Everyday is a Holiday for Jenny Heid from the NJ Shore, I guess that is what drew her to my cupcakes.  I was very pleased to work for Jenny because she is a great advocate of living life beautifully in general; surrounding herself in all the things she loves and that proves her love for life and art. Jenny has been very supportive of my cupcakes too so I wanted to let you know about her art. Very colorful, very beautiful and absolutly sweet.  Check out her work on etsy! Jenny is just as sweet as her work portrays. ~ Thanks Jenny!

I love the extreme conditions in Corey Arnold’s work environment & how it affects his artwork. What a great idea to put such a talent aboard a crab fishing boat. Corey’s photography amplifies the brute strength of nature with a beautiful color palette and painterly composition. I like his sense of humor and the perfect poses of bold colors that would make really fantastic paintings. He wrote this great article on fecal face, “How to be an Alaskan Fisherman” that introduced me to his work & listen to an NPR “Fishtales” here.  I found a painter who has done some paintings after Corey’s photography, Laura Heather Carol, she was as much inspired by Corey’s compositions as I am.

Corey Arnold

Laura Heather Carol

Alex Gross is currently showing in his first NY exhibition solo show, “Mysteries and Manners” at the Johnathan Levine Gallery. Alex has a beautifully refined creative ability and it is good to see him in NYC showing it off. The show opened just two days ago and is already almost sold out - lovely - can’t wait to be him. Juxtapoz interviewed him about the show and for someone who has such a master’s style he seems such a regular person.

I came across two inspiring artists this week and when I was perusing their works I immediately decided to commit to going to the Apache this week to draw & to get some of my figures down in paint asap. These two different…

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I am in love with and inspired by innovative craft thinking with fine art touches! This new trend of craft meets art has become a really exciting emerging art market for me. Check out Melanie Moore’s mixed media work comprised of sewing, painting and silkscreen accentuated by vintage materials that she uses in the fabric and framing. Really pretty stuff. Melanie doesn’t seem to have her own website but is selling these pieces on Think Space Gallery (you can view her work on the bottom of page 2 and top of page 3.)

He’s sooo dreamy…Mark Ryden is one of my favorite artists.

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