Tony Fitzpatrick: A Collage Artist

 

Tony Fitzpatrick is one of the well-known artists of Chicago. He was a tattoo artist before he turned to large scale mixed media drawings, paintings and multi-colored collages. His work shows influence of everyday street life in Chicago, childhood encounters with Catholic icons, superheroes, owls and other animals. His collages generally have a primary image placed in the center that is surrounded by other images telling a story about it. It's like there are multiple stories all happening at once.

His collages are a beautiful mixture of handmade drawings, found images and ephemera like baseball cards and matchbooks, cigar bands, advertising and narrative text. His work is included in many public institutions as well as at the Museum of Modern Art and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. 

If you like, you can join him on facebook where he posts his new work and about his upcoming shows.

Beautiful Trays by Orla Kiely

1. Orla Kiely Owl Tray featuring owl print in hues of green and blue.

2. Orla Kiely Flower Spot Shadow Tray in black and white.

3. Orla Kiely Elephant Tray featuring elephant print hues of blue and red.

4. Orla Kiely Flower Spot Round Tray in denim blue and dandelion yellow.

5. Orla Kiely Flower Spot Round Tray  in ochre and duck egg blue.

6. Orla Kiely Flower Spot Shadow Tray spot shadow motif in black, ochre and duck egg blue.

New tray collection by Orla Kiely can be found at Unique and Unity. They ship internationally, you can find rates to your country on their website. 

Printable Blog Planner

Good morning friends, today's freebie is a great tool for all us bloggers. Whether you are a new blogger or a seasoned pro, we all need to keep ourselves on track and this printable can help you stay organized. The printable features owls, birds, flowers and other animals, and designed in a clean format style.

Martina of "Webby Wonder" has designed a blog planner in two different sections: the first one – "Setting up my blog" will help you plan for your blog with blog style, platform, themes, blog names, domain, widgets & plugins etc.; the second part – "Blogging the way I love" will keep you organized with the daily activities on your blog such as posts ideas, weekly posts calendar, things to do, inspiring blogs etc. It's a wonderful printable that you can print for yourself and a blogger friend. You'll have less stress and able to you run your blog smoother when you know what you need to do and when.

New Plates by Nathalie L'été

New melamine plates by a French illustrator Nathalie L'été designed in collaboration with Petit Jour Paris. The plates is from a tableware collection which also offers mugs, bowls and trays featuring animal illustrations in gorgeous color palette and retro feel. The plates can be found here and here.

Sasha Montiljo: Painted Objects

Sasha Montiljo was born in Belgrade currently lives and works in Zemun. He is a renowned artist known for his surreal paintings, you can find his lovely owl painting that I absolutely love here. While browsing his website I came across a section on 'Painted Objects' which showcases a collection of owls painted by the artist on irregular shaped wooden logs. From his profile on Deviant Art : " I made about two hundred owls in form of log in the past 3 years." It would be amazing to see them all. Each one has its own unique personality. 

You can read this wonderful interview he gave to Kultur Kokoska. Owls are the recurring theme of his work and he shares their significance in his work. "I have always been fascinated by nature’s predators. The intelligence they possess causes me to think of them as creatures very similar to humans. And isn’t man part-beast himself? It may be that only if we were to look at ourselves realistically that we could change and become better. Owls are the only species of birds whose eyes are set directly in the plane of its face, like human eyes are, and since my visual poetics seldom feature humans, it may be that the owls are there to take their place. "

He is a member of the Association of Applied Arts Artists and Designers of Serbia (ULUPUDS) and has participated in several solo exhibitions. You can find more of his work he did in the the past here.