this week’s creative resources.

Creative Resources is a weekly feature that showcases links to inspiring articles & other resources found on the internet for emerging to established artists (or art lovers!). Have you read or blogged about any good creative articles lately? Let me know and you’ll receive full credit for any recommendations that appear.

Here’s this week’s round-up:

  1. Penguin Releases New Embroidered CoversPikaland shares Jillian Tamaki’s beautiful embroidery work on Penguin’s new line of classic novels including “The Secret Garden” and “Black Beauty”.
  2. Harmony Mix – I couldn’t help but feature another one of Kate Miss’s wonderful playlists from her blog – this one features dreamy, almost all acoustic songs with great harmony. I’ve been listening to it all rainy weekend!
  3. For the Love of Type - Christine Castro Hughes shares some good information for type-enthusiasts such as the different between font vs. typeface and where to get your hands on free font downloads.
  4. Advice: How to Charge Your Clients- Designlovefest’s got a great advice column for graphic designers in-the-making – this one has some helpful tips on how to figure out your pricing.
  5. Free Photo Editing Apps to Replace Picnik – What will those of us non-Photoshop users do now that Picnik has closed? Oh My! Homemade has compiled a useful round of links to help you spruce up your photos for free.
  6. Using Your Creativity to its Full Potential – Promise Tangeman’s fabulous article on how you are the idea-maker, not your computer, and the importance of signing off and sketching in the beginning stages of a new creative undertaking.

fashion photography > glow in the dark.

Bao Yanzhou is a Chinese photographer currently living in Japan whose most recent series of photographs feature a pretty girl covered in billowing layers of sequined fabrics that are then basked in dreamy lights and blurred for an eerie yet captivating effect.

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photography > up in the air.

Elli Jaeger is an exciting photographer in Cape Town, South Africa whose series of photos of girls flying up into the air with the help of balloon bouquets and umbrellas was such a happy surprise to stumble upon. Not only is this girl super imaginative when it comes to digital photography, but she also illustrates!

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this week’s creative resources.

Creative Resources is a weekly feature that showcases links to inspiring articles & other resources found on the internet for emerging to established artists (or art lovers!). Have you read or blogged about any good creative articles lately? Let me know and you’ll receive full credit for any recommendations that appear.

Here’s this week’s round-up:



  1. Mood Board Books to Inspire – Holly from Decor8 talks about her love for mood board books and how they help her to track all of her inspiration.
  2. Photography: 10 Things Not to Do – A Beautiful Mess compiled this helpful list of commonly made mistakes by beginning amateur photographers.
  3. A Guide to 20 Top Artist Residences and Retreats Across the U.S. – An amazingly informative guide for anyone who has ever wondered about artist residencies and how to land one of their very own.
  4. Marco Mazzoni - Amazing colored pencil drawings by Marco Mazzoni (via Booooooom).
  5. Juried Paintings in Print - New American Paintings is now accepting submissions for their next publication on paintings from artists in the Western U.S.
  6. DIY Chalkboard RoundupAlison of The Alison Show compiles a list of fun projects you can create with a chalkboard or chalkboard paint from all around the blogosphere.

photography > oil & water.

oil water rainbow blobs floating

Kathy Koch is an experimental photographer in Raleigh, NC who curiously wondered what it would look like if she filled a long flower vase with oil and water, set it over a tie-dyed t-shirt, and photographed through the vase with a macro filter on her lens. The result, as you can see, was magnificent. Liquid orbs float around over a multicolored rainbow background in such a way that proves that oil and water really do go together quite well, psychedelically speaking that is.

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this week’s creative resources.

Creative Resources is a weekly feature that showcases links to inspiring articles & other resources found on the internet for emerging to established artists (or art lovers!). Have you read or blogged about any good creative articles lately? Let me know and you’ll receive full credit for any recommendations that appear.

Here’s this week’s round-up:

  1. Why You Should Have Your Own Website – You may think you’ve got all of your bases covered with Facebook, Twitter, and maybe even Flickr and Etsy, but Amy Ng of Pikaland explains why it’s so important to have your own website as well.
  2. Recipe for Press – A new book by Amy Flurry teaches you how to pitch your story/artwork/designs/business to the press like a pro to get the best results.
  3. DIY: Stamped Envelope Liners – A fun do-it-yourself project to spruce up envelopes for letters and cards via Oh Happy Day!
  4. Photography + Presentation - A helpful article on the best way to present your work if you’re trying to sell it in an online shop via Jane Reaction.
  5. Book Review: Draw it With Your Eyes Closed – Pattern Pulp reviews a great book with miniature art school assignments to help you break out of your creative shell.
  6. Process: Siobhan Gallagher – Another fabulous walk-through of the process by which a talented illustrator translates hand-drawn sketches to magnificent digital artwork via Ten Paces and Draw.

photography > junior birds.

Junior is a family lifestyle magazine based in the UK that has the cutest children’s fashion editorials. Usually it would be a little unsettling to see younger girls posing as older ones, but Junior manages to keep their childlike essence alive and well rather than resorting to some sort of “Toddlers & Tiaras”-esque aesthetic. In this one, Nick & Chloé photographed a bunch of budding fashionistas posing with props created by Le Creative Sweatshop for Junior’s April 2012 issue.

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