my love for you is a stampede of horses.

Reader LOVE: Lizzy Janssen.

Lizzy Janssen's email arrived in my inbox with her colorful water colored collages and adorable products. Everybody needs a gem t-shirt! Check out her etsy shop, that was just newly updated. Horses, colors and crystals galore. My favorite!

 

Reader LOVE: Jessica Robles.

Jessica Robies sent me an email recently introducing herself that was so short and sweet. I try and look at every link I am sent. I may not always respond, but i always look. I was immediately captivated by the drawings cataloging her shoes and the one line anecdotes that go along with them on Jessica's flickr page. She's a clever girl who can draw with super cute taste in shoes to boot. (Ugh, no pun intended. I swear!)

Reader LOVE: David Gomez.

Well, I wish I could tell you something about David Gomez, but I can't read Spanish. Normally, I always contact the artist...but it's late and when I stumbled on David's colored mugs of celebrities and other lovelies I just had to get these up. Plus, I am a sucker for anything Chloe Sevigny is involved in.

Reader LOVE: Justin Nelson.

Digging these drawings by reader Justin Nelson. Check out his flickr page to see more of his work.

Reader Love: Jane O'Sullivan.

Jane O'Sullivan has been a reader from the get. Jane updates me every couple of months with wildly positive emails of what she is up to and working on. Recently she graduated, finishing up with her first exhibition. She sent this piece 'Always Believe', I think it's gorgeous and I wanted to share it with you guys

Reader Love: Danielle Rizzolo.

Danielle Rizzolo recently sent me the above image, If not now, not ever,and the below, Self portrait I. What I noticed right away about Danielle's work is the subtle detail. It seems almost effortless. I took upon myself to glean a few more images from her site and blog. Pretty nice, right?

Reader Love: Milana Braslavsky.

I don't know much about Milana Braslavsky, other than she takes photos. Her short but sweet email said to me about her work: "It has the bright colors and dark humor you seem to be into." Hook. Line. Sinker. I am sold. Oh that and she signed her email "Yay". I could probably love her.

Reader Love: Gareth Roberts.

Gareth Roberts hit me up while I was in SF...I like his work, especially his take on magician's hands. Who doesn't want to click on a website that's called OH GEE? Gareth has done a bunch of illustrative work for Dazed and Confused, some of which I have posted here. Check him out. Neat-o.

reader love: rebecca volynsky.

I've been a little slack on giving back the love to the reader's here at the blog...for no other reason then I have been swamped and there has been some personal ish where I had to take a little break. So I'm gonna try and really kick it off and have a post every week...to start it off right I wanted to feature Rebecca Volynsky. An artist who currently resides in here in Boston, Rebecca studies printmaking and graphic design. She's a big fan of upcycling and incorporates everything from books she's read in Russian Lit. to found scraps of paper. Her collaged drawings are sweet and I wanted to share them with you all. See more of Rebecca on her flickr page.

reader love: casey blandford.

I got an email from Casy Blandford professing his love for drawing. His work is the latest installment in 'reader love' here on the blog. Here's a little bit about Casey:

I'm from England, but I've lived in Salt Lake City, Utah, since I was seven. There are a lot of things that I like... To many to list, but some that come to mind are: drawing, coffee, nature documentaries, synthesizers, skulls, umbrellas, graffiti, tattoos, making and listening to music, reading, friends and family, cooking, robots, symbols, shoes, notes, and lists. My drawings are just little snapshots of the world inside my head, and as it evolves, so do they. I'm excited that there's so much going on and being created in the world nowadays, and I want to learn about as much of it as I can.

reader love: adrienne vita.

I just love this teeny tiny painting demure by Adrienne Vita. Isn't she the cutest little thing you've ever seen? LOVE. IT. You can see more of Adrienne's work on her site.

reader love.

pip stafford is an unashamed blog addict, a drawer of pictures, a maker of videos and a drinker of hot beverages, including but not limited to earl grey tea and soy lattes, so her adorable little blog bio reads. pip sent me a few of her images telling me that she is acting on a recent resolution to become more brave at showing off her pictures. i'm delighted that she's made this resolution and reached out to me, nothing makes me happier than people following their dreams and believing in themselves. cause if you don't believe ain't noone else gonna. you can read pip's blog here. check out those tattoos she just designed!

reader love: the tiny little girl.

i started this blog a little bit over a year ago to post about things i really loved and was inspired by. in that time my love for you has since taken on a life of it's own. becoming specifically an art blog, my love for you now focuses on low brow art, illustration, craft, D.I.Y. culture just to name a few of the main genres with lots of others.

as the blog changes and grows i often think of ways to make it more dynamic and to get the readers more involved. in the past year i have gotten so many sweet, encouraging and kind emails from people all over the world. it's truly heartwarming. as the blog has begun to be linked in many different places (thank you! thank you!) among the emails i have started to receive are 'submissions' from readers. which is such an honor...really, it's been such a great experience.

as a way to give back to the readers who make this blog much of what it has become, i want to start sharing these submissions as a regular feature on the blog. so to kick off the first installment of reader love i'm featuring beth wachla of the tiny little girl. beth makes skull brooches from wool felt. her skulls are brightly colored w/ lots of detail and bead work. i asked beth a few questions so we could get to know her right quick. her brooches remind me of day of the dead. they'll be a perfect way to add color to your life as we get closer to winter.

i'm delighted to have beth as the beginning of what i hope to be a great addition to my love for you. give her some love!

tell us a little bit about your work:
i design and hand-sew one of a kind skully brooches from wool felt, glass beads and teeny, tiny buttons and sell them under the label the tiny little girl. i'm only relatively new to the selling side of things, my business is just very small at the moment!

when did you start making your skull brooches?
i only started making them around 5 or 6 months ago, i made a little one as a jokey thing, then listed it on etsy and it sold! things just flowed on from there.

what inspires you?
i'm inspired by colour. i love to create using as much colour as possible! my flat looks like a rainbow exploded in it so i like to show that side of me in my work.

where do you live?
i live in perth western australia in a tiny bedsit flat with the only houseplant i could ever keep alive, mr. herbert greenleaf. he's a trooper.

where can your work be found online?
i have an etsy store - www.thetinylittlegirl.etsy.com and i have a new bunch of skully fellows available on www.shopmoose.com.au (a fantastic aussie online store!).

***if you have work you'd like to send to the blog for consideration to be featured in reader love, please just click on the envelope up to the left under the pic of our next president.***