very much in love: amanda blake

very much in love... with the work of amanda blake.

her rich, layered oil paintings of seemingly very stolid characters are replete with moody color palettes & captivating narrative titles. each painting's quietly heady feeling leaves me wanting to cover a room's walls with her work & hole up with a good book.

you can find her beautiful work here.

very much in love: hollie chastain

very much in love... with the work of collage artist holly chastain.

old bits of paper with faded text peppered with vibrant cut out dots and linear ink drawings juxtaposed with old sepia photos?! be still my heart. and her color palette? don't even get me started.

you can grab (extremely affordable) prints of these beauties from her etsy shop. i'm still waiting to find out how i can get my hands on this one or this one (but sadly i think i'm out of luck). and i'd gladly take each & every single one of these too, thanks (of course her flickr is filled with so much eye candy that i can hardly stand it).

how to pick one?? decisions, decisions, as my mom would say. but i need at least one piece of her work, i know that much for sure.