What is it with me and bizarre storybook imagery? Seriously, I cannot seem to get enough. These lithographs, with chine-collé, are by the multi-talented Peregrine Honig. What I love about them are the soft, delicate backgrounds combined with the bold, somewhat disturbing characters. A bear that is clearly up to no good. Kids with antlers hanging around in their underpants. Little Red Riding Hood wielding an axe and a pretty decent bikini tan… is it morally wrong that I love these?

If you live in Denver, or anywhere even kinda close to Denver, you have to go to Amanda Marie‘s new show that opens tonight {November 20th} at the Andenken Gallery. I’ve posted 4 pieces, just to give you a little taste, but there are 40 paintings in the show so it should be quite something to see.  Her work totally reminds me of vintage storybooks… with an edge. Nothin’ like a bit of spray paint, a few scribbles and a one-eyed fox to add some much needed grit to a run-of-the-mill fairytale.

Sweet Jiminy. {I kid you not, those are truly the two words that popped into my head when I found this work.}

I’ve created a little time line of amazing-ness out of Mark Weaver‘s illustrations for you. I’ve started in The Beginning and worked my way through to 1978. I’m not sure what happens after that, but I’m not too worried about it… probably just a whole bunch of other very cool stuff.

My ♥ skipped a little beat when I saw these collages by James Gallagher. I truly respect anyone who can do something so simple yet so interesting… believe me, it ain’t as easy as it looks people.

{I found this artist on BOOOOOOOM!}

Where should I start… The stunning color? The crazy fabulous art direction? The super-cool vintage feel? Hmm… or maybe I should kick things off with the fact the 10% of the sales price of these fine art prints goes to ‘a health program designed to promote early detection, diagnosis and treatment of breast and cervical cancer, with special emphasis on the under-served, to prevent and reduce the devastating effects of cancer.’  Oh Star Foreman, so many reasons to be jealous of you.

{Visit her portfolio site, or go directly to her etsy shop and pick up a technicolor print right this very minute.}