Across The Universe by Jessica Torrant @ Etsy.
Original acrylic painting, 2007.
Jessica Torrant’s website Livefunky + her blog.
You can also read more about her on her Etsy profile.
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Oceanic Craters Ceramic and Glass Dish by seaurchin @ Etsy.
Whenever you come upon the Simply Gorgeous and Beautiful it is better to just sit back and let the artist do the talking :
One-off ceramic sculpture, this low dish has a pattern of large double craters. The bowl is made of sculptural white clay and has been glazed with a matt ivory stoneware with chocolate brown in the craters. Aqua coloured glass has been melted into some of the craters and the edges have been highlighted with gold lustre. Some of the craters are pierced right through, and some are very thin so you can see the light coming through….this gives an interesting effect with the glass.
The dish is 4.5inches/11.5cm across and 1inch/2.5cm high.
All of my sea urchin and coral ceramic sculptures are individual and experimental, and very personal to me….my true artwork!
This is intended as an object of beauty only….it is not intended for food use.
You can read more about Lisa Stevens on her profile and on the “featured seller” page @ Etsy.
She also has a Flickr.
Train of Thought by Erin Miller Arnold @ Etsy.
I discovered Erin Miller Arnold - Naptime Studios - last week and I so love her art that as I was settling to write about her today, I also bought 2 small watercolors from her shop. I am only telling you because this is actually the first time I am buying art @ Etsy - I have been really really short of money these last months - but her watercolors are absolutely divine and so unexpensive that I just couldn’t resist.
I am now dreaming I could also afford this triptych which I particularly love from her. You see, I have never written that on this blog but I sometimes paint - my palette consists of much brighter colors - and I also do pieces that are separate independant paintings, but which could be parts of one larger piece. I like the idea of “details” in paintings - although this is not exactly the case here - like the stuff we usually see in art books called “detail”.
One thing I really like about the art of Erin Miller Arnold is her sense of texture. She started last year to experiment with encaustics, a medium which can give amazing results. I am not familiar with the process, but I read a couple of things about it when compiling my list of 100 artists @ Etsy since some of the artists use it, and it seemed a bit technical and complex…
As Erin Miller Arnold puts it on her blog :
So that was the first “true” encaustic I have done. I use beeswax all the time in my work but always alone, and more as a texture and resist method and also a tool to use for my text. So it was very different to be using pigmented wax and a blow torch!
Her new encaustic pieces can be found in her Etsy shop. Here’s a “detail” of one of them :
And I must say I am very much in love with this minimalist mixed-media painting :
Now if you like her small watercolors, grab them while they’re still so cheap !
Plane and Cloud Necklace by tearoseworkshop @ Etsy.
I love the poetic feel of that necklace. It sold today, but I am posting it nevertheless because I had planned to and it is simply beautiful.
rainscapes I - Original Mixed-media Painting by mintage designs @ Etsy.
I love the simplicity of this one. This is an original.
One interesting thing to note is that mintage designs also does custom banners for Etsy.
Rocky Mountains Drawing No. 1 - Limited Edition Print by jaimers @ Etsy.
It probably might not show, but I try to write this blog a bit in the way of “film editing”, which means that I try to find some aesthetic (or thematic) connection between the articles on the main page, so I was wondering what to write to follow - actually precede for you readers - the Appalachian Crafstmen boards and I found this wonderful drawing by Jaime Derringer in my favorites.
There are actually 2 drawings entitled “Rocky mountains” - you can find No. 2 here but this one is really my favorite (although they would certainly look terrific as a pair). The original for No. 2 is still available.
I really love the colors of this one and the fact that the mountains are not centered and there is so much blank space. If you think this is a bit exagerated, just look at the image where it is shown framed and you will see how this is exactly right.
Jaime Derringer is the “bloggeress” behind Design Milk and she also runs an online store called Vitamin D(esign).
End Grain Cutting Board Purpleheart by Appalachian Craftsmen @ Etsy.
I have what can hardly be called a “kitchen” - it is a very small place not made nor organized to cook, but then I do not cook, so - but the cutting boards designed and made by Appalachian Craftsmen are so beautiful you could almost build your dream kitchen around them…
They use different varieties of woods, so the boards do not all have the same colors and they also have simpler designs. But this one is really my favorite, I think you could just use it to display fruits or anything you like.
Blythe Bunny Bunny Love Dress by Le Petit Boutique @ Etsy.
I bought my very first Blythe outfits from Claudia @ Le Petit Boutique and I must say that although her creations are not all to my taste, she always has the most wonderful fabrics.
