Sneak Peek

A sneak peek into what's coming next:

I also sketched this while watching Adventure Time the other day. Thought it would be fun to share!

SPRING - New clipart set

Spring is here and with it comes a new Purple Frog clipart set!

I sure am inspired by all the flowers and awakening trees around here! There is freshness all around!

As always, the set is also available as black outline digital stamps + photoshop brushes here.

Purple Frog Recommends - A Redtail's Dream

It always amazes me to find such beautiful, original and well written online graphic novels, many of which can be read completely free of charge.
One such marvelous webcomic is A Redtail's Dream, written and illustrated by Finnish/Swedish artist Minna Sundberg.

 
The story takes place in a dream world, and is infused with surrealism and Finnish mythology. We follow characters Hannu Viitanen and his faithful dog Ville in a captivating journey to escape the realm of dreams, while rescuing their fellow villagers from the machinations of a mischievous fox. 

Minna is having a crowd-funding campaign to have the comic published in printed format. It is already (not surprisingly) fully funded and has reached many of the stretch goals, but you still have about a week to grab a copy of the book, along with many other related goodies. This will probably be the only print run for the story, but the comic will stay available online. It is a great chance to support the artist and show appreciation for all the effort put into it (and, of course, then you will have the beautiful book if you choose to buy it). Head on over to the campaign page to see all the details.

Thank you Minna for sharing your art with the world so generously, and best of luck with your campaign!

Artist Spotlight - Lois van Baarle

There are so many amazing talented people I stalk on the interwebs, I decided to create an "Artist Spotlight" feature on the blog, so that you may also be impressed!

For the first of my artist spotlights, meet Lois Van Baarle, also known as Loish!

Lots of texture and vibrance, curvy girls with bubblegum-colored hair, and stylish clothes I wish I had in my wardrobe - are all part of her very unique and beautiful style!

 

Her pieces are very feminine and full of life! A lot of her characters look a little bit like herself, don't you think?

Many types of floating sea-life are also a recurring theme! (I think they are super-fun!)

So go check out her website, from there you can find her art for sale, and all her social media links.

I take my leave with these pics of her art process.

 

     

Lois, you are an inspiration!

Framed Oil Pastel Drawings

Remember all the artsy-crafty stuff i bought from Daiso? Well it was about time I put some of it to good use!

So I took those oil pastels (which i now think are just simple crayons... but it doesn't matter they are fun anyways!) and made this! It's really good to work on a "real life" traditional media piece for a change. It has that calming effect that the computer can't provide. It has been so long since I did something like this. Not being able to fix the mistakes easily (no ctrl+z on the paper...!) is also an exercise in letting go.
I had that little sketchbook just lying around, and it is the perfect size for the picture frames (also from Daiso).

Not perfect, but nice enough! It's interesting how mostly anything looks better in a frame, isn't it? Now I have to make another one for the other frame to have a set. I'm thinking a bunch of little blue flowers or something. We'll see.

 The back of the picture frames had this interesting joining piece. Is it silly that I thought this was interesting enough to take a picture and post it here? Having no glue there is more eco friendly!

String wall art

I came across this awesome string wall art in Wise Craft today. So simple and brilliant!

Esbarrei nesta instalação artística para paredes hoje no blog Wise Craft. Amei, tão simples e genial! 

 

I had never seen something like this before. I wonder how complicated it would be to create original designs. Pretty time consuming i suppose, but very inexpensive and unique art for a wall. Probably won't try this on a rented apartment tough... so many holes on the wall. On the other hand I'm so smitten i would even consider going through the trouble of filling them all back and repainting the wall when its time to move out.
Here are some other similar examples i found:

Nunca tinha visto algo parecido antes. Me pergunto o quanto complexo seria criar desenhos originais.

Provavelmente demorado, mas uma peça de arte super barata e exclusiva. Provavelmente não vou tentar em um apartamento alugado... tantos furos na parede. Por outro lado, gostei tanto da idéia que talvez valesse a pena encher os buracos e repintar a parede antes de devolver o ap.

Alguns outros exemplos que encontrei:

Found on re-nest

Found on green wedding shoes

The first picture comes with a tutorial -check it out here- and the second one is from a beautiful Anthropology inspired wedding, go check out the other pictures, they are great!

A primeira foto vem com um tutorial -veja aqui- e a segunda é de um casamento lindo inspirado na Anthropology. Vai lá ver as outras fotos, muito bacana!