“I’m drawn to color because it just makes me so happy, it never fails to lift my mood,” explained Blythman in an interview with Kids Gifts and Toys. “When I’m creating new work I decide on a color palette first. Always. At present, I can’t get away from neon pink and peach.”

Her process, which more often than not includes paper collage techniques, involves covering big sheets of watercolor paper in a variety of delicious colors and copper or gold leaf. Blythman then cuts the sheets up only to put them back together again as new artworks. “I often add my signature hand-drawn and painted detail too,” she says.

“When I was young I always loved to cut, paste and layer paper and as a teen I would spend days drawing detailed illustrations of my teen idols,” she recalled. “So I guess in some form or another I’ve always been doing exactly what I still do now,” she adds. “Drawing, cutting + pasting, creating, making things.”

Her recognizable aesthetic has garnered her a legion of fans and a super happy portfolio of work with clients ranging from start-up businesses to high profile Australian and International brands. Here are some of her more eye-popping creations:

The post Laura Blythman’s Art is an Instant Mood Lifter appeared first on PlayJunkie.

“My most vivid memories of childhood are based on light and color, not necessarily together but sometimes,” she explained in an interview with Nulty+. “These experiences would be in a car, my dad driving through Barnsley town center, which at the time was lit with incandescent and neon lights. The light was much warmer then, an enticing glow.”

“I was always very perceptive, even as a child, and I would pay attention to the reflections on the floor, particularly on the wet floor so common in the north of England,” she added. “I found it really alluring. I have a lot of memories of being driven about places and being in transit.”

West’s investigation into the relationship between color and light is often realized through an engagement between materiality and a given site. According to her, our understanding of color can only be realized through the presence of light. By playing and adjusting color, she brings out the intensity and composition of her spatial arrangements.

“I think we need to be taken out of the ordinary and put into the extraordinary,” she says. “I’m not professing here that my work is extraordinary but it is about giving people an experience that they might not have day-to-day.”

Enter her unordinary spaces of light and color:

The post Liz West’s Installations Are Made of Light and Color appeared first on PlayJunkie.

1. Pip & Pop

Pip & Pop is what one would imagine finding at the very edge of the rainbow. A colorful blend of sculptures, paintings, and installations, it’s the brainchild of Australian artist Tanya Schultz. “My work seems to have gotten more and more intensely colorful over time” she shared with Hot ‘N’ Gold magazine. “Sometimes I step back and think… oh dear, what have I done!? So much color it could make you fall over.”

2. Gilles and Cecilie

Much like Pip & Pop, artistic duo Gilles and Cecilie like to keep things colorfully messy, with their art (both personal and commercial) spanning across different mediums. From illustrations and murals to animation and environmental design, the Norwegian and French designers don’t shy away from color, attracting brands like Nissan, Diet Pepsi, and the Guardian.

3. Velvet Spectrum

Luke Choice (aka Velvet Spectrum) also sticks to vibrant colors, with his digital illustrations the very meaning of eye-popping. Aside from his illustrations, the Los Angeles-based artist also incorporates animation and typography into his work, with the end result both playful and unique.

The post These Artists Draw Their Inspiration From ALL the Colors of the Rainbow appeared first on PlayJunkie.

Inspired by Jungian therapy and creative exercises, Malavida also remains a way of self-expression as well as a tool to raise emotional intelligence and mental health sensitivity, claims her site. Whatever it is – it seems to work.

“Being a graphic designer in the first place, I’ve also always been drawn to abstract and experiments in general,” said Rainaud in an interview with the Ohh Deer blog. “As far as I remember, before creating Malavida, I started playing with textures and visual effects for my graphic design projects while I was in school. I truly wanted to, one day, be able to build my own identity, based on the things I like and the way I am as a person. This trippy yet dark vibe has always been a part of my life, so I guess that my style and designs had to convey these aspects, in order to stay as true to myself as possible.

