Paint-by-Number Murals

Prêt-à-porter Paint-by-Number mural: wallpaper by WallPaintbyNumber.
Making It Lovely piqued my interest in PBN's as murals with her round up:
I love how Curtis Robinson's PBN mural wraps the corner but would have forgone the red barn wall treatment.
Beautiful inspiration at Camp Wandawega.
Cabin Collective does these too.

Elly MacKay

Steam and Sails by Elly MacKay.

Based on her process shots and descriptions, she appears to be photographing a type of collage, or more accurately, a set, carefully lit within a toy theater. They feel very evocative to me and dreamy without being too sweet. Steam and Sails (shown in this post) is on its way for display Big Boy's room. I was interested to learn that she studied in Nova Scotia too.

EllyMackay.com
Theater Clouds is her Etsy Shop.
And she shares her approach along with some dreamy process shots here.

Art: David Barth

David Barth - pages filled with detailed animals, bugs, birds, and snakes!

Claire-Anne O'Brien

At the complete opposite end of the scale from Petit Tricotage, we have Claire-Anne O'Brien's jumbo knits:

Knit Stools
British Wool Chair

From her website:

"... Her work plays with technique and scale creating playful and tactile fabrics for interiors. This sculptural approach to textiles brings fabrics to life in three dimensions through form exploration and furniture."

Art: Nina Lindgren

Nina Lindgren's Cardboard Heaven

Decor: JuJu Hats

Gorgeous feather hats from Cameroon - seen at Design Sponge

DIY faux hats at Flutter Flutter
Get the real deal at Authentic Africa

Collage: Beth Hoeckel

Mountain Rangers by Beth Hoeckel
Unsettling but beautiful ... does that qualify as subime?

Beth Hoeckel - see her entire portfolio
(Seen at Anthology.)

Yarn Bombing: projet nid de poule

Juliana Santacruz Herrera's "interventions en the street of paris."
Her Flickr photoset here.

Mobiles

I love mobiles ... more than wall-hung art, I think.

Lisa Occhipinti (courtesy of Making It Lovely) - Dreamy, books with their pages all unfurled ... as soon as I have a ceiling from which I can hang this!
Julie Frith - abstract shapes, bold colours (we have one; I love it)

Art: Crafterall

Image by Marnie B. Karger
Marnie B. Karger is Crafterall and makes the most mesmerizing papercut, topographical maps. I had admired her work on Etsy for a long time, even "favouriting" her shop ages ago. So I don't now how I overlooked the gorgeous papercut maps to be found in her shop.

Fortunately, my coworker bought one of San Francisco Bay and shared it with us at the office. It is stunning: the detail, the handcrafting of it, and the colours! And who doesn't enjoy cartography on some level?

I am buying this for Big Boy's room. He was born in San Francisco. I think it has heirloom potential.

UPDATE: It's actually "bathymetry," not topography or cartography, apparently. What a great word: Bathymetry! Bathymetry!
Adding it to the list ...

Miniatures: Ji Lee

Ji Lee's Parallel Worlds - I want to try a version of this!

Ceramics: Alice Mara

I love her Hanging People ceramics.
More about her work at If It's Hip, It's Here.

Photography: Tara Gorman

Image by Tara Gorman
Miniatures + humour + mad photography skills.
I have always loved Tara Gorman's (a.k.a., Diastema) images.
You can buy some of them at Imagekind. I wish you could buy more!

Some Candidate Images:
o - orange octopus, green olives on blue ... and a favourite
Untitled - green seahorse candy on green
Untitled - lobsters and shells
Untitled - colourful tentacles
Adaptation - octopus, man, on blue
Untitled - red fish on a hook, on blue and green
Untitled - tentacles and EIGHT

28.i.11 UPDATE: Tara Gorman responded to my inquiry about her work; she plans to update her offerings on Imagekind. How exciting!

Amnesia: Art

I have a terrible memory or maybe it is a mental block for useful information. In any case, here is the artsy stuff I need to remember:

Andy Goldsworthy
Joseph Cornell - creepy 3D collages
Patrick Dougherty - whimsical and creepy twig architecture
Hassan Fathy

Keep Calm

The backstory.
Stamp it everywhere with help from Rubber Soul.
Personal favourite from JennieGee

Stockmar

Image by Stockmar
Buy them here.
Inspiration.

Miniatures: Gidon Bing

Images by Gidon Bing

Does Gidon Bing consider these dollhouses or sculpture? The colours and material palette are lovely. These make me question a highly detailed aesthetic for a dollhouse. These are very simple but so lovely and clean.
They were done in partnership with Resene. They have a PDF you can download.
You can find out more about Gidon Bing here.

Diem Chau

Carved Crayons
Embroidery (over ceramics)
Teeny, tiny Mah Jong

Encapsulated

Images by Sarah Hood
Landscape and Spice Jewelry by Sarah Hood


Images by Anika Smulovitz.
“Herbarium Specimen” by Anika Smulovitz.

Barbie in Design

Margaux Lange Jewelry
Jonathan Adler'sMalibu Barbie Dream House