Yep – I think a combo of sushi, pizza, pretzels and tacos {with faces!} would conjure up a few unicorn sightings FOR SURE! Wash it all down with some milk, and I can guarantee a night filled with bizarre dreams, brought to you by the sketchbook of UK born, Brooklyn based artist Julia Pott. Love. So much.

Do you love old photos? Do you wish you could get one as a giant print to hang on your wall? Perfect… listen to this:

“PROJECT B specializes in a fascinating world: vernacular and anonymous photographs culled from the lively margins of history. We discover and preserve exceptional vintage photographs from unknown photographers and make them available in limited edition prints…. Our work is a culmination of more than 30 years’ experience in the fields of fine art, photography, folk art and material culture. By bringing together the best practices of collecting, curating and publishing, PROJECT B pays homage to the mysterious power of the anonymous photograph to transcend time and enhance the spaces we live in today.”

So cool! I want a 36″x36″ sea monster (very Scooby-Doo-esque) in my house!

I want to live here. Yep, right here, smack-dab in the middle of the weird & beautiful world of  Portland based artist Souther Salazar. These are all 5″x5″ drawings… well, drawings that happen to be created using watercolor paint, and just a touch of collage thrown in for good measure. If I did live here I’d always remember that guy this way. Plus, I’d have a tiny pet goat, a dinosaur that lived next door, and i would totally help my neighbor find his dog  ♥

{…thanks to Frances Marin for pointing me to Souther’s work}

I knew I liked this work by Chicago based artist Jennifer Yorke on first glance – the simple compositions on large fields of quiet paper. I bookmarked it, and continued on my busy way.

Several weeks later I had the time to go in and take a closer look… and sweet jiminy, look what I found! It was like digging up a mixed media treasure in my bookmarks list! Zooming in on each piece reveals the most ornate, beautiful detail ~ diamonds, caramel sauce, pink wigs, and what I’m quite sure is a quince dipped in honey. Gor.Ge.Ous!!!

{via curate1k ~ and if you’d like to purchase one of these beautiful pieces, you can find all of them over at cureeo.com}

Brooklyn based artist/illustrator Gabriella Cetrulo draws and paints… and occasionally she does both on white, circular ceramics that you can hang on your wall! LOVE! Now, normally I would not be a fan of having a pigeon on my head, but Gabriella actually makes it look like a pretty good thing! Speaking of good things, I hope we all have a weekend that looks a little somethin’ like this:

We all scream for ice cream! YAY! See ya on Monday.

{Thanks so much to my very sweet friend Amber Mahoney for sending me a link to Gabriella’s work}

Oh my, I’m seeing double – and I like it! This is a series, titled “Splitting Image”, by Melbourne based artist Bronwen Vaughan Evans. I just wrote about a printmaker on Tuesday and thought I might be working on a bit of a theme for the week…  until I read that these are gesso and oil paintings on board. HUH?! Amazing. Also amazing – Bronwen’s description of this show, and how she hung it {in two separate locations at the same time!}:

“This body of work explores the notion that our experience is mirrored elsewhere by other unknown persons. The works allude to the fleeting realisation that, in certain moments, we share a connection with strangers who are having a similar experience. Thus the show suggests a twinning of sorts and references the concept of a doppelganger.

The show consists of 30 pairs of paintings. While the paintings in each pair are essentially identical, the individual works do differ slightly. The pairs were split and exhibited in geographically separate locations. The two shows opened simultaneously, and the audience was made aware of the fact that there was another almost identical exhibition happening elsewhere, thereby actualising the feeling of mirrored experience.

The geographical splitting of the works also references the idea that while two people might be looking at exactly the same image, their perception of that image will differ, and one can never fully know the vision of the other.”

Oooh, so pretty! Line drawings partially covered in thick oil paint masquerading as flowers! This is the work of Toronto based artist Judith Geher, and I am completely in love with each one of these paintings. And guess what… they’re BIG! Most of her work seems to range between 48″x48″ to 60″x60″… sigh. Gorgeous.

{ps. There’s a really good interview with Judith on Frankie Magazine’s blog if you’d like to know a bit more about her}

You know what I’m going to say, right? Yes… I LOVE this project! LA based artist Ophelia Chong does all sorts of fantastic things {collage, letterpress, writing}, but it’s this series titled “The Love Cards” that has my heart beating a tiny bit faster:

“Printed on paint chip cards, I chose them by the name, if it related to LOVE, I printed on them. Gold and Silver ink with vintage engravings. Printed on a Vandercook Universal Press.”

Sigh… I love the image she used. I love the colors she found. I love the paint chip names. I love that she used gold and silver ink. I love the heart that says LOVE in it. Yep, that’s a lot of love. A LOT.

{Thanks so much to Cathy Cervantes, one of my long-time, very dedicated readers,  for sending me a link to Ophelia’s site!}

Oh my. Drawings. Crazy beautiful, meticulous drawings by New Orleans artist Robert Lansden. I didn’t know that a person could do this with graphite, ballpoint pen, and/or gouache… I thought that’s what Spirograph™ was for! {Am I aging myself with that reference? Probably.} Not only are his tiny little perfect lines beautiful, his colors & compositions are stunning. I thought I had my post when I found all of these mesmerizing circles… and then I stumbled onto these:

Drawings, people. Drawings.

{I found Robert when I sent out Facebook/Twitter posts saying that I had no one to be jealous of. Well, thanks to Erik Barthels, now I’m jealous of Robert… and to the other 82 [!!!] of you that sent in suggestions, THANK YOU! I’ll be thinking ‘damn, I wish I thought of that’ for the next two months!}

Whoa. Watercolor dots on paper. Just dots.

These gorgeous, and very clever, portraits are the work of New York based artist Nathan Manire. When you see them from far away {go on, get up from your computer and take about 10 steps back} they suddenly have shading, depth and detail… but up close they are just a bunch of lovely, washy dots. Just dots {that I completely love on their own too!}