Art Inspiration - Charmaine Olivia

I have been utterly inspired by this artist for a while now, I follow her on Instagram so get a daily taster of her work and life. 

I have major studio envy! It looks amazing and you can how her surroundings influences her work.

She works in various mediums but the two which I love are her ink silhouettes, these are so delicate, and her large scale oil painting. 

I design mostly on the computer and never really feel like I get the time to sketch. I was always crap at sketch books anyway, I'm a real perfectionist so any mistake always made me rip the page out and start again!

Have a look at her work online at www.charmaineolivia.com

Beautiful Prints - Kari Herer

OK so this my intention of writing a design blog every day has fallen by the wayside slightly... well, almost completely! I am going to try my damnedest to change that and I have been totally inspired today to write about the beautiful work of Kari Herer.

I came across her work on one of my favourite design blogs Design*Sponge. Kari is a professional fine art and portrait photographer in the US. 

Here are some of her beautiful prints which are available on Etsy... friends and family take note... Christmas is coming!  

I love the combination of hand drawn animals and flowers.

I am also slightly obsessed with Antlers and the combination of wood, antlers and flowers make these photographs truly beautiful.

Check out her work online at www.kariherer.com or on Etsy: http://www.etsy.com/shop/kariherer