Showing posts with label lilly piri. Show all posts
Showing posts with label lilly piri. Show all posts

Thursday, September 17, 2009

magic colored pencils

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 i've previously posted about both lilly piri & fumi mini nakamara, so i'm thrilled that they currently have a joint show up at thinkspace right now. i love love love work done in colored pencil. it has a soft, dreamy effect that i melt over. the subtle details and near flawless execution of the medium by these two makes me wish i lived in california just so i could go and stare at these drawings everyday. i'm especially in awe of the above pieces, the shape shifter series by fumi and this lovely rendition by lili of helen of troy being hatched from her egg. she was one of the twins conceived by leda via zeus as a swan. 

Thursday, April 30, 2009

lilly piri has been a serious inspiration to me these past 5 years or so since i stumbled on her blog in college. her work is fragile and alluring, strange and poetic. the pieces are composed on a heavy toothed paper with colored pencils. i love it when an artist uses an unexpected medium, especially one that is linked to childhood and is so lovely and ghostly.
i really hope to buy more of her work in the future.
xoxo