JUST.....WOW! Charmaine Olivia

These paintings are by Charmaine Olivia - a drawer, painter, tea-drinker, self-taught San Franciscan artist. She was born and raised in a small beach town in Southern California where she first started drawing with soy sauce on napkins but has since upgraded to paper and paint. Charmaine resides in San Francisco's sunny Mission District where she love's playing Scrabble in the park, cuddling with her kitten & drinking peppermint tea. She has such a creative style, love it!

To have a look at some more of her amazing work check out her website and her blog!

richard phillips

these artworks are by photorealist painter Richard Phillips who lives and works in New York. He is known for his large-scale glossy hyper-realistic paintings, recalling the pictorial style of magazines from the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s and reflecting traditions of popular image.

Kristina Collantes

kristina collantes is a young illustrator and designer living in California. I really love her use of colour and intricate patterns in her work, oh yeah ... and the total randomness... so imaginative. She’s currently working on a type, colorful and organic. A & B are done but we hope see 24 others soon.

here is a quote from her that i love...

Thats when I chose to take up catting* as a profession. I bought 7 cats and my life has been awesome ever since. I shit you not.

*Collecting/befriending local/overseas cats.

 

find out more on her behance page

the flaming lips picked two illustrations from her portfolio to use for their promotional posters for the Bonnaroo Festival.

lettters A and B from her new type illustrations

 

pretty textile design she created

jkldesign

Stumbled upon artist leigh viner (jkldesign) today while skimming through my fav blogs. i find her art amazing, love the colour texture and style she shows. seems like 2009 was her year with her art featured on the cover of the April/March issue of Dujour magazine also the cover of Skirt Magazine's November issue, Forever 21's blog the Skinny, N.E.E.T. Magazine's December issue! pretty inspiring i say. if you want to check out more of her work, visit her jkldesign etsy shop or her super cool blog called create