Tattoo Inspired Drawings on Wooden Slices and Hands

Kirsten Roodbergen is an illustrator and a tattoo artist from Amersfoort, Netherlands. She has been making tattoos for six years but now her original designs also decorate the wooden slices and hands.

Her tattoo inspired designs often have skulls, owls, birds, wolves, bats, cats, red hearts and roses. The artists begins with preparing a sketch with pencil, then fills it in with details using acrylics marker and copic markers.

She has an online store - Inkspired where her pieces are available for purchase. You can view more of her work on Instagram.

Incredible Cakes That Are Too Good To Eat by Tortik Annuchka

Tortik Annuchka is a Moscow based bakery that creates cakes with beautiful designs. The bakery was founded in 2009, a team of bakers and designers work in a sync to produce cakes that are tasty as well as a visual treat. The cakes are decorated with jaw dropping designs that resemble detailed watercolor paintings, intricate ink drawings and paper quilling. The bakery has an Instagram profile that's updated with new cakes regularly, you can follow them if you like. 

Stunning Artwork by Scott Kelley

Snowy Owl, Egg tempera on panel

 The Ghost of Captain Walker Sequin, Monhegan, 2014, Watercolor and gouache on paper

Gluskap and the Deer, 2014. Watercolor and gouache on paper

Wing of a Snowy Owl, 2014. Watercolor on paper

 Common Eider, Watercolor on paper

Mategwes - The Rabbit Magician, 2014. Watercolor, gouache and ink on paper

The Sacred White Moose of the Mi'Kmaq, 2014. Watercolor and gouache on paper

Moose, 2014. Watercolor and gouache on paper

New York based artist Scott Kelley earned BFA degree from The Cooper Union School of Art, New York; also studied at The Slade School of Art, London; and was a fellow at The Glassel School of Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. He was only eighteen when he had his first solo exhibition with The American Realist Gallery in New York.

He works in watercolors, ink and gouache on paper painting beautiful owls, deer, rabbit, moose and other creatures with incredible detail. His animals have unique and distinctive personalities. His work has a smooth feeling achieved through multiple layers of careful application of paint.

His work is in numerous public and private collections, and he was awarded a fellowship to the Edward Albee Foundation in 1993. Please join him on Facebook where he shares his mesmerizing work and news on his upcoming exhibitions.

DIY Scrap Wood Owl Bookends

I like tutorials that teach to make something completely functional from recycled materials. Like this tutorial by Jaime from That’s My Letter who shares how to make scrap wood owl bookends. You can find the step by step instructions with the list of materials to get you started from here. These adorable owl bookends will be great to keep your book organized or to give them as a gift to someone who loves to read.

Animal Embroidered Pouches by Thomas Paul

I am loving these animal embroidered pouches by Thomas Paul. Each pouch features a full embroidered animal in the front and text on the back. You can choose from "hoot", "leap", "rattle" and "buzz". More quirky products can be viewed here.