Etsy Finds: Masterpiece Wardrobe
Sometimes picking out an outfit is like creating a work of art. Today's Etsy Finds show you how to get creative with your wardrobe. Add a bit of artistic expression to your daily wares with the following outfits inspired by original illustrations, paintings, collages and prints available from our many …
Handmade Weddings: Personalized Wedding Gifts From Fashion Illustrator Brooke Hagel
I graduated from the Fashion Institute of Technology with a BFA in Fashion Design. Illustrating was always my favorite part of the design process, but I was told repeatedly that there was no longer any demand for fashion illustrators. I’m now at the age where many of my friends are getting married, so I had …
Etsy Finds: The Grand Canvas
It was the movie star and scientist Hedy Lamarr who said, "A good painting to me has always been like a friend. It keeps me company, comforts and inspires." I'd have to heartily agree with Hedy, which is why today I'm bringing you a handpicked collection of Etsy art that has moved and inspired me. Connect directly …
There's No Place Like Here: Edna W. Lawrence Nature Lab at the Rhode Island School of Design
Friend Etsy on Youtube or Blip.tv | Subscribe to Etsy's iTunes Podcast | MP4 (music by Boolar, The Give, animation by JuliaPott) Walking into RISD's Edna W. Lawrence Nature Lab is an awe-inspiring experience. From the images that I had seen online, I was somewhat prepared for what to expect when I went to shoot this …
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Un Portrait de l'artiste matilou
Happy Bastille Day to our French friends! Today we travel to France to visit the studio of illustrator Anne Cresci, a.k.a. matilou. She gave French journalist Fabrice Guilloud and her husband Laurence, who made this video, a tour of her Lyon workshop. Illustrating children's books was just her start — after she …
Guest Curator: Share Some Candy
Share Some Candy, run by Reuben and Yael Miller, is a unique blog that features the work of artists, makers and designers. Reuben and Yael are big on supporting artists and creative folk by inviting artists to put up their own work with a team of dedicated "curators" who find the best "eye candy" to share. The blog …
News From the Craft + Style Blogosphere: June 18, 2009
“Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.” — Oscar Wilde This week's edition of News From the Craft + Style Blogosphere has frills and lace for any season, forgotten illustrators and long lost art, a modern rustic apartment with beautiful plants aplenty, Peggy Moffitt as 1960s music video …
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Spinstersummer's Ode to the Queer Animal Kingdom
Nicole Georges, a.k.a. Spinstersummer, has been making zines since she was thirteen. Her ongoing autobiographical zine Invincible Summer is about bands, relationships, animals, vegan food and beehived hairdos. Nicole's Etsy shop is full of goodies, from fun zines to stuffed sock monkeys, narwhals and queer …
Guest Curator: Tara McPherson
Tara McPherson is an artist based out of New York City. Creating art about people and their odd ways, her characters seem to exude an idealized innocence with a glimpse of hard earned wisdom in their eyes. Recalling many issues from childhood and good old life experience, she creates images that are …
Artistic Endeavors: Nosideup's Favorite Drawings
Drawing is my favorite artistic medium. Drawings are bold statements; what you see is what you get. They have an unparalleled freshness and spontaneity, and can be careful and elaborate, or raw and direct. They are regularly used to study and create a "grander" piece, but to me that's what makes them so …
very lovely creations, made me smile:)!
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Those origami shoes are really neat!
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Those origami shoes are very neat!
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Those origami shoes are great!
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