People look for meaning in things, but the truth is, I was out in the garden and suddenly thought I wish I had a tiny moose
— via Squash Tea
Pod art from Chris Gugliotti
Homage to Chuck Jones. Original paintings, mixed media on paper, by Mike Peraza, art director for The Lion King — via Directed by Chuck Jones
Square Kufic (kufi mrabba’), sometimes known as bannâ’i (masonry script
) is a particular style of Kufic that is going to allow us to create composition using the basic structural forms of the letters. Indeed, Square Kufic (abbreviated SK) is the barest of all Arabic writing styles, and an interesting precursor to pixel art, although it was originally made up of bricks and tiles and used on a large scale in architecture.
This style is absolutely not concerned with legibility: it is understood that the message, the Word, is there, and gazing upon it is enough to receive its blessing. Literacy may have been limited in the past, but beauty was always accessible to all, and it is the beauty of the pattern that matters. In its simplest form, SK is austere, and derives its beauty from the purity of its austerity; but it lends itself to clever, even playful variations only limited by one’s creativity. More than any other calligraphic practice, creating in SK feels very much like solving a puzzle, giving it particular appeal for problem-solvers — via Tuts+
HAPPY WEEKEND! FRIDAY FOLLOWER SHOUT OUT: redwolf — via Who’s The What Now
— via lunarbaboon
By Mark Reihill — via PLANET-PULP
I think I’m going to call him a quadtopus. Trying to experiment with adding depth and life to flat line drawings — via Dribbble
Learning how to paint in Sketchbook pro — via DeviantArt
Wolf and Declán by Chris Gugliotti
— via DeviantArt
Maria Grazia Rosin was born and raised in Venice, and she trained as a painter at the Academy of Fine Arts. In 1992, she experimented with glass for the first time. Rosin has applied her inventiveness and humour to two of the most traditional Venetian forms in glass: the chandelier and the table centrepiece. This is one of a series of chandeliers in the form of octopuses and squids that the artist has made with the master glass-blower and glass sculptor Pino Signoretto. With its waving arms, murky colour, and staring eyes, the octopus evokes the mysterious depths of the ocean. This subject is perfect for Venice, a city that has had a long association with the sea. This extraordinary chandelier is both a sculpture and a lighting fixture. One of the arms of the huge octopus acts as the vertical shaft of the fixture, and the creature’s remaining arms (five large and two small) are shaped into the traditional arms of the chandelier. The invertebrate’s eyes are illuminated with fibre-optic lighting, and the deep black of the glass is enlivened with iridescent purple, blue, green, and gold sparkles. A small red squid hangs from the bottom of the chandelier — via Corning Museum of Glass
Marie Enger — via PLANET-PULP
This drawing has been itching to get out of my head for months, so I seized the opportunity to put in some serious work and bring it to life. I love all things nautical (with a little leaning toward steampunk) along with with motifs of sealife and sailing — via Folksy
— via Camilla d’Errico Art
Good luck on finals! Y’all got this :] — via According to Devin
Film made in 1970 by Bedfordshire Record Office of Cockerell marbling — via Youtube
Another work from the Paradoxes series: Octopus in a birdcage
— via saraelanillustration
For a while now I have been wanting to find a way to show off my comic book collection in my office. I had done a lot of searching online for comic book picture frames and have been constantly turned off by the price of them. I have always been turned off by the price of photo frames, but that is a rant for another blog post — via Youseph Tanha
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