on (more…)
