Beautiful Patterns from Nina Warmerdam

Beautiful imprints from Nina Warmerdam that features repetitive images to create breathtaking images and patterns. The based in Paris illustrator has created quite a portfolio throughout her designing days.

A Peak Inside a Bunch of Artists' Studios. What Kind of Artist Are You? Minimalist VS Mayhem

How would you classify yourself as an artist? What color are your walls? What are on your walls? How do you create your art work?

A studio tells a lot about an artist's work and personality and through these studio photos, we will see how diverse we actually all are in creating art.

What Kind of Artist Are You?

The cozy-nook blogger

The hard-core industrial designer daddy.

The Japanese-Nordic lover

The super modern graphic designer.

The OCD architect with built-in ceiling to floor cabinets and drawers.

VERSUS

The overly enthusiastic artist which no canvas can ever contain

The senior artist who knows well what he is doing but actually prefers reading and sketching outdoors. "Oh don't worry darling, I know exactly where it is."

The well known artist that gives a damn about how is space is SUPPOSED to look.

The urban artist who makes the most of his small space. 

"I swear I put it there, someone must have moved it. It was right there!"

The artists that incorporates exercising into his work. Has odd ropes and sticks hanging or laying around and has no trouble locating his art medias as all are bought in bulk and stacked in a corner on top of each other.

The fine art graduate who finds beauty in everyday things and believes a studio is just a traditional working studio.

So, what kind of studio do you have?

If you would like to have your studio pictures posted up in the next Artist Studio, please drop us a line at lucy.catherine.ashley at gmail dot com.

For more studio pictures, please visit No Place Like HEIMA on Pinterest. 

Artist Interview. 5 minutes with La Flore et La Faune

I must confess that I have been a on a crazy blog hunt recently, gathering the blogs of illustrators and fashionistas that I love. And yesterday, magic happened! I found a lovely artist's blog, La Flore et La Faune and luckily, he was willing to share some of his art and passion with us all. Yeay!

I love simple pen sketched images. I love them even more when they have hints of colours in them. This is just what this Paris based illustrator is good at. He doesn't only draw out sketches, but he writes words of poetry (in French) against his work, adding a special touch and meaning to them.

Here's a short look in to his mind...

Excuse my english.

I'm from Paris and as you know french are not so good at foreign languages.

We're only good at food, wine and love. ;)

Describe how you ended up illustrating.
At first I wanted to be a film director or a novelist. And I took the habit of drawing my stories. And I realized it was a very cool way of inventing situations and characters. Less expensive and faster. More freedom. So I worked my style out.

Describe your illustrations.
Quirky.

I can walk hours under the sun to find my fav newspapers...

Which artists do you get inspired by?
First of all I LOVE drawings. More than painting. They fascinate me : the way Picasso draws a bird, or Giacometti a face, or Da Vinci a plant. It's a minimal kind of expression which is sometimes so powerful & so evocative. A simple line, a simple sketch can be fantastic. Actually I'm not inspired by precise artists, but by people I meet in real life : they give me inspiration. Their talk, their thoughts about life, death, love, sex, work, french fries, french kisses and the Universe. Their style, their haircut, their attitudes.

What media do you prefer to use to create your illustrations?
Less is more. I always use the same pen to draw : the Pilot Fineliner, and special painting pens for colors. I put them in a black leather pencil case.That's all.

What media do you usually avoid using? and why?
I avoid using graphics software because I don't know how to use them. I'm totally low-tech. And I'm very impatient. I take a lot of time to imagine my illustrations but when I'm drawing I'm focused. I like rock'n roll music when I draw.

If you could change anything in this world, what would it be, and why?
I'd give people more self confidence about their talents. I'm convinced if people could follow their true being, the world would be quite different. Less frustrations, less violence, less misunderstandings.

All of the images above are from the artist's blog, Flore et La Faune. Please visit and drop by his blog to see more of his amazing work and thoughts.

Monochrome illustrations

Julie Nivert just continues to amaze me with her detailed illustration of female bodies.

She is so good at capturing the angles and curves.

WOW!

Julie Nivert is a true fashion illustrator that really knows how to work her curves and lines.She is expert in both the pen media and the graphic colouring.
I am gobsmacked by her Ganesh inspired illustration. Ohh...

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Lovely art

All these beautiful images are from the amazingly talented illustrator, Marmee.

Her peculiar long necked beauties are one of a kind and will be a shame to miss....
Somehow, the pink hues on the cheeks seems to bring the work together.

Visit her etsy here and also her blog here.

an illustration a day

The work of Rosie Music which is inspired by fashion, music, traveling and illustrations from children books has really captured my attention..

Her drawings of figures wearing bird masks earn a hotspot on my wall...

For support or to simply visit her shop, click here.

or visit her flickr, here.

Amazing pieces by Irena

Oh how I love this beautiful illustrations and collages by Irena Sophia.

The soft neutral colours give a sense of innocence and delicateness to her images..

Ohh,, I love them so much!!

Please visit her etsy shop here to purchase her amazing pieces,

or simply drop by her blog to show some much needed support and respect