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Enhanced Beauty: Spiros Halaris

We all have our product loyalties.  Mr. F is fiercely loyal to King Arthur Flour, for instance.  Sometimes, as in Mr. F’s case, it’s about how the product performs, in others, it’s because we are enchanted by not just…

Daily Artsy Paintings Still Life

Fresh Graphics: Kate Mullin

Days are getting shorter, nights are cooler, and kids everywhere are headed back to school.  Summer’s end is near, and as much as I’m looking forward to the arrival of my favorite season, I do hate to see some…

Daily Artsy Paintings Still Life

A Sublime Display: Jan de Vliegher

Maybe it was all the costume dramas I watched with my mom as a kid.  Or maybe it was all those fairy tales my grandmother read to me.  This abstract-lovin’ Artsy is also a sucker for all things with…

Daily Artsy Paintings Still Life

Beauty Confined: Carlos San Millan

As someone who works from home, I spend a lot of time within the walls of each of our temporary homes.  And when you’re staring at the same walls each day, one of two things happens:  a) you begin to…

Daily Artsy Paintings Still Life

Life Fragments: Emily Ferretti

I’m not sure what it is about Aussie artists, but I am almost inevitably drawn to their work.  Case in point: Emily Ferretti.  Ferretti’s sparsely populated compositions and chalky palette provide an aesthetic salve to an overwhelmed and frenetic…

Daily Artsy Sculpture Still Life

Crystallized Imagination: Alexis Arnold

As Mr. Forager & I go through our belongings, deciding what goes with us and what stays behind, one of the hardest things to part with have been books.  Even as my family was packing up our Florida storage,…

Daily Artsy Paintings Still Life

Gentle Awakening: Alex Hanna

Hello again, my friends!  If you noticed an increased Artsy presence on social media last week, you may have guessed what I’m about to tell you– the whole job thing didn’t work out as I’d hoped it would.  I…

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Artsy on Escape Into Life: Anna Pogossova

When I first saw the work of photographer Anna Pogossova on The Artful Desperado blog, I was completely enchanted by her use of color.  So I couldn’t resist featuring her in my Artist Watch on Escape Into Life!  Check…

Daily Artsy Figurative Paintings Still Life

Mundane Beauty: Emil Robinson

Many of us have a love/hate relationship with Instagram.  Maybe we love that voyeuristic glimpse into other people’s lives.  Perhaps we hate that their lives might seem more glamorous than our own.  What I personally love is the way…

Untitled by Thrush Holmes
Daily Artsy Paintings Still Life

Electrified Flora: Thrush Holmes

Forget those boring old still lifes from your grandma’s era.  Artists like Thrush Holmes are taking that classic subject and reinterpreting it through modern eyes.  The result is anything but boring. Neon-hued petals in flattened, simplified shapes let you…