More Nakashima

Sampling - Acrylic and Wool

Playing with layering, light, shadow and illustration :) I'm pretty pleased with where my experimentation took me. It's not what I imagined...but I think I like it.

Now I'd like to really push the storytelling aspect.

Kiyoshi Nakashima

Kiyoshi Nakashima is an artist local to where my mum's aunt lives in Japan (So my memory says). He paints beautiful pictures of Japanese landscapes and young children playing in them. Often the children are sad or crying. I love them because they are melancholy and beautiful.

Josef Frank

I heart Josef Frank's designs - they are so joyful and have a sort of innocence. Bright and beautiful. See more on the Svenskt Tenn website.

E.W.Moore & Son

Joy. I just found this site of vintage wallpaper :D Delicious. I was looking through my old journals of stuff-that-i-like, and found an old elle deco cutting...looked it up and mmm.

If I told you once

This is one of my favourite book covers ever. It's so gorgeous and simple. There is clear gloss print of snowflakes and text all over it too that you only see at certain angles! :) Book is pretty good too, like a fairy tale and also real. Enchanted reality! And the grotesque. There's a part where a woman has many husbands who all die, turns out it's because she tests them by going away and telling them not to go in a certain room, but they do and inside is a stunning girl fast asleep...but it's a doll with a mighty metal jaw of teeth between its legs.

Shawn Lovell has made my dream bed.

I want this bed. This is The bed. The bed of dreams. My bedroom shall be like a forest and this shall be my bed. Shawn Lovell...please make one for me!