Tiny Gallery: Royal Art Lodge

 

The Royal Art Lodge was an art collective based in Winnipeg, Manitoba, active from 1996-2008, and founded by Michael Dumontier, Marcel Dzama, Neil Farber, Drue Langlois, Jonathan Pylypchuk, and Adrian Williams. They’ve got all sorts of genius little paintings and drawings at their website, found here.

 

 

 

 

 
They have an amusing series of photos giving a glimpse at life in [...]

Tiny gallery: Ana Benaroya

 

 
 
Ana Benaroya was an illustrator whose work was recently featured on Book by its Cover.  She has a fun, colorful pastiche style that reminds me of retro childrens book illustration, cartoons, and psychedelic 60s graphics (see: Posters).  And, I especially love her sketchbook work in ink and collage (at the end). 
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Tiny Gallery: Megan Whitmarsh

 

 
I heard about Megan Whitmarsh a few years ago and was so intrigued by her tiny stitched world of colorful characters, but it slipped my mind until today when I read a recent Moldy Doily post about her trip to Florida for a big art event.  Her work was displayed along side Megan’s and many [...]

Tiny gallery: Studio Violet

 
Studio Violet is the new joint project from illustration darlings Camilla Engman and Elisabeth Dunker.  It features sweetly naive characters in a stripped palette, floating in rich paper textures & patterns a la grade school stationary, old school wallpaper, and victorian nursery. I’m a sucker for kitties and old-timey mustashioed bankers.  Its the perfect talcum-powdered [...]

Tiny museum, tiny gallery.

(*Note: While trying to find this picture I stumbled across a strange site that lists the art pieces shown in this scene of Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, offering a virtual version of the same tour through the Art Institute of Chicago that Ferris, Sloane, and Cameron took.)
 
I like to imagine I have my own museum [...]

Welcome to the dollhouse.

I love this amazing miniature photography by Allyson Ross:
 

 
And, check out her playful Etsy jewelry shop here.
 
 
 

Kate Marshall.

 

 
I recently came across Kate Marshall’s paintings as I was perusing my blogroll. What first captured my attention was the color (sometimes 80s neon-ish in its bright pinks and soft purples) in contrast with the simply rendered, often retro-looking models. The models tend to hold poses that are erotic and domineering. [...]