ILLUSTRATOR CRUSH: Malika Favre

Hello friends!  Happy Friday, I can't wait for this weekend.  It feels like I've been super busy this week, and it will be nice to kick back with my family in the suburbs for a couple days (hehe, and swim in their pool)!  

Can you believe that tomorrow is the first day of June?  I certainly can't!  It seems like just yesterday I was with Pedro's family in Brazil ringing in the New Year.  Time, as always, is just flying by - seriously.  It's been a crazy ride.  But a really special crazy ride.. ahha.  

Today I have a new ILLUSTRATOR CRUSH and inspiration for you.

I've fallen in love with the work of Mailka Favre.  A French illustrator based in London, her work is full of stark lines, minimal colour and lots of movement.  I love the "flatness" to her work - the illustrations have a reductive + minimalist quality to them, and it's really great.  They are simple + bright + beautiful - and I can't stop looking at them.

​"My approach to illustration is about paring things down as much as possible.  I try and get to the essence of my subject by using as few lines and colours as it needs to convey the core of the idea."

- Malika Favre

DO IT YOURSELF: Skull-Themed Wall Art

Hey friends! Just wanted to share a little DIY I did over the weekend.  

It was my friend Alana's birthday, so I decided to make her a little something.  She dressed up as a skeleton for Halloween, and if my memory served correctly - had plenty of skull regalia decorating her home.  But who doesn't need a little MORE skull decorations in their life?  So I set out to make her some sugar skull wall art.

I found an inexpensive wooden plaque (that already had a chain for hanging attached), and got to work painting/inking.  I then sealed the paint with some matte gel medium.  Super easy, super fun, and she loved it!

​Check out the results, pretty fun, right?​  This isn't my first foray into skull-themed wall art.  I have a shower curtain with sugar skulls all over it that Pedro insisted we pick up when we were in NYC.  I made a cross-stitched skeleton canvas awhile back! I'm going to see if I can dig up some photos.