A Little Thursday Inspiration | Ash The Painter

It’s time again for our weekly installment of Thursday Inspiration!

This week I am thrilled to share with you guys an amazing painter that I discovered not quite a full year ago… but one that I’ve been in love with ever since: Ash the Painter!

Ashley aka Ash the Painter is based in Yakima, Washington and specializes in minimalistic, abstract, and ethnic art.

From her bio:
“My goal is to create my version of beauty: sometimes nappy, sometimes classy, sometimes stylish and all in between… One painting at a time, I hope to offer encouragement, inspiration, and of course a stylish masterpiece one can enjoy forever.”

That is precisely why I love her work. It is clean, colorful, and creative! I could look at some of her pieces all day- and do! Lol I ordered a few of her art prints and you should too! (no really, she’s actually having a really awesome sale currently :)

You can tell that each painting is made with love and that she really enjoys what she does, and that makes you enjoy her work all the more so :)

Here are a few of my faves!

Love this one! It was based off of a photo of Taren Guy. Super awesome!

*swoon*

I hope you enjoyed being introduced to Ash the Painter!

Want to find out more her work? Her website: http://www.ashthepainter.com/ and @ashthepainter on instagram, facebook, and twitter. Tell her DFinney Photography sent you! :)

Until next time!

-Danni

A Little Thursday Inspiration | Dave Brubeck

Good Thursday morning to you!

Today’s post is a little different but I figured I better start including some music-related posts because I’m just as passionate about music as I am about photography and art :)

Today is all about DAVE…

Dave Brubeck is a Jazz Legend known for his unique compositions and unusual time signatures that always seem to bring a colorful feel to his work!  Unfortunately he passed just last year in December of 2012, but his decades long career left wonderful music that continues to live on.

Recently Google’s doodle for Saul Bass made use of “Unsquare Dance” by Dave Brubeck and that was all I needed to reignite my love affair with Dave :)

I grew up listening to jazz (my dad’s a bass player) so seeing all the work that goes into this makes it all that much more impressive! I’m no musician, so I know they probably appreciate all the subtle nuances that much more. I just like listening :)

Here is one of Brubeck’s more well-known songs

And here’s one of my faves

Love this cover art!

Dave Brubeck was a marvelously talented musician privileged to do what he loved right until the end. Want some more tunes while you work this morning? Look up some more of his videos on YouTube and make a Dave Brubeck Pandora station! Awesomeness awaits :)

I hope you enjoyed today’s post. Stay tuned for next week’s inspiration Thursday!

-Danni

A Little Thursday Inspiration | Alexa Meade

Happy Thursday all!

Today’s post features the work of an absolutely amazing artist by the name of Alexa Meade, an artist based out of Los Angeles, California.

She makes REAL LIFE paintings! Lol. I seriously stared at the photos of Alexa’s work for quite some time because I’d never seen anything like it. She is able to make 3D objects and people look 2D with incredible ease. In fact, if you didn’t see the pull back shots of the photos below, you would never know they were real people.

Anyway enough of my talking, just LOOK at this awesomeness!

Check out more of her work on her website, facebook, and twitter.

I hope you found her work as interesting and inspiring as I did :)

‘Til next time!

-Danni

A Little Thursday Inspiration | Studio of Modé

Has it really been almost a YEAR since my last inspiration post?! Let’s resurrect this feature and make this a weekly thing, shall we?

Today’s post features the work of Modé, an artist from Lagos, Nigeria. I’ve been following her work for a couple years now and I absolutely love her style! Specifically her watercolor paintings and illustrations… the way she works with color is absolutely beautiful!

Here are a few of my favorites from Modé

Love love love!

Check out these beautiful illustrations of fashion bloggers Karla of Karla’s Closet and Wendy of Wendy’s Lookbook!

Aaaand of course this one would be my all time favorite :)

Check out more of her work here on her website and also stop by her shop as she also has paintings, prints, cell phone cases, and laptop skins available for purchase!

Well that’s it for today’s installment of Inspiration Thursday! Check back next Thursday as I feature another one of my favorite artists!

Have a great day guys!

-Danni

A Little Thursday Inspiration | Tang Yau Hoong

Happy Thursday everyone!

I’ve been a busy bee this week taking care of various projects and preparing for the full month of August ahead of me, but I wanted to drop in and share a bit of inspiration. I realize I don’t share enough things that inspire me, so I’m going to aim to do a bit more of that :)

Today’s post features the work of Tang Yau Hoong, a visual artist/ illustrator/graphic designer from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. I discovered him through this post on inspirationfeed.com and I fell in love! I’d actually seen his work before without even realizing it… his work with negative space makes for awesome t-shirt designs :)

Here are a few of my favorites from Tang Yau Hoong!

Beware of Those Hands

Journey to the City of No Horizon

 

Dawn

Light Painter

So Long, Old World

That last one reminds me of an awesome nail art tutorial I just saw a couple days ago on Polish You Pretty!

I’ve kinda given up doing my own nails these days out of laziness lol, but I know of a couple awesome nail techs who would do an awesome job bringing this to life.

Well that’s it for today’s installment of Inspiration Thursday! I may make this a regular thing, or it may fall by the wayside lol… we’ll see how it goes :)

Have a great day guys!

-Danni