paper

my point ears by The Maple Ridge.

This is an original watercolor and pencil drawing. Just love the description :

is this a Halloween costume or just his favorite pair of pajamas? either way i think he looks great in them. pointy ear-sleeves and stripy arms and legs. is he yelling “trick-or-treat” to his neighborhood cat-lady that lives across the street or whining because he doesn’t want to go to bed without having a cookie as wide as his arms are spread? whatever the case may be i bet i know what you’re thinking. you’re thinking how much you want to squeeze him ’til he poops.

I also love this one a lot :

love me (detail).

The Maple Ridge.

“in this place” by Heather Smith Jones @ Etsy.

I love this piece by Heather Smith Jones and since I was going to post it before I took my “little break”, here it is !

It is an original watercolor painting with pinholes on paper. Heather Smith Jones uses this “pinhole technique” a lot - you can see some here @ Etsy or on her Flickr in this album - but I really love it the most when she combines techniques.

She has an amazing sense of color which is not only obvious in her watercolors - she grinds and prepares them herself which tells me she has a sensual relationship with pigments and colors - but also in her acrylic, tempera and oil paintings. I absolutely love this one called “a cottonwood seed”.

And did I say that she only sells originals in her Etsy shop ?

She also has a blog.

The Camera by roadside projects @ Etsy.

This is actually Part 001 of Project #001 (a series of psychological portraits) by artist Jayme McGowan.

This is “a one-of-a-kind, three-dimensional box construction intricately crafted with cut paper, watercolor, and ink in a handmade frame with glass front.”

You can also find Parts 002, The Letter + 003, The Headphones & 004, The Costume in the shop.

Original Paper Collage, Abstract Works on Paper by Cherie Lester.

Cherie Lester is also a photographer, but I am not so fond of her photos as I am of those paper collages of hers. The first one is an original, whereas the second one below is an archival print.

You can also see some paintings on her website.

Archival Pigment Print of an Original Collage.

Japanese Flower Fabrics by Karaku Tokyo @ Etsy.

I cannot think right now of anything more exquisite in terms of color and pattern than Japanese fabrics. They always seem so perfect ! In a sense they are the epitome of “A thing of beauty…”.

And I cannot thing of a more exquisite shop than Karaku Tokyo @ Etsy. All her fabrics are simply gorgeous and beautiful. They have amazingly nice colors, not to mention the patterns which are all superb.

Besides the flower patterns, you will of course find geometric ones like this one :

And she also has a lot of Japanese Papers. I absolutely love that yellow one !

I discovered her through her Flickr. She lives in Tokyo, Japan where she is an interior designer. Her company website Karaku Tokyo is about Japanese home decoration.