MirrorCradle and Nati

I missed out last Wednesday's entry because of all the Christmas excitement, so this week is a double instalment. Also, Happy New Year to everyone too!

Anyway, enjoy!


MirrorCradle or Abigail Larson says on her website that she is influnces range from Edgar Allen Poe to Lewis Carroll to Dr. Seuss, but change weekly. She also says that her greatest artistic influences have been Arthur Rackham, John William Waterhouse and Edward Gorey.

Abigail's work has been published in Ink Magazine, Pentacle Magazine, Third Eye Games and 'Sikeston - Volume 1 - by Holly Messinger'.

Abigail and her art can be found at her website and deviantART

H.P. Lovecraft
Ink and Photoshop

Undertaker's Cabinet
Ink and Photoshop

Kaye's Carousel
Ink and Photoshop.
Kaye is the main character of Holly Black's novel 'Tithe'.

Nati is an Italian fantasy illustrator and comic book artist. She works part time as a freelance artist. Nati mainly uses markers in a painting style, often utilising mixed techniques like watercolour, coloured pencils and soft pastels.

Her work has been published in 'Fairy Tale' music album by Ken Young, 'Dolls' Collectors News', issue no. 52, Italy, 'Precious Things' her first solo art-book, 'Realms of Fantasy' magazine, US, 'ImagineFX', UK, 'Gothic Art now', 'Realms of Fantasy' magazine, US, 'Coyote Magazine' issue #28, France, 'Japanese Magazine', Japan, 'Realms of Fantasy' magazine, US, 'Cricket Magazine', US, 'Fées Divers Magazine', France, 'Art Scene International Magazine', from Vest-Netz , Germany, 'MONO' issue # 03, Edizioni Tunue', Italy.

Nati and her artwork can be found at her website, deviantART and you can also buy prints of her work at her Etsy.

Spring Wind
Markers and coloured pencils on paper.

Fairy Tale
Markers, pencils and white acrylic.

Wandering Star

Pantone Tria markers by Letraset, Copic markers by Too.Japan and water soluble pencils by Caran D'Ache.

lolita-art

lolita-art, real name Daniela Uhlig, is a female 27 year old digital painter and illustrator from Berlin, Germany. At the moment she works for a company, creating designs, illustrations and graphics. At the same time Daniela also works as a freelance artist in the same area of work.

Daniela's art is always full of strong characters, they all seem to have a personality and really come out of the screen. None of the characters are flat; they all have a bit of a twist to them, something about them that makes them seem real.

Daniela is currently in an exhibition in Berlin.

OPTICAL PATCHWORK 13.Nov - 18.Dez 2009
Information
Location: Box 32 - Boxhagenerstr. 32 - 10245 Berlin/F-hain
Vernissage: 13. Nov 09 / 7 pm
Finissage: 18. Dez 09 / 7 pm

Gun Girl II
Part of a series


Portrait of a Girl II
A modern interpretation of lolita
Part of a series


Cap
A 1 hour speedpaint based on an old sketch.

Daniela and her art can be found at
http://lolita-art.deviantart.com/
http://www.du-artwork.de
http://danielauhlig.blogspot.com

Clap-san

Clap-san, also known as Nguyễn Hoàng Phong Anh, is a traditional artist from Vietnam. He works predominantly in pencil, ink and watercolour on A4 paper, though he does occasionally venture into digital mediums.

Stagnancy
Pencils and white ink on A4 Canson paper.

The Moon Lute
Clap-san explained:
_{"Áo Dài" again} ♥ and "Đàn Nguyệt" - The Moon Lute, one of Traditional Vietnamese musical instruments, it's also called two-chords guitar. I totally don't know how to play this instrument, so... she's just posing, haha..... ;__; *blame me*
The scene behind her is "Hoàn Kiếm" lake (Return Sword lake), one famous location in Hanoi - Vietnam's capital.

Photoshop CS, 2 days

Leaving This Rainy Day
Watercolor, mechanical pencil and white ink on 229x305 mm Campap paper.

Clap-san can be found at http://clap-san.deviantart.com/, his blog is A Cut-Rope Kite and information about commissions is here.

NadezhdaVasile

NadezhdaVasile or Serena Verde is a talented traditonal artist from Italy. The vast majority of her art is created by simply using different kinds of pencils (Mechanical, wooden pencils B, 1B, 2B, 3B, HB, 2H) on sketch paper.

Serena often offers trades, takes commissions and runs competitions.

Bad Hair Day for Lady Sunshine

Studying is so tiresome

Suspicious Lily

Serena Verda's stunning art can be found at http://nadezhdavasile.deviantart.com/ and information about her commissions is here.

hellobaby

hellobaby is a wonderful artist on deviantART, not just for their amazing talent but because they are also a very friendly, welcoming and warm individual. hellobaby promotes artists, helps artists in need by spreading the word about them and is generally involved with the online art community.

The Fool

Make a green world

Magic of Silent

hellobaby uses traditional art materials.
-Mechanical pencil lead 2B(pentel), regular eraser (pentel), ball point pen 0.1 (Pigma, Sakura), black/gray copics for effect sometimes, PaperOne paper and Faber Castel classic colors pencils (48 colors).

For more information about hellobaby's art visit her FAQ
hellobaby can be found at http://hellobaby.deviantart.com/

PocketOwl

PocketOwl is the username of 23 year old Becky, a traditional artist from New Zealand.

Becky and her partner Frank have been creating comics for 5 years, and have made contributions to Popgun Vol. 3 and 4, You Ain’t No Dancer Vol. 3 and Discovered.

They also have a web comic called Tiny Kitten Teeth, a "hand painted online comic that updates at least three times a week. The comic follows the slice-of-life adventures of Mewsli, a fish out of water in Owltown, a compact metropolis built around a particularly affluent arts college. Every week we take a break from the story and go visit our friend Tigerbuttah, a little tiger who doesn’t know much about life yet."

Becky is a graduate of Savannah College of Art & Design in Sequential Art. She mainly uses traditional mediums, such as gouache paints and ink.

Catwoman with Spotted Cat
Gouache paints and a brush pen on watercolour paper

BlueBEARy and Jaffa Cream
Gouache paints and ink

Okapi

Becky can be found at http://pocketowl.deviantart.com/ and Tiny Kitten Teeth

Janaschi

The incredibly talented Janashi is a female, digital painter from Germany, she lives in both Leipzig and Cologne.


From her artists comments: "This is the charity collaboration commission for the lovely Gossymer, who won our auction by bidding to donate $629.99 to Unicef! ... It's a collaboration with Algenfleger. "




I think that what makes Janashi's art so breathtaking is that it so easily fools you into believing, at first, that it is a photograph, then it leaves you astounded that in fact it is a digital painting.

Then you can only wonder as to how one woman can be full of so much talent, and patience.

Janaschi can be found at: http://janaschi.deviantart.com

About

Kokoro is Japanese for 'heart', not the heart that beats beneath your ribs but the heart that you give to another. It is the thing that makes you, you. The 'self' in 'yourself'.

This blog aims to introduce readers to artists who are often relatively unknown, but whose work is full of talent and heart.