devart talent

Some favourites from deviant art

Hair by =ComeWatchMyArt on deviantART

Another life please by ~vachi-bumbernickle on deviantART

blue skies and paper airplanes by ~curlytops on deviantART

To view more blog posts on my favourite deviant artists click here.

Eveline Tarunadjaja

I'm in love with this 2008 Calendar by Eveline Tarunadjaja, featuring new and unseen drawings limited to 100 handmade copies. You can get your very own copy via her website, along with prints, cards and original illustrations.

One of my favourite Eveline works is Airfish.

its about being carried away in dreaming...ahh...this I can relate to !!

Eveline's a Melbourne based artist who has been in recent exhibitions at Per Square Metre gallery (Cups and Cuddles), and in Frankie magazine.
Some links to read and see more of her work

Indie Art and Design feature
personal blog
website

enjoy xo
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edit.... Whilst browsing through old Frankies I come across the issue with Eveline as featured artist and thought Id scan the article to share with you all.
Click the images to see larger scans.

more posts on Eveline here.

give it the finger....

"Have you ever seen something really beautiful and just felt like giving the finger?..."

This makes me laugh, Ive never seen animals photographed the way Corey Arnold captures them. Just look at this Raccoon....

Doesn't it make you laugh? oh I love it !! go view the rest of his photographs online here.

Zine Fair

Zine fair Zine fair !! weeeee. I must try to make it to this, perhaps I will change my flights to return from Canberra earlier. A zine fair is much better than hanging in canberra, on election day. Yes I think so !!!


So here are the details
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Yeah Write! is a one day fair, whereby young writers and zine makers can acquire a stall to sell, swap and market their zines. This one day bonanza will be accompanied by an art exhibition, forums, music and spoken word performances.

It is happening on..

Saturday 24 November
12pm – 5pm
Hawthorn Town Hall
358 Burwood Road, Hawthorn

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Read more about it here. Also the lovely Mixtape zine will be available there too !

Smosch

I love these pocket sized calenders featuring illustration by Smosch, you can find them on her ETSY store.
Also you have to check out her blog, it has great photography!! Ah...

Wooden Toy :: CHICAs

It has been a busy week and I have so many things to tell you all about, also lots of photos to show. (I will blog about in the next day or two in more detail)

Firstly, Thursday night was the launch of Wooden Toy Chicas edition and I went along to get my own copy and see my sisters work in the exhibition.

Here is a peek inside wooden toy, exhibition photos to follow soon.

Packaged up in a pretty envelope

Inside the package...... posters, magnation booklet, and art postcards.

Five star gallery section, 5 artists, 5 questions. Left: Illustration by Miso

My favourite two pages: Art by Bec Winnel aka My Charlie Girl

Pirate stories by Miss Blimey, illustrated by Timba


Wow and there is 156 more pages for you to drool over.

You can get you own copy from Borders, Magnation, Mertopolis Bookstore, Greville St Bookstore or order online (for you non City folk).

Thanks Bec for the images x

Running from Camera

The rules are simple: I put the self-timer on 2 seconds, push the button and try to get as far from the camera as I can.

What a great idea, I want to come up with a great idea like this. Reminds me of in the latest Frankie issue where a girl took a polaroid photo every day for a whole year.

I found this runner via another beautiful blog A CUP OF JO.

You can view more of the running images here.

NEW magnation store

How excitement.....Magnation have just opened a new store at Chadstone. I visited it on Sunday and I can say that the magazine range is just as great as the city store ! No more trips into the city...I can now drop in after work to collect my art magazines.

ahh....

Wooden Toy Chica's EDITION

Wooden Toy Chica's edition is finally here!! And I'm ever so proud to say its featuring my sister Bec. So come along to the launch party this Thursday night.

Details are :
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THURSDAY 15 NOVEMBER 7PM TIL LATE
MISS LIBERTINES, 34 FRANKLIN STREET, MELBOURNE

LIVE BEATS BY DJ MAFIA.
LIVE BREAKS
BURLESQUE ACTS BY SARAH LEA CHEESECAKE & MS FAT BOOTY PERFORMING LIVE!

AN EXHIBITION OF ORIGINAL ARTWORKS AND PRINTS BY MISO / BEC WINNEL / TIMBA / BEKI BLADEN / ELEANOUR VOTERAKIS / MORGANNA MAGEE & NICOLE REED

FREE ENTRY AND MORE...

ORIGINAL PROOF SPREADS, WOODEN TOY QUARTERLY EDITIONS AND THE ALL NEW WOODEN TOY VS NICE PRODUCE TEE AVAILABLE UPSTAIRS AT PAPER SHADOW GALLERY ON THE NIGHT
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hope to see you there

Flashback Friday :: Family BBQ

Mum and Dad used to love throwing BBQ's in the summer time. Here is a photo from one of them. I'm sitting on the banana lounge with Mum and Dad with my sister behind it. The others are uncles, aunties and cousins. Ah you have to love summer BBQs, its what backyards are for!!!

online art zines

I really love little art zines. In particular I'm loving this blog that has a regular zine that you can download and print off yourself.

hmm which to print off??.....first off will be Catherine's and Eveline's.

