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Big thanks to everyone who entered the Win Artsy Stuff: Geoff Mitchell book giveaway! I’m happy to announce the winner of his very own autographed copy of Geoff’s book, Moon Rabbits is Daniel Tjoelker! Congratulations, Daniel! Please send me an email ( artsyforager{at}att.net ) with your mailing address so we can get your book on its way.
Daniel’s favorite piece is Trinket ( pictured below ). Daniel is an artist is his own right, make sure you check out his blog!
*This giveaway ended at 5pm PST on Friday, June 15, 2012. Thanks to all who entered!
I like free stuff and I bet you do, too! Especially when it’s artsy stuff and what other kind would we be giving away on Artsy Forager? This month’s Facebook Featured Artist, Geoff Mitchell, has recently published Moon Rabbits: Pictures and Tales a book project which pairs twenty of Mitchell’s works with short stories inspired by his imagery.
Geoff has been generous enough to offer Artsy Forager readers a chance to win a copy of Moon Rabbits! To enter, simply comment on this post with your favorite Geoff Mitchell work ( find more of his work on his website here ) and you can get an extra entry by writing your own narrative in your comment below about the story you see unfolding in Geoff’s work.
Good luck! The contest will end this Friday, June 15, 2012 at 5pm PST. A winner will be drawn at random and announced on Monday, June 18th!
I’ve been having so much fun with the Art to Inspiration project! The first month I participated, the inspiration work was by Pakayla Biehn, an artist whose work I’d already fallen in love with when I featured her on Artsy Forager a while back. The next month gave me an opportunity to fall head over heads for Jo Howe’s organically inspired work. So I was thrilled when my suggested artist, Jill Ricci was chosen as the inspiration for June!
Jill is one of those artists whose work I never tire of and I hope you don’t either, because I have a tendency to want to feature her work every chance I get! One of my favorite elements running through Jill’s work is the urban, graffiti-like graphics. So for this Art to Inspiration, I’ve put together a Ricci-inspired gallery of street art!
The inspiration-
The gallery-
Be sure to click the photos above for more of each artist’s work and to see more inspiring street art. You can also check out Artsy Forager’s Artsy On the Streets Pinterest board to keep up with all the street art I’m finding!
You can find more information on Art to Inspiration here and if you would like to participate in the next Art to Inspiration, just fill out this form! Follow me and all the other Art to Inspiration bloggers on Twitter by subscribing here. Let the inspiring begin!
Wow. Has another month really gone by already? It’s Art to Inspiration time again! This month’s inspiration, Echoes of Fragrant Voices by Jo Howe inspires me on so many levels. Her sculptures, created from book pages ( love level one- check! ) are full of beautiful shapes ( two- check! ), soft color ( three- check! ), rhythm ( four- check! ) and gorgeous texture ( that makes five- check! ). Just as with Pakayla Biehn’s work last month, Jo’s work inspired me to create a gallery of varied complementary works, each of which shares characteristics reminiscent of Jo’s work.
The inspiration:
The gallery:
Erik Gonzales | Virginia Petty | Joe Segal | Brenda Mallory | Karen Margolis | Haley Farthing | Jay Heryet
Visit the artists’ websites, linked above, for more inspiration!
This blogging world is chock full of creative and inspiring people. I am so excited to participate in the collaborative blogging project, Art to Inspiration! Art to Inspiration is a monthly collaborative blogging project in which bloggers around the world post how the same piece of artwork has inspired them on the first Wednesday of every month. So let’s get started!
I was pumped when I saw the artwork inspiration for April, 2 Years, 264 Days and This Morning by Pakayla Biehn, an artist whose work I love and recently featured!
In my gallery days, one of my absolute favorite tasks was to help curate, design and plan how the work was hung in the gallery. Laying work out, figuring out how pieces relate and the best way for them to work together visually. So for my first Art to Inspiration, it felt natural to curate my own gallery of work inspired by Biehn’s piece.
Markus Linnenbrink | Kristina Bailey | Lauren Clay | Wil Jansen | Lissy Laricchia | Michelle Armas
Visit the artists’ websites, linked above, for more inspiration!