We Make Carpets

I've thought about this a lot, and it's time for a career change. I think I would make an excellent temporary carpet designer. I'd like to start by making one with embroidery floss bobbins, and next sprouts, and after that paint swatches and stamps and beads and goldfish. Somewhere down the road, climbing equipment. They have these small colorful metal things they bang into cliffs, and the ropes are always so bright. But I still need to refine the idea a little bit.

So, if you know of anyone who'd like to sponsor me to obsessively lay out small colorful things in pretty designs all day, please send them my way. I'm ready.

Ben Branagan

It's been a while since I've posted about an artist. And this may not be the best one to get back into the groove with - I didn't find an organized web page for him. But today, right now, his circles are perfection.

Most Beautiful Landscape Paintings. Evar.

http://web.mac.com/slack2slack/iWeb/Slack%20Illustration/Home.html

Julia Rothman

I adore illustration. Right now, Julia Rothman is my hero. Her buildings remind me a little of Asha's.

Spaghetti dinner made with household items

notice I said items, not food.

Leda is the best at finding delightful things on youtube.

Western Spaghetti

Today's cool thing

Puts yesterdays cool thing to shame...

Origamido. Origami, for reals.

Asha's graduation dinner

These pics are from way back when. When asha graduated 4th grade, Erik and I took her out for dinner. We went to a place called Ratatouille, on Willamette. It was medium to high end vegan food, very delish. The best part was paper table cloths - which we proceeded to decorate. These drawings are mostly asha's, but some are mine.

Mine, ranunculus & story in back ground

My dinosaur, asha's salt and city (she makes brilliant cities), erik's pterodactyl


The every fruit sparkle plant - colaboration

stawberry hampster



Asha's army of hearts


Erik is fighting her army of hearts with an army of stomachs


The finished piece

The Tacoma Museum of Glass

I'm kind of a museum junkie. It's the second on my to-do list when I travel, right after aquariums, and right before finding new and interesting restaurants. Basically, i like them all - except the Portland art museum, which is kind of small and dull, and very expensive.

I went to this summer, my two favorites were the Tacoma Museum of Glass, and the Legion of Honor.

The Tacoma Museum of glass just rocks. Partly because I love glass, partly because they do a great job with their exhibits - they always have something really cool and interesting - and party because they have an on site theater style glass blowing studio. You need a break from walking around staring intently at pretty things, you can go and space out and watch them make pretty vases and stuff. I could watch forever.



The Chihuly walkway





Yes, I'm lying on the ground





The studio

Outdoor reflecting pools with rotating exhibits




No photography inside, but i snuck a few

The gift shop




I wore my glass necklace to the museum (necklace by sam)

Collaboration with Asha

Asha has such a wonderful drawing style. When I was her age, I was lucky if you could tell what I was trying to draw, but no matter what it is, it lacked flare, interest. But her stuff rocks.

Lately I feel like I'm relearning to draw. I'm doing away with a few conventions I was taught in early art classes, and it's much more fun without them.

Two of these are mine, two are Asha's. I love them together. You might have to look at them a little bigger, they're drawn with .18mm & .3mm pens




Here are a few more of her drawings. Aren't they lovely? I asked her to make me the fanciest spoon she could. She threw in the smallest spoon she could draw next to it.... this card is 2"X1.5"



Next she drew a cupcake. This was a dilema for her. She said cupcakes are important, and require prominence. but they're also cute, and that requires smallness. She settled on a large cupcake decorated with very tiny cupcakes.



Bees attack tiny town. The town is my fave, you should look at it larger.



And a dinosaur card made for yours truly. His name is bing-bong, his skin markings are made of hearts.

Daniel Rozin

Got another artist for you. This is pretty much the coolest thing ever.

Peter Callesen

The lovely Leda found this creative fellow. I do love paper.

India Flint & the eco-print

you will be hearing more about her, and my project soon. She makes some very pretty things.

http://www.indiaflint.com/

I suspect that this is computer animation

I could be wrong. But, I think of this as how computer animation should be used... not crap like Ice Age.

Anyway, it's pretty. This is L'éphémère, by Alexandre Désilets

Telephonic sheep

by Jean Luc Cornec. Wonder what else he's done?

http://www.bookofjoe.com/2008/05/telephonic-shee.html

Glass & Debora Moore

Lovely

http://deboramoore.com/index.html

Congratulations Jason

Congratulations Jason! Jason sold a story, hopefully (knock on wood) two! It sounds like a rad comic, and I can't wait to read it

Cristina Regadas has a lovely flickr site

Isn't it amazing how much more beautiful people can be, when they are beautiful in an interesting, creative expressive way?

http://www.flickr.com/photos/eiikii/sets/72157602068153669/

I simply adore Gerard Richter

Adore him.

http://www.gerhard-richter.com/