the art project | “ciencias naturales” series by juan gatti

this series combines my favorite things... anatomy photos, collages, and flowers/botany. beautiful and a little bit weird. just my style.

Anatomic Collages from the “Ciencias Naturales” series by Juan Gatti. VISIT HIS WEBSITE.

the art project | soey milk

i have a weak spot for all things star and space related. these pieces by soey milk are too cute for words!

the art project | animal portraits by charlotte caron

i'm so in love with this series called "animal portraits" by french artist charlotte caron.  i've been trying to find someone to collaborate with for ages on something similar to this.  i want to send out some portrait prints and have someone paint on them.  she did a great job, these are absolutely amazing.  you can see more from this series and others on her website.

tat-tuesday | watercolor tattoos

watercolor bird and cloud tattoo by amanda wachob

red watercolor poppy tattoo [via]

birds and brushstrokes
"This is a memorial tattoo for my grandpa. I first got the doves on 2/14 because he passed away on valentines day 7 years ago. The doves are based off of his favorite hymn “I’ll fly away.” I chose doves because it’s a very biblical bird and my grandpa was one of the heavy influences of my faith. Doves are referenced from the book of Matthew when Jesus is getting baptized and the Spirit comes down as a dove. The paintbrush strokes represent my grandpa’s job as a painter for most of his life.

(doves by Scott Sketo/ paintbrush strokes by Scott Parsons both from Enigma Studio in Richmond, VA)" [via]

yellow finch watercolor tattoo [via]

hummingbird watercolor tattoo by ondrash znojmo tattoo [via]

for the love of music watercolor tattoo [via]

watercolor eyes [via]

watercolor pirate ship [via]

watercolor rain/umrella tattoo [via]

glue globber

for some reason on saturday i felt the need to destroy some magazines and make a couple collages. the top one with the ice cream/chocolate was done on saturday, the black and white series and the snow white one were all done a really long time ago, more than 3 years, just finally decided to dig them out of storage and digitize them.

nautical themed collage coming soonish.

art appreciation

tea sketch no 1 with color by michael shapcott

daydreaming by hollie chastain

non title3 by *Ryohei-Hase on deviantART

cory schmitz

mary musth by ryohei hase

by karen ryan

ron swanson by jade sheldon

chelsea greene lewyta

by conrad roset

audrey kawasaki at work

"girlfriendsss" by jonathan reid sevigny

relevant art inspiration links:
101 art ideas you can do yourself by rob ruitt
How To Steal Like An Artist (And 9 Other Things Nobody Told Me) - Austin Kleon

yes, i'm aware that this is not a cohesive collection of art... it's just some photos/art that i have saved because they are ever so lovely and i just had to share :] they make me want to cut up magazines, pull out my mostly dried up acrylics, and do something creative.

do you guys have any art suggestions for me to check out?

tilt | things i love thursday

the works of amazing artist camille rose garcia:

tempura chicken maki from sake house and cucumber rolls from sushi factory, i had every intention of taking pictures of it, but as soon as i opened the box i gobbled it all up without a thought of pulling out my camera. i could easily eat sushi every single day.

free coffee. either i look so bad that the guy in au bon pain thinks it is a public service to give me a free cup of coffee the last few times i have gone in there or maybe he thinks i'm cute. either way, yay for free hazelnut coffee!

indian food. now this was the real shocker for me because i have always refused to try it. i was convinced by a friend of mine to try it on sunday and i LOVED it. we went to india garden. i had chicken tikka marsala and vegetable samosas and they were SO good, i'm a total convert, i'm sorry about all the smack that i ever talked about indian food without trying it.

photo adventures. the day that we went and had indian food we also went on a mini photo adventure. it was aimless since the skies were grey, but we found an amazing abandoned house and a couple of cows with amazingly long horns. of course all of my photos were taken on film so i can't share them right now.

tilt

things i'm loving this week:

• the art work of fernando vicente [who did the piece above]
• weight watchers
• martini and rossi - asti
• when i have a few minutes to sit down and read. i've been working on "young hearts crying" by richard yates [the guy who wrote "revolutionary road"] since new years or maybe even before and finally last night i had a chance to read a couple more chapters.
• new photo opportunities. friday and saturday i'm taking photos all day of a swim meet, haven't really done sports photography before so i'm hoping it goes well!