Artist Jake Fried makes mesmerizing, psychedelic animated shorts by layering ink, gouache, white-out and coffee.
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Striking watercolors of malformed insects by scientific illustrator Cornelia Hesse-Honegger, a visceral political statement about the dangers of radioactivity and nuclear power gone out of hand.
New visual genius from Austin Kleon’s endlessly wonderful Newspaper Blackout project. Also see Kleon on how to steal like an artist.
Hand-lettered awesomeness from the notebook of Debbie Millman, maker of amazing things.
Complement with Michio Kaku’s The Universe in a Nutshell.
When I turn in the art I’m worried that it’s totally inadequate. When the book arrives in stores a year later I only see mistakes. A few months later I love it.
Illustrator Alex Rex, creative hand behind Neil Gaiman’s charming Chu’s Day, shares the nitty-gritty of his process in making a picture-book.
James Gulliver Hancock offers an intimate look at his wonderful illustration project, All the Buildings in New York.
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Lovely poster for New York’s Downtown Literary Festival by the one and only Sophie Blackall, in the style of her endlessly endearing Missed Connections.
Exploded Flowers by Singapore-based photographer Fong Qi Wei is the most breathtaking floral art since Andrew Zuckerman’s Flower.
Ronald Walters’s incredible musical marble machine – a beautiful convergence of art and science.
The Art of Cleanup – Swiss artist and comedian Ursus Wehrli playfully deconstructs and reorders the chaos of life.
At the American Academy in Rome, filmmaker Nicholas Heller follows Visiting Artist Ann Weber on her daily rounds, scavenging cardboard boxes out of dumpsters, collecting ideas from architectural details and Bernini sculptures and creating sculpture in her studio.
A FEATHER.
A feather is trimmed, it is trimmed by the light and the bug and the post, it is trimmed by little leaning and by all sorts of mounted reserves and loud volumes. It is surely cohesive.
Lisa Congdon illustrates Tender Buttons, Gertrude Stein’s avant-garde 1914 verses about everyday objects.
There are so many people who don’t know what they want. And I think that, in this world, that’s the only thing you have to know — exactly what you want.
In this 1997 interview, iconic painter Agnes Martin echoes the importance of finding your purpose and doing what you love.