“My work always has this tangible to digital dynamic,” she adds. “I usually start by working with a mix of different types of paints, inks, and materials to create a base movement and vibe. In this step, I’m not bothering too much with the colors or displacements to look perfect. The second step is digitalizing the artwork through a scanner or a camera, and then moving on to my favorite part, post-production. This third step is all about movements enhancements and adding all these signature vibrant colors. To achieve this effect, I usually work with algorithms, 3D software such as Cinema 4D and of course Photoshop.”

Fall down the rabbit hole:

The post The Malavida Project Will Make Your Head Spin with Colors appeared first on PlayJunkie.

“I don’t like calling what I do a style,” she told Creative Boom. “I have an approach to my work that I have developed over many years in response to doing things I have not enjoyed and want to get more fulfillment from what I do.”

Adding a colorful touch to places like hospital wards and playgrounds,
she explores the many ways that color, pattern, and words can change urban environments.

“I will artwork every piece of pattern and text,” she shared. “With the large structures, I often collaborate with Luke Morgan on the structures, furniture, and interactions. I work with structural engineers, building contractors, scaffolders, tilers, clients or project managers, depending on the requirements for the project.”

“When I am painting a large-scale project I will call on a team of painters who I have shown my way of painting and they are paid and come and help me in the studio,” she added. “I am very particular and disciplined with the painting as it is often very complex, like a massive jigsaw.”

Take a look!

The post Add a Splash of Color to Your Life with Morag Myerscough’s Art appeared first on PlayJunkie.

“FriendsWithYou’s mission is to cultivate moments of spiritual awareness and powerful, joyous interactions,” the two artists write on their website. “Our work is not only about positivity,” explained Borkson in an interview with Fader. “It’s about facing the darkness with no fear and the entire spectrum of the human experience. Our work is a reflection of what we want for ourselves and then people have the choice to see it as they like.”

“The goal is to create communal experiences that make you feel something beyond the self and into the whole, basically the goal of all spiritual endeavors, and in doing so we use a very simple graphic language,” added 
Sandoval.

Check out some of their diverse body of work below.

The post Enter the Jolly Universe of FriendsWithYou appeared first on PlayJunkie.

The post Colorblind People Get To See Color For The First Time appeared first on PlayJunkie.

See his beautiful smoothies, cheesecakes and fruit bowls exploding with color and start thinking which one of his recipes you’ll prepare first!

The post Instagram Chef Creates Amazing Vegan Breakfasts and Deserts appeared first on PlayJunkie.

“I’m drawn to color because it just makes me so happy, it never fails to lift my mood,” explained Blythman in an interview with Kids Gifts and Toys. “When I’m creating new work I decide on a color palette first. Always. At present, I can’t get away from neon pink and peach.”

Her process, which more often than not includes paper collage techniques, involves covering big sheets of watercolor paper in a variety of delicious colors and copper or gold leaf. Blythman then cuts the sheets up only to put them back together again as new artworks. “I often add my signature hand-drawn and painted detail too,” she says.

“When I was young I always loved to cut, paste and layer paper and as a teen I would spend days drawing detailed illustrations of my teen idols,” she recalled. “So I guess in some form or another I’ve always been doing exactly what I still do now,” she adds. “Drawing, cutting + pasting, creating, making things.”

Her recognizable aesthetic has garnered her a legion of fans and a super happy portfolio of work with clients ranging from start-up businesses to high profile Australian and International brands. Here are some of her more eye-popping creations:

The post Laura Blythman’s Art is an Instant Mood Lifter appeared first on PlayJunkie.

“My most vivid memories of childhood are based on light and color, not necessarily together but sometimes,” she explained in an interview with Nulty+. “These experiences would be in a car, my dad driving through Barnsley town center, which at the time was lit with incandescent and neon lights. The light was much warmer then, an enticing glow.”

“I was always very perceptive, even as a child, and I would pay attention to the reflections on the floor, particularly on the wet floor so common in the north of England,” she added. “I found it really alluring. I have a lot of memories of being driven about places and being in transit.”

