oh please don't go - we'll eat you up - we love you so

Author/Illustrator Maurice Sendak passed away this week. He wrote my all-time favourite children's book - Where the Wild Things Are (1963). The story is only 338 words long, but along with the ferociously fabulous drawings and Max's terrible eye-rolling, teeth-gnashing adventure, the book captures the wild world of childhood so well!

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Now...here are some fierce artistic renditions inspired by the Wild Things!

LET THE WILD RUMPUS START!!!

illustrated by Ana Galvan

illustrated by Craig Watkins

*this last image was found reblogged a billion times on Tumblr. 
if anyone knows the original artist, please let me know so I can credit him/her properly!


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If you want to see more, visit Terrible Yellow Eyes - a website entirely dedicated to artwork inspired by the Wild Things. Click here for the link!

Here's to childhood. I hope we never lose the wild thing in all of us.

inspiration: maya hayuk

I discovered Maya Hayuk's art yesterday while I was actually on a WEDDING BLOG of all places. One of Hayuk's pieces was featured on an inspiration board, on Green Wedding Shoes (which is a pretty good wedding inspiration site if you're interested in that sorta stuff), and I was immediately drawn to her painting. I love the unconvential use of colours in the artwork:

shades of grey + fuschias + peach + lavender + teal.

*side note: in case you were wondering, the ring (Morganite & Rose Gold) is sold by onegarnetgirl and can be found here on Etsy.

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I love Maya Hayuk's work because of her colourful, geometrical designs. Recently I've been fascinated with this type of rainbow-hued art and cannot wait to have spotless white walls of my own to absolutely MURDER with colour.

Here are some of her fabulous murals! ("monster island walls")

She has a TONNE of stuff on her website including album covers, photography, paintings, and murals. Make sure to take a look!

artist spotlight: erin jang + food sketches

I recently stumbled upon a blog called FOOD SKETCHES, and being a food lover, I was instantly intrigued. Erin Jang, of The Indigo Bunting, is a New York graphic designer who started this site as a personal project to document some of the food she eats. Side note: (she also used to be the senior art director at Martha Stewart Living... how cool is that!?!)...

Anyway, with her permission, I'm going to share with you two of my favourite food images from her site! The first is "Parm Birthday Cake" which I particularly love because of the colourful sprinkles. Just looking at this deliciously delectable drawing makes me want to eat cake.

This second image is "Gumballs" which is such a fun, rainbow-coloured print.

To check out more tasty food pics, head over to FOOD SKETCHES here. Just looking at all her images prompted me to create my own "food sketch" with a tribute to one of my favourite foods -

the hamburger.

So here's my version, inspired by Erin's colourful images!

 

 

Actually, I've thought of creating a flat 2D burger print like this before as an acrylic painting (and probably will do a large-scale version of it on a giant canvas one day). It would probably make me very very hungry if I saw this print hanging in my living room every day. haha.

 I'd probably try to nibble at the canvas.