senseless acts of beauty

Art & Ghosts
5.11.2008

Last night I was visiting Creature comforts fabulous blog, and was really inspired by the way she's visually linked her favorite design and style blogs. I'm still over here flipping over it, it's fantastic!

Over time I've found so many wonderful artists through sites like flickr, myspace, blogger, typepad, etsy... etc. that I've been wanting to share here. So inspired by last nights clicking spree, I've decided to kick into a new category today: Blogging The Artist's way.

I'm fascinated with seeing other artist's processes, and inspirations so I'm really excited about having a visual archive of all of the new sites I'm finding.

I originally found Louise's work through flickr, whose blog Art and Ghosts and etsy shop I'm featuring today.

I'm always drawn to dreamy imagery that simultaneously has adult and childlike qualities, and a combination of dark and light emotion. They are little digital wonders, and make me want to use terms here like... image apparitions, and happy phantoms.

Her work also reminds me of a cross between two other digital artists that I really admire, Maggie Taylor and Loretta Lux.

To see more visit Louise's blog: Art and Ghosts.

Labels: Blogging_the_Artists_way

posted by Liquid Sky Arts at 7:34 AM

5.07.2008

Thanks so much for your supportive comments about our move. They kept my spirits up!

After all of this moving around, I'm ready for some serious downtime! We took the weekend to unpack and organize. When I became so tired I couldn't move any more I did what any exhausted person would do, I caught up on some cheesy cable shows. For some reason I keep finding myself watching, "Kimora: Life in the Fab Lane". To be honest, half the time I'm cringing and holding the remote in the air. Just frozen in my tracks unable to turn the channel. She's a force of nature!

I'm loving how the area we just moved to is both developed and undeveloped. To one side of our neighborhood is a vineyard, and the other pasture. Our neighbors have two horses. I've been bribing them with handfuls of baby carrots to try and get them to pop their heads over to the fence. It didn't take long for them to catch on to my little game. Now they come trotting at full speed whenever they see us. I'm seriously fond of them, they are in dire need of some cute nicknames.

Here's a peek into our new place, still plenty of work to get fully settled in, but we're definitely off to a great start.

Labels: creative_gardening

posted by Liquid Sky Arts at 7:30 AM

Good Times
4.23.2008

Over the weekend we were running back and forth from house to house, moving our things to and fro while what I've now dubbed as "second winter" drifted in covering everything in town in pure white snow. As we drove up to our new place I instantly noticed this amazing display of purple roses waiting at our front door. Although there was no note, I had a good hunch it was from my rock star friend. These lovelies, have helped make the chaos of this move a much sweeter experience. After this week, we should be all settled in.

I also got a really special package from my talented friend Monica up in Astoria this weekend, with some very skillfully quilted lantern potholders she made in her amazing home studio. I've been seriously cautioned that if I don't use them and get them dirty... she won't invite my husband over for leftovers anymore while he's on his trips up North (A little inside joke). Too funny!

I've been happily creating in the studio over at PaPaYa HQ this week. It's wonderful to get back into my creative flow playing with pattern and fun color combinations.

& Here's a peek at my desk, where all of the good creative juju happens at PaPaYa! (thanks to the camera on iphone, again).

Labels: Everyday_Magic, PaPaYa_Creative_Abandon

posted by Liquid Sky Arts at 4:12 PM

Halloween Sneak Peek for PaPaYa! Creative Abandon
4.19.2008

This week at PaPaya we closed our doors to the studio, cranked up the radio and worked on some new designs for Halloween. It always amazes me how far ahead of time you have to get on these things in the design realm. Last spring when the sun finally came out in Astoria, I was filling my home studio with Christmas tunes to get in the mood while designing for the holiday line. No joke!

....To see Anahata's quirky & wonderful cast of characters be sure to visit the Halloween sneak peek page over at PaPaYa!

Labels: PaPaYa_Creative_Abandon

posted by Liquid Sky Arts at 9:41 AM

Back in boxes
4.13.2008

Next week we'll be pulling our rental house and garden apart to pack up and move again. My shoulders instantly slumped when the letter arrived saying we had 30 days to move in order to renovate and sell the place.

I'd become really smitten with this house, because it seemed like such a perfect fit for our arrival in Ashland. But as John Lennon once said, "Life is what happens when you're busy making plans". So, please wish us luck!

Labels: photography

posted by Liquid Sky Arts at 6:25 PM

Affordable reproductions
4.02.2008

My aunt had this beautiful oil painting of a woman in a red kimono in her living room when we recently visited her in California. The moment I laid eyes on it, I was instantly smitten. Last week she sent me the link to Tealan's webshop where she purchased it. I'm so over the moon about it, it's absolutely lovely and SO affordable.

Thanks to my iphone again, I can give you a little peek of this painting hanging in my aunt's living room. It was late in the day and taken in dim lighting, so the photo isn't the best... but I'm sure you'll get the idea!

Labels: Inspirations

posted by Liquid Sky Arts at 8:36 PM

Downtown in China Town
3.29.2008

We just came home from a whirlwind trip down to Southern California, to visit our family and old friends over Easter. It was so warm and sunny down there, just look at that blue sky!

My Aunt lives near China Town (one of our favorite old haunts in Los Angeles), and suggested we take a visit together to check out all of the eye-popping colors that they recently painted the buildings. It was definitely one of the highlights of our trip.