I {HEART} Japanese craft

My very first Japanese craft book arrived yesterday, so exciting :-) I now have my very own...instead of just drooling over them at stitching nights. It's so SO super cute and even better then I was expecting. Also you can see a Clover stitching pattern on top of the book....I love the birds in the tree and the birdcage too, these will be stitched onto many things around my house.....untill my boy can't handle anymore cute stitching.

I ordered my japanese goodies through Superbuzy, and I can say I'm very pleased with the service and quality of stock they have.


But if your after some Japanese material, Kwoozy has some great stuff for sale through her blog shop.

I did try taking some pictures of inside the book, but I'm not too good with this new photo editing software and they turned out funny. I'm more of a scanner person I think. So I ll scan some pages soon !! promise.

and in other news...the rescued dollhouse has found a new home with Pip, where it can be loved and cared for.

xx Liss

rescue 101

Rescued from hard rubbish....I can't believe some of the things people throw out. So much of it could have been given to an op shop or put into recycling. MAKES ME MAD.

:-(

a girl called Susan....nah

This is my friend Susannah (Sue, Suzie, Susan) and I,

This is a song I love with Susan in the lyrics


"we would have had a boy called tom and a girl called susan, born in japan"

Sue and I are going to see Bjork at the Oprah house

And if I get tickets we are going to this

and that is all......

Frankie Scans : Sonja Ahlers

I love looking back through magazines and rediscovering art you've forgotten or overlooked at the time, its so fun! Like having a whole new magazine to read. This has inspired me to do a blog feature where I will scanning beautiful pages from my old magazines to share with you all. I love looking at other peoples blogs and the magazines they have in their collection...I find the images so beautiful and inspiring. Hopefully I can inspire some people out there through sharing these pages.

I had to start with an artist I had been looking at and loving their work without even connecting that they were a Frankie featured artist in ISSUE 13 and this is Sonja Ahlers. I'll also include a Frankie desktop that is no longer up on their website.

Click to view the larger scan.

page 1


pg2 : interview

page 3

page 4

And the Frankie wallpaper (thanks Kelly for this)

You can find more wallpapers on the Frankie website here. Or keep visiting my blog as I will be putting more up that are no longer on the website.

To see more of Sonja's art visit her website or myspace.


And if anyone knows where I can get old issues of frankie (pre issue 10) let me know as I keep missing out on ebay.

enjoy...xox Liss

RELATED POSTS:

• Frankie issue13 SCANS
• ABBIE CORNISH scan

Gallery 696 The Yard opening

Saturday night I went to the opening of The Yard at Gallery 696. Here are some photos of the night...alot of people turned up, enough to fill 3 rooms and the new yard out the back. I didn't stay too long, just long enough to view all the awesome art on the walls (and some on semi-nude models) and checkout the new lane way painting and yard out the back. Here's a few photos from the night.


Painted Models













The Lane way (lady painting by Love Ariel)












Bec's Art on the gallery wall

stitching goodies

Tonight Im off to another stitching night at Meet Me at Mikes. I still haven't finished my stitching from last week but here is a shot of all the goodies I got.
Including my new but old but new vinyl sewing case given to me by the lovely Kirsty. She found it in her local opshop...that opshop is gold!

And down the right corner is a door prize, it's a button and a cute handmade notebook by Gracia & Louise
Below is what I'm working on at sitching tonight, its a Little Lambkin for the Mirabel foundation (see the button in my sidebar for more information)

ooh and my new hedgehog friend....he keeps my pins and scissors handy when stitching...thanks Pip :-)


Well off to stitching I go...hope to see you there.

A day in St Kilda

I finally connected my mobile phone to my computer and was very impressed with the quality of photos it takes. I thought Id share with you some pictures from a few weeks back when we went to St Kilda for lunch.

My sis (my charlie girl) before the hair cut

and Me (I love lemon lime and bitters + vodka)


ah a happy outing in the sun.......I love the summertime :-)

pursey loves

I can't resit a cute purse. And these little purses from Foul Fowl are fuzzy, cute and colourful.



The birdy bead on the zip just tops them off!
Find heaps more designs in their Etsy store here. Or request a custom order if you love.

Flashback Friday :: Stylish Mum

Love this photo of my Mum, she looks very stylish with her bob haircut and blue eyeshadow.

This picture was taken at my christening, I'm held by my Great Grandma Rava wearing one of her lovely crotchet blankets. My sister is also in a homemade knitted jumper. My sister was very protective of me....you can see she is looking at me cause I'm crying.

Mum's looking very stylish in a high waisted wool skirt and a silk blouse.