Stumbled upon the work of Miguel Porto today. Neat comic stuff on his flickr. Great work!

Gale Kaseguma is one of those artists whose website I’ve had in my bookmarks for ages, and I kinda forgot about, until today when I received an email from her mailing list announcing updates to her site, Kidmodern.com. It’s clean and pretty, easy to navigate, and full of colorful happy art intended for children. Gale’s [...]

Another watch-worthy artist demo–this time by Georgia watercolorist Jim Chapman (his color commentary, and the ambient sounds of crickets, locusts and crows ice the cake).
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After viewing his video, be sure to read his artist’s columns. Jim is a contributing editor to the Artist’s Magazine publications.
Speaking of which, there is an [...]

Are your drink coasters dull? Are they boring and uninspired? Well, they need not be drab any longer!  Claire Louise Milne has posted a beautiful tutorial on how you can make your very own custom set of coasters!

I haven’t really done a roundup style post before (it almost feels like cheating), but it seems like I’ve been hit from all sides today with beautiful and curious-making blog entries, so here we go:
From Kottke.org (via waxy.org), we discover the work of Tim Knowles, who explores the imprints of motion and gives the power [...]

“Draw anyway (when you think you can’t and even if you could you haven’t got any time and everyone said your last picture was fab, until you told them what it was meant to be, and, look, you never said you could draw, anyway, right?)”
Myfanwy Nixon’s new site is great for a little extra encouragement [...]

…Guide to Watercolor Painting is by Bruce MacEvoy.
It may be self-proclaimed, but I do believe it. I could spend years reading it. Too many highlights to highlight. So just go and check it out.

At a time when I am getting bored of watercolors, this has been a refreshing find.
His other sites? A little quirky.

A selection of lovely moleskine girls by Julia Bereciartu. According to her flickr site she loves drawing, taking Polaroids, moleskines, collages, cooking, cinema and my her friends!