Art & Craft | AMY UHRICH

Tarot of Masks

We all know I love fashion, photography, tarot, and paper craft. So when they all come together so seamlessly, my heart pitter-patters.

This tarot deck by husband-and-wife duo Phillip Valdez and Elisa Lazo de Valdez is as yet unfinished, but I’ve got an eye on some prints for my birthday.

For more paper sculpture and [...]

Audrey Kawasaki: A Mere Moment

Audrey Kawasaki is a 28-year-old Japanese-American painter based in Los Angeles. Though her professional training amounts to little more than a two-year stint at the Pratt Institute in New York City, her art creates a lasting impression.

With her primary materials of oil and wood, Kawasaki renders alluring, nymph-like girls at the peak of their sexual [...]

Gimme Origami

Paper shoes & cuff. Holy crap I’m in heaven. I’d hang these from my ceiling.

By Ndeur & Make a Paper World for stylist Heidi Ackerman (via Atelier 29)

And bam – the bag is the object. Proceeds go to WWF to save the endangered animal. Genius.

This is Origami [...]

Sundry Sunday - Disposable Fashion?

I’ve been thinking a lot about value lately–partially in terms of cost-per-use (which is a lesson everyone should learn), and partially in terms of wastefulness. When it comes to fashion, the two can go hand in hand. Case in point: paper clothing. (Click any image for more info & photos.)

Let’s get one thing straight: I’m [...]

Feature Friday: Yellena James, Artist

Yellena James is an abstract painter and illustrator who was born in Sarajevo in 1977, and currently resides in Portland, Oregon. James’s work features colorful shapes and lines which–via interplay of spatial arrangement and dimension–create dynamic, surreal scenes riddled with intense hue and detail (very much worth viewing larger).

“I try to create an intimate [...]

Sundry Sunday - Paper Pretty

So this is a bit outdated, but no matter how hard I try I still can’t stop thinking about the paper headdresses at the Chanel Couture Spring ’09 show, crafted so expertly (from 11 x 17″ office paper) by Japanese hairdresser Katsuya Kamo. I couldn’t not blog about it. Talk about art:

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Feature Friday - Kelly Thompson, Artist

I forget where I first ran across Kelly Thompson, and I can’t find much about her online. All I know is that she’s a 26-year-old illustrator and photographer from Wellington, New Zealand who (according to her MySpace profile) enjoys camping, “going to the flicks,” and spending time with her overweight cat, Furgus. Oh, and she [...]