This note card is a paper cut made in Hong Kong, and I can’t wait to get it in a frame. The woman who sold it to me had a whole stack but wouldn’t sell me more than one (what is with antique dealers sometimes?).
Brendan and I have picked up a few perfect finds at flea markets lately. Here’s one of my favorites, a little $2.00 (!) painting now in a new frame. Finding pretty things at flea markets is just so satisfying!
I’m completely entertained this morning by Sr. García’s collages… many more on his website. Hope you all have wonderful weekends! I’m looking forward to a little catch-up, and maybe next week on Mint will be more normal-like…
found on poolga, a great place to find a new iphone/ipad wallpaper
Chris Silas Neal is an illustrator and designer who teaches at Pratt Institute. His work has been featured by Communication Arts, American Illustration, AIGA, Society of Illustrators, Society of Publication Designers, Art Directors Club of Denver, Print Magazine and the New York Times. I found his beautiful work on the NPR site, for a series called Summer Books.
Steph Walker is an artist and graphic designer who gets paid in food, money, and tee shirts to figure stuff out for you because that’s what she’s good at.
SW: Sticks & Stones & Ice Cream Cones (The Craft Book for Children) by Phyllis Fiarotta 1973
SW: Worst: Bulk soggy yellow pickles. Tolerable: Anything dill with enough garlic from the supermarket. Best: Fresh made pickles from a NY deli.
SW: It’s a pet peeve of mine when people listen to their music on the subway, but my favorite song right now is “A Cold Freezin’ Night” by The Books.
SW: It has changed my priorities and made me want to do more art based work on my own. I have less desire to work for a studio and more reasons to sit at home and work on crazy stuff.
SW: Art and design are separate things for me when it’s the difference between an art show and a design job, but design skills are used when I make art, and art skills are used when I do design work. Only each end product is for a different purpose. Since they’re coming from the same place (me) they’re going to be similar in approach. But, the client design work is more calculated, the art work is more free.
Don’t forget to check out more of Steph’s work on his website!
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Lindsay Preston is an artist and graphic designer from San Diego. In “Lindsay’s Quick Queries”, Lindsay brings you work by contemporary artists, and answers to the questions everyone has been wondering about them, like “pancakes or waffles?”
“Pacific Ocean, Noosa, Australia, April 1, 2008 (afternoon effect),” 2009, watercolor on paper
part of an ongoing series based on observations of various bodies of water at different times of day under changing light conditions
“Abecedary (Nabokov’s Theory of a Colored Alphabet applied to Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle),” 2004, ink and watercolor on paper
“CIE 529/418 (candlelight),” 2007, sandblasted glass
This installation shifts the color of the exterior sunlight to the color of candlelight inside the gallery.
“102 Colors from My Dreams,” 2002, 102 drawings, ink on paper
Colors from a dream diary kept over the course of two years.
“Crevasse (Fox Glacier, April 8th, 2008, 2:10pm),” 2008, filters and tape
This piece re-creates the color of the light in a crevasse on Fox Glacier in New Zealand.
You can read an interview with artist Spencer Finch on NY Arts. Images, titles, and descriptions are from Finch’s website.
Another artist I “discovered” this weekend is Jonathan Callan, who makes beautiful sculptures from old books.
Although his work looked strangely familiar… Come on, Anthro. Get it together.
images: Brian Mac Domhnaill, artnet, evan read, google images (original source not found)
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