Ballookey

I’m the artist spotlight at go flying turtle!
It was very nice of Steve to ask me to be July’s spotlight since there are a lot more skilled people out there, but I think the nice takeaway from that article is that people shouldn’t feel too bad about their skill level as long as they enjoy [...]

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I just came across the photography of Daniela Edburg and LOVE it. The knitted props and stuffed satin intestines really make her work extra special.

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Whatever that means. Anyway, like everyone else, I’m playing with it and loving it. I only wish there were a way to print high res images with it.

Updated to add: Really! Check it out! It’s like drawing with spiderwebs and angora fur, and other fun stuff.

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Oh man, this Ice Kingdom travel poster by Tom Whalen would go great with the posters I have from Echo Park Time Travel Mart:

A good extended like Blair always warms my heart.

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Cahier de Travail Manuel de Louise Despont.
The drawings of Louise Despont remind me of the written Gallifreyan language. I can totally imagine these as the journals of a Timelord.
Don’t know what I’m talking about?

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This print by Mike Klay is currently available at POWERSLIDE DESIGN CO.
The image below just happens to be the image for January in my 2010 Charley Harper Calendar (larger images visible at the site where this one is hosted):

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Now to me, this is too close for comfort. I personally feel that the Mike Klay image [...]

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I have a hate/love relationship with FFFFOUND!, the “image bookmarking” website.
Love, because by browsing it’s images daily, I find gorgeous and inspirational things like this:

Hate, because they almost never give a link back to the original artist, creator, or source. There’s never even a mention of the originator’s name. In the case of the above [...]

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銀杏 on Flickr – Photo Sharing!.
The light, color, shape and translucency of these leaves is so inspiring I really want to drop everything and draw and paint.

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I already went into a bit of detail regarding these pieces at Moleskine Exchange, but I thought I’d post the images here for people who might visit my site.
I’m carefully photographing and saving all my sketches for this year-long Moleskine project because at the end, I’d like to get an iPhoto book of all my [...]

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Collab on Flickr – Photo Sharing!.
This is the “completed” collaboration with Mike Kline, who did the dragon, in Mary Stebbins Tait’s book from this round of the Moleskine Exchange.
I had several thoughts about how to work on this piece, but Mary had some suggestions in the front of her book, and since I didn’t take those [...]

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