my love for you is a stampede of horses.

hey, i like this: raymond saa.

most times i get a little anxious right before i sit down to write a post. i get blog fright. (put me down for wiki! i coined it.) i've been thinking a lot about the writing in the blog lately, i try really hard to not come over douchey. although, writing just that may have achieved the very thing i was trying to avoid. ha! but anyway, sometimes i get nervous about what i am going to say about an artist's work. for instance i don't want to say things that do not directly convey how i actually feel about a person's work. but honestly, it's really hard to come up w/ different adjectives everyday for art that i basically just love. sometimes all i want to say is: hey, i really like this, check it out. but that would be a bit boring if every post was like that. however, today i am cutting myself some slack and adding a new daily installment here at my love for you. so...here is my very first installment of "hey, i like this. you might too!" or "hey, lookie here!" or "wow, this is sooo cool!!" or something to that effect...you get the picture. i will just post images w/ the artists website and maybs a few more tidbits, but that is it! so let's do this!

raymond saa's black and white sumi ink paintings and charcoal drawings.

stephanie dowell. part one.

once stephanie dowell moved to austin, tx she was forced to experiment w/ all sorts of different mediums after leaving her oils and canvases behind in a storage unit in portland. having worked mainly w/ oils since she was only a wee five year old, stephanie began to experiment w/ all sorts of mediums. stephanie employs everything from glitter pens, metallic pencils, pearlescent inks to colored pencils and water colors. she's been having a grand time sorting out her process w/ her latest work. she draws, scans, tweaks in photoshop, then draws some more, scans them again, photoshops a bit more and then repeats the process til she's happy w/ her images. what has emerged are adorably forlorn electro kitties, flourescent mazes and acid trip landsacapes. a little bit reminiscent of the black velvet paintings i so badly wanted by bff's older brother douglas to win for me when i was 12, i can't help but want one of these images for my bedroom. oh but wait! stephanie is also a super talented photographer...just check out the post below.

stephanie dowell. part two.

will you just check out the photograph above of the deer? amazing, right? i may be a bit bias, as i love deer. i actually have two deer tattooed on my left arm. so yes, i guess i am partial. but once i saw this image i had to see more of stephanie dowell's photographs. i am always so intrigued and inspired by people who work in many mediums. more! more! i just love dynamic people. you can see more of stephanie's photographs on her flickr page. you can oooh and awww, add her as a friend and do what any real cyber friend would do and 'favorite' and comment on her photographs! we love the world wide intrawebs.

grady mcferrin.

sometimes i get so lost on the internet and i honestly have no idea where the time goes. i just click, click and click and all of a sudden hrs have passed. i got in from cape cod a few hrs ago and have been catching up on emails and looking through my folders of things i want to post about this week. i always ask artists before i post, so i have a method to the way in which i catalog what i will write about. i have folders that are 'to check out this week', 'possible' and 'to write about'. they translate like this: 1st folder is to check out the websites i have bookmarked, the 2nd is artists i have sent emails to and am now waiting for a response and the 3rd folder is artists i have heard back from whom i now need to post about, respectively. i have gotten way more efficient since i started this blog...but for some reason in the beginning there were a few artists i contacted and never wrote about. for no other reason than i just had not ironed out a method to the madness that is this art blog in my brain.

grady mcferrin is one of those artist's websites that got lost in the shuffle. a professional illustrator and an artist, grady works w/ beautifully muted hues. he really inspires me to want to sit down and draw more. i think his work is so beautiful and i selfishly wish his website was a wee bit more current. anyway, friends...i've got lots of good posts to get up this week and i'm working on some great q&a's for the next couple of weeks! oh! and there will be some good give aways later on this summer! yay! hope you all had a rad weekend.

happy 4th!

well, i am just missing the ball w/ the folks over at 20x200. they released this print today from colin blakely and WHAM, it sold out in a heartbeat. ahhhh well, good on them!

i hope you guys have a lovely 4th of july weekend, i will be in cape cod w/ my dog, riding my bike and loving the water. big hugs to all of you, have a safe and wonderful 4th! i'll see you next week. hugs, meighan.

**p.s. oh! i picked the winner's for the hannah stouffer totes! you know who you are! yay!**