I am not very much into “kawaii” fabrics (which is one of the reasons I have not bought anything from her since, that and the fact that I just don’t have the money right now to be buying doll clothes) but she consistently manages to find some that are really amazing and very sweet like this one with bunnies.
I have been wanting to blog about that dress for a few weeks now - and simply did not find the time to do it - and now it is on SALE along with a few other dresses by Claudia.
Pair of cups - light blue and white by Kristin Pavelka Pottery @ Etsy.
I’m not so fond of her other creations, but I really love those two cups a lot. Here’s the description in her own words :
Darling pair of earthenware teabowls with blue and white arc pattern and reddish orange dots. Inside is glazed pale lime green. Trimmed footring with personal stamp.
Black & White Dress for Blythe by Belgianwafel @ Etsy.
Those who read me would know that I am really a sucker for colors and Black and White does not often get my attention. However I really love that Blythe dress by Belgianwafel. This is really one of my favorites in her shop.
Ballpoint pen drawing (original) by ArtsPreserve @ Etsy.
Today seems to be a fruitful day for there was also this great artist Daniel Curtis from Lincoln, Nebraska in the “pounce” section.
He is selling original art, and even though my favorite is the ballpoint pen drawing above, I also love this acrylic and ink a lot :
Acrylic and ink on fabriano paper (original).
You can see more of his art in his Flickr and he also has a blog.
And don’t forget to read his profile @ Etsy in which he invites us to check on his favorites - which I have done to discover wonderful artists…
Baby wuth mum by Be Happy Now @ Etsy.
I discovered this great tool of Etsy only very recently and I’ve found a great artist today using it so it has inspired me to start a series of articles.
It’s called “pounce” and you can either browse through shops that have not yet made their first sale (the official line is : “Recently updated shops that have not yet had a sale”, so I do not know if it works with shops that have been here a long time and have not sold anything…) or else browse through shops that have just made a sale. I chose the first and stumbled upon Be Happy Now and I love her sense of color. She uses watercolors a lot, but not only for there is also this amazing carving painting that I absolutely adore :
This particular one listed there is called “Original Carving Painting” and I was confused at first with the word “original” associated with “carving” so I asked Jenny exactly what she meant by that and she replied that it was the first one made with the metal plate. So more are to come, which is good news for of course just as I was writing this article, 4 items including the ones I put photos of had already been sold !
Her prices are unbelivably cheap and I think she could really sell her original watercolors and her other artwork for more…
She also has a Flickr.
So last week I got the most crazy idea that I would compile a list of 100 artists @ Etsy and I immediately set to work.
I wanted to write a few words about the “why” & “how” of the affair, but I realized nobody would actually care, so to keep things simple let’s just say that I have discovered many great and talented artists through Etsy, and it is getting more and more difficult each day to browse through their shops since there is no way to tag or organize your favorites into categories on the site and I figured a “memo” or “post-it” article would be of great use, not just for me or for people already familiar with Etsy, but also for people who would like to discover new artists but do not have the time to extensively browse the internet or Etsy for that matter….
TreeSpot (limited edition print) by Junkyard Sam @ Etsy.
While “searching for mushrooms” the other day, I discovered this great artist Junkyard Sam @ Etsy.
Even though I am very much attacted to Lowbrow Art, his work at first sight might not exactly be what I am more drawn to for it has a kind of “cleanliness” about it - probably due to the use of computer in the process as well as to the fact that Junkyard Sam used to work in the game industry - which might have deterred me a bit.
However, examining more carefully the works presented @ Etsy, I could not help but feel something compelling in his art. There is indeed definitely a universe here, a brand new world created and opening before us, for us to walk in and encounter strange creatures… And if you read Junkyard Sam’s introductory words which go :
Welcome to the land of “Tong Picnic”, a world where strange people befriend animals to travel across bizarre lands full of good citizens and scary monsters!
plus the titles of his works as well as the descriptions, you realize that although this universe might be unknown to you, it does exist to some and is indeed very real, since the land and the creatures that inhabit it all have names.
Meet T’nip Whirl :
A Portrait of T’nip Whirl (limited edition print).
Orb by Heather Knight Ceramics @ Etsy.
Heather Knight ceramics are sculptures. The way she experiments with texture is amazing and I especially love her botanical tiles. (She has several ones : turf, noni, magnolia, durian, lichen…)
Heather Knight Ceramics @ Element Clay Studio : Etsy + DaWanda + her blog.
Michael Traister takes her photos.
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