my love for you is a stampede of horses.

Tessa Hulls.

Tessa Hulls recently reached out to me to share her new, colorful, nomadic series. I am so happy she did. I dig the brightness & the folkloric feel to her work. Here she shares her inspiration & the story behind this tribe:

"This current series is called Scenes From the Exodus, and while I’m not entirely sure where my nomads are going, they’re certainly packing up their culture and striking out in search of some new concept of home.

About a year ago I became really fascinated by the malleability of memory, and began to view the process of forgetting as an active and anthropomorphic process. I started to envision a series of characters that I call memory nomads, and have been illustrating their journeys as a way to approach the manner in which our impressions of the past lose focus and change over time. I’m excited to see where they wind up"

This Is All I Know: Helena Bonham Carter Portraits.

Clementine.

Amanda Blake of this is all I know tweeted about portraits of Helena Bonham Carter she had painted after watching A Room with a View, the Merchant/Ivory film. I love the work that Amanda does, her oil paintings are so haunting and I was easliy taken with these portraits of HBC. I asked her to tell us a little about them:

"I recently watched "Room with a View"and while Italy was of course gorgeous and Jeremy Irons rather perfect, mostly I adored watching a young Helena Bonham Carter.  After years of painting hundreds of these little portrait blocks I'm always looking for new inspiration and so this is my little batch inspired by Helena Bonham Carter's huge Victorian updos and heart-shaped face."

LOVE IT. You can purchase one of these original beauts in her big cartel shop.

Maisie.

Delilah.

Lisa Hanawalt: Rumors I've Heard About Anna Wintour.

My friend Mattie posted this hilarious post from Lisa Hanawalt titled 'Rumors I've Heard About Anna Wintour'  on The Hairpin. It's making the Internet rounds, as it should. Every single drawing is so great! I have written about Lisa a lot and love everything she does. Her humor is off the wall nutso hilarious & her drawing skills are excellent. Be sure to check out the full post.

All images from The Hairpin.

Katy Horan & Alexis Mackenzie: BLOOM & GLOOM.

Last month I set out over to Oakland to check out BLOOM & GLOOM, Katy Horan's & Alexis Mackenzie's show at Swarm Gallery. However, after having din din with friends I arrived at the gallery to find it closed. The show ended at 8 and I was over an hour late. Too bad, so sad! Anyway, the show isn't over for another week and a half so I wanted to get a post up. Both of these ladies are super talented...and make a perfect match to show with. Enjoy!

If you aren't familiar with Katy's and Alexis' work. Katy works in the earthy gouache and Alexis works in the delicate collage.

Frohawk Two Feathers.

Just spotted this piece by Frohawk Two Feathers on Taylor De Cordoba Gallery's site, I would gladly own this piece in a heart beat if money grew on trees. In fact, if that was the case I would gladly own more than this piece from Frohawk. No brainer.