Joana Rosa Bragança
Posted by Amy on Tuesday March 9, 2010
Joana Rosa Bragança is an illustrator based in Portugal and can I just say how lovely her work is? Everything is so pretty and beautifully detailed – she has mad watercolor skills! I’m so in love with how she draws people too: soft, rounded and fluid. Check out the lack of elbows. SWOON.
Check out her flickr and here’s her blog about her little pet!
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Christine Pym
Posted by Amy on Wednesday March 3, 2010
Beautiful watercolour illustrations from Christine Pym who studied Illustration for Children’s Publishing at the North East Wales Institute in the UK. She’s illustrated one book entitled The Tail of the Whale which will be out soon! I love how she talks about achieving a balance between your own vision and what the market wants in this blog post of hers on her experience after she graduated from university.
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ooli
Posted by Racheal Anilyse on Monday March 1, 2010
Ooli is an illustrator/artist from Saint Petersburg, Russia. The delicate transparencies in her watercolor paintings are really a thing of beauty. Chilly, quiet, calm, I feel she’s taken us to a mythological world where snow is about to fall.
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Stacey Rozich
Posted by Amy on Tuesday January 19, 2010
If you love folk art, then you’ll surely love Stacey Rozich’s bold folk drawings done in gouache and watercolor. Born and raised in Seattle, Washington, she studied Illustration at California College of Arts in San Francisco and is quite the whiz in simple pen and ink line drawings.
Her work evokes memories of when I used to read children’s books (Asian ones), filled with images of carved Chinese lions guarding the palace gate and other mythical beings. I love how Stacey incorporates elements from various folk stories and creates beautiful creatures from them.
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Julie Annis for Camera Obscura
Posted by Amy on Tuesday December 29, 2009
I’m not due back blogging until next Monday, but I just wanted to pop in and mention the wonderful work that Julie Annis has been doing for the indie band Camera Obscura from Glasgow, Scotland (I think she did the illustrations for their website as well). The one featured here is the band’s latest single that came out early December, and you can see more on her portfolio page.
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music monday: itunes a-z
Posted by Racheal Anilyse on Monday October 26, 2009
It’s Music Monday! Instead of sharing a playlist, I thought I’d share some illustrations from a Pikaland favorite Jen Collins [aka hellojenuine]. Jen has started an A-Z illustration list from her itunes. Check out the set of musicians and artwork here.
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Giveaway #22: Flora Douville's prints + collage set
Posted by Amy on Wednesday October 21, 2009
Oh, this is a whopper of a giveaway.
The lovely Flora Douville has graciously set up not one, but TWO packs containing (are you ready for this?) seven, YES, SEVEN prints and one original collage for each set.
I’ve been a big fan of hers (love her watercolor animal alphabet prints that she sent in for the PikaPackage Project last year), so trust me when I tell you this is a true treat.
Comment below before the 27th of October 29th October and we’ll pick out TWO lucky commentors! {the giveaway is EXTENDED for an additional two days due to the server move!}
UPDATE: Commenting has now closed, thanks for participating!
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Giveaway #8: Victoria Usova's prints
Posted by Amy on Wednesday September 2, 2009
Victoria Usova is offering TWO Pikaland readers a print each from her shop! The Flying Fish and a print of Little Hedgehog Made a Flying Ship will each be sent to the lucky commenters.
The giveaway will be closed on Tuesday, 8th September!
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Want another giveaway? Why sure, watch this space and we’ll dole out another one in a few hours! I think we’re going to rename this day of the week as Giveaway Tuesdays from now on!
UPDATE: Commenting has now closed, thanks for participating!
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Karen Cheung
Posted by Amy on Friday July 24, 2009
Karen Cheung is an illustrator and animator based in the UK with a wonderful style. Her characters are lively and fun, as are her sketches in graphite. She was the winner of the Macmillan prize for Children’s Picture Book Illustration in 2006 — not a bad feat at all for someone who used to be a zoologist!
Looking through her beautiful website, it’s evident she has an offbeat sense of humor that I appreciate. Watch out for this lady, as she’s planning to open up shop soon!
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Ideenweide
Posted by Amy on Tuesday July 14, 2009
Loving the wonderful ethereal qualities of Ideenweide’s watercolor paintings and her choice of palette.
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