Leafty


Tuesday June 24, 2008

Clockwise from top left: Cloud People; Earthworm Love; Felicity Speckled Robin; and Sunbloomer miniature art toys

Have you seen the adorable miniature art toys made from reinforced paperclay by D.Platypus and Cocoakoala (yes, those are their monikers!) at Leafty?

You can see more at their Flickr and also read their blog for more cutesy goodness.

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Roadside Projects


Monday June 16, 2008

Project 002/ Part 017, Balloon Travel — Sold out

I remember trying to make a 3D illustration box once — something like a shadow box that’s illustration based. Of course, my first foray into the medium ended up far from being perfect. In fact, it was quite the disaster. So when I saw Jayme McGowan’s fantastic three-dimensional box construction with intricate cut outs, my jaws dropped.

Project 002/ Part 007, Huge Hands — still available

The artist and illustrator working in Sacramento, California, is now working on her second series called Dreamscapes, where most of her work have already sold out, except for this.

You can read more on her blog, or keep a close watch via her Flickr stream.

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Victoria Usova


Friday May 30, 2008

Foxy Fox original painting

Victoria Usova is an artist/illustrator born in Ukraine, but now resides in New York City. I am coveting her Foxy original — check out the eyelashes on them!

You can also browse through her flickr pages where she has loads of her whimsical work up.

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Inca Pan


Monday May 12, 2008

I am in love with Inca Pan’s flickr collection.

I repeat:

I am in love.

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Carla Pessoa


Sunday May 4, 2008

Carla Pessoa is a Portuguese crafter who dabbles a lot in drawing on her blog and she has her own shop too, where she sells her art-infused crafty creations (here’s looking at you Kajsa!)

I rediscovered her flickr pages again last week and I am in love with her illustrations which are mostly collage based.

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Avert your eyes!


Saturday April 26, 2008

Well, I never thought it would come to this, but I think this image (you need to click on it to see the FULL picture because it’s a little NSFK — Not Safe For Kids) is so hilarious! Inappropriate food containers make a mean pair, according to Salva Lopez! And you can wear them too — it’s printed on a t-shirt available on Shirt City.

P/S — I’m not sure what response I’ll get and I might take it down in the morning (it might not seem so funny to me then), but if you find this offensive, PLEASE let me know!

{Image from Salva Lopez’s Flickr page.}

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Nami K


Friday April 25, 2008

Beautiful illustrations & photographs by Nami K.

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And I DO feel better! Thank you for the sweet thoughts that you’ve all been sending my way! :)

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Pikapackage update #2


Saturday April 19, 2008

These came in the mail this week — but since I could only catch the sun during the weekends to take a picture, I could only upload them onto the Pikaland flickr photostream today. Enjoy! :)

  1. Rachel from Elephantine sent in adorable notecards and stickers;
  2. Justin of Justmadbooks sent in his first issue of his Breathers comic books, and Birch, a small picture book;
  3. Heike of Felicitate88 sent in linocut prints, collaged and printed postcards;
  4. Amanda Kindregan sent in her lovely full-sized prints and cards;
  5. Kate of Charmfoundry sent in her beautiful waxy postcard sets;
  6. Kajsa of Syko sent in pretty sketchbooks and lovely postcards inspired from her quilts;
  7. Sarah+Ryan of Labpartners sent in their 3-color letterpressed San Francisco print and many other yummy screenprinted prints; and
  8. Junkyard Sam sent in his wonderfully quirky full-sized prints, mini-prints and tags.

Right now, the total participants is 22 (whoa!), but I’m still waiting for some more participants’ stuff to arrive in the mail, so there’s going to be another update next week! (The rest of the participants can be found in this post.)

As usual, if you want to know how you can be the lucky one to receive a PikaPackage filled to the brim with an item EACH from our participants, you can subscribe to our newsletter so you’ll be the first to know!

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Jenny M


Monday April 14, 2008

Sleeping Cat: A matchbox original

This is rather clueless of me, but Jenny (of Flickr’s greenfemale fame) recently started a shop called Be Happy Now on Etsy selling her art. I’ve been a fan for some time now, but most of her illustrations were only available for viewing, so I’m happy that she now has a shop of her own.

Tiny Books

3 characters drawn on toilet paper rolls!

She’s one of my favorite artists on flickr who draws her whimsical illustrations on almost everything! She is also currently studying, and posts up illustrations based on the topic of old classics – her transformation of text and narration into illustration is very inspiring, mainly because I love storybook illustrations.

A page from her Moleskine sketchbook for the Moleskine Exchange Project

She hails from Israel, and there’s wonderful clips of her Moleskine sketches on YouTube as well. My favorite one so far is her tiny books filled with her illustrations, encased in a felt casing of their own.

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Updates, updates!


Monday April 14, 2008

I have an obsession with lists. And with so many wonderful things that have happened over the last weekend, I thought that I should share by making one to let you know what a fantastic week I had.

Yes! Pikaland was blogged on Bloesom by the lovely Irene. We live in the same city and I can’t wait to meet up with her for coffee one day. Thank you so very much Irene!

I just found out a way to have Pikaland’s post go right to your email inbox — and it’s as easy as can be. If you take a looky to the left of the blog under “pikaland direct!”, just type in your email and click subscribe, you’re well on your way to receiving fresh Pikaland posts whenever the site is updated! If you can’t find it (hey, it happens to the best of us sometimes), then head on here to subscribe.

And if you’d rather receive news on special announcements ONLY, then come on over here to subscribe to our newsletter.

We already have 15 artists in the list for May’s PikaPackage Project, with another 7 (and more!) contributions making its way over! Right now you can see the latest on our Flickr stream.

Here’s a list of the packages I’ve received so far for May:

  1. Laurie from OUOU sent in lovely Gocco cards;
  2. Caitlin from Pepperminte sent in her beautiful work in 4’ x 6’ matte prints;
  3. Manyi from Mau Studio sent in an assortment of buttons, postcards and stickers;
  4. Iris Schwarz sent in beautiful full-sized prints, tags and cards from her Paulette Editions;
  5. Cori of Corid sent in her precious original artwork on wood;
  6. Norma of Crankbunny sent in an assortment of fantastic pop up cards;
  7. Raphaella of Heartful Art sent in inspiring postcards;
  8. Annette of Carambatack sent in full-sized prints of her work;
  9. Susan of It’s a Whimsical Life sent in full sized prints featuring her adorable characters;
  10. Enna sent in postcard packs, envelope packs and her beautiful matrioshka wrapping paper;
  11. Amber Alexander sent in full-sized prints and beautiful cards from her watercolor drawings;
  12. Kristiana of Krisblues sent in beautiful full-sized prints of her illustrations on wood;
  13. Marianne of Appleseed sent in a wonderful array of postcards (prints of her collage works) + paper packs filled with inspiration;
  14. Katrine K sent in full-sized prints and glossies; and
  15. Gemma Correll sent in her very funny and lovely illustrations printed on zines, buttons, a coloring book, stickers and a pop tart brooch!

If you want to know how you can be the lucky one to receive a PikaPackage filled to the brim with an item EACH from our participants, watch out for our giveaway soon! What did I hear you say? You’re scared you’ll miss out? Why, you can subscribe to our newsletter so you’ll be the first to know!

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