Weekly Inspiration: Leonie Bos

Leonie Bos is a fine artist/illustrator from the Netherlands who mainly works digitally but given her fine art background is heavily inspired by printmaking. 
What caught my eye about Leonie's work was the delicate look of the piece, with rough, textured elements printed in light feminine colours. The colour palettes in her pieces are very limited, she often only uses 3 or 4 colours but layers them in semi transparent layers in order to create new shades.

What I also love about Leonie's work is her focus on architectural shapes - which she attributes to her father being an architect. I love how she has been able to combine hard, sharp edges of buildings and structures with the playful feminine colours and delicate appearance of the print to give a different juxtaposition.

Weekly Inspiration: Bases Loaded

Bases Loaded is a project that explores Baseball visually through a series of screenprints, the prints celebrate American Culture and explore how Baseball contributes to this. 
The concept behind the prints is strong and the stories told are sometimes light hearted and sometimes deep. 

The prints themselves normally feature one simple primary illustration as the image with type to accompany it.

Some prints honour some of Baseball's best players like these 2 above, and some commemorate major events in Baseball like these 2 below. 

What I love about this series is the clear passion for Baseball the artists have that drives these prints. Also the colour scheme shouts patriotism - with the red toned down to orange, the white to cream and the blue to a dark navy so as not to be too generic.

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Our chosen inspiration from the inspiration lists completed last PP session was the song Knocked Up by the Kings of Leon.

I personally love the band and hadn't heard this particular song so I was excited I got to discover a new song by an artist I love to listen to. We researched into the song and the band and found out some surprising background information.

The band members are all related, 3 brothers and a cousin all under the name of Followill. They were raised in Oklahoma and Tennessee by their father who was a Pentecostal church Minister. They travelled round in a car - often living out of it in their early lives. The bands sound is heavily influenced by U2  - in particular their guitar style is similar to the Edge (the guitarist in U2).

Knocked Up is a song about a couple who is pregnant - the couple seem to be young and living life like renegades - similar to Bonnie and Clyde. The song lyrics about women, cars and living fast and loose seem to rebel against the boys religious teachings from their youth.

Weekly Inspiration: MUTI

Muti is a creative studio based in South Africa that creates stunning work.
My favourite section on their website is their Graphic portfolio, the pieces they have created for brands and book covers etc are so intricate.