Tea Rose on June 21st, 2010

Painted fabric and found objects combine to make wacky, imaginative, slightly primitive sculptures from husband-and-wife team Jo James and Dylan Curry at The Cart Before the Horse.

I love the raven with forks for legs. How awesome is that?

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Tea Rose on February 13th, 2009

Jenny Lee is an Australian bear artist, but what attracted me to her site was the adorable-enough-to-eat chick pictured on Softies Central. Here’s an artist who has made facial geometry into an extreme sport: if she placed the eyes of her stuffed critters any farther apart, or their noses any higher, they’d look [...]

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Tea Rose on September 28th, 2008

Today I have for you a couple of great Halloween-themed creepy artists.

LoopyBoopy works in the same creepy/primitive category as Michelle Steele and Scott Radke.  Her polymer clay “dead kids” use marbles for eyes and include tragic little stories about their lives.  You can find LoopyBoopy on Etsy or Flickr and there’s an interesting [...]

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Tea Rose on September 5th, 2008

Here’s what my life is like these days: I’m looking at pictures of Asian ball-jointed dolls on Flickr, and I find this artist who’s making cute little costumes for her tiny bjds. Then I look at her other gallery and start thinking “this looks familiar…” So I look up her profile, and guess what? [...]

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