West’s investigation into the relationship between color and light is often realized through an engagement between materiality and a given site. According to her, our understanding of color can only be realized through the presence of light. By playing and adjusting color, she brings out the intensity and composition of her spatial arrangements.

“I think we need to be taken out of the ordinary and put into the extraordinary,” she says. “I’m not professing here that my work is extraordinary but it is about giving people an experience that they might not have day-to-day.”

Enter her unordinary spaces of light and color:

The post Liz West’s Installations Are Made of Light and Color appeared first on PlayJunkie.

1. Pip & Pop

Pip & Pop is what one would imagine finding at the very edge of the rainbow. A colorful blend of sculptures, paintings, and installations, it’s the brainchild of Australian artist Tanya Schultz. “My work seems to have gotten more and more intensely colorful over time” she shared with Hot ‘N’ Gold magazine. “Sometimes I step back and think… oh dear, what have I done!? So much color it could make you fall over.”

2. Gilles and Cecilie

Much like Pip & Pop, artistic duo Gilles and Cecilie like to keep things colorfully messy, with their art (both personal and commercial) spanning across different mediums. From illustrations and murals to animation and environmental design, the Norwegian and French designers don’t shy away from color, attracting brands like Nissan, Diet Pepsi, and the Guardian.

3. Velvet Spectrum

Luke Choice (aka Velvet Spectrum) also sticks to vibrant colors, with his digital illustrations the very meaning of eye-popping. Aside from his illustrations, the Los Angeles-based artist also incorporates animation and typography into his work, with the end result both playful and unique.

The post These Artists Draw Their Inspiration From ALL the Colors of the Rainbow appeared first on PlayJunkie.

Inspired by Jungian therapy and creative exercises, Malavida also remains a way of self-expression as well as a tool to raise emotional intelligence and mental health sensitivity, claims her site. Whatever it is – it seems to work.

“Being a graphic designer in the first place, I’ve also always been drawn to abstract and experiments in general,” said Rainaud in an interview with the Ohh Deer blog. “As far as I remember, before creating Malavida, I started playing with textures and visual effects for my graphic design projects while I was in school. I truly wanted to, one day, be able to build my own identity, based on the things I like and the way I am as a person. This trippy yet dark vibe has always been a part of my life, so I guess that my style and designs had to convey these aspects, in order to stay as true to myself as possible.

“My work always has this tangible to digital dynamic,” she adds. “I usually start by working with a mix of different types of paints, inks, and materials to create a base movement and vibe. In this step, I’m not bothering too much with the colors or displacements to look perfect. The second step is digitalizing the artwork through a scanner or a camera, and then moving on to my favorite part, post-production. This third step is all about movements enhancements and adding all these signature vibrant colors. To achieve this effect, I usually work with algorithms, 3D software such as Cinema 4D and of course Photoshop.”

Fall down the rabbit hole:

The post The Malavida Project Will Make Your Head Spin with Colors appeared first on PlayJunkie.

“I don’t like calling what I do a style,” she told Creative Boom. “I have an approach to my work that I have developed over many years in response to doing things I have not enjoyed and want to get more fulfillment from what I do.”

Adding a colorful touch to places like hospital wards and playgrounds,
she explores the many ways that color, pattern, and words can change urban environments.

“I will artwork every piece of pattern and text,” she shared. “With the large structures, I often collaborate with Luke Morgan on the structures, furniture, and interactions. I work with structural engineers, building contractors, scaffolders, tilers, clients or project managers, depending on the requirements for the project.”

“When I am painting a large-scale project I will call on a team of painters who I have shown my way of painting and they are paid and come and help me in the studio,” she added. “I am very particular and disciplined with the painting as it is often very complex, like a massive jigsaw.”

Take a look!

The post Add a Splash of Color to Your Life with Morag Myerscough’s Art appeared first on PlayJunkie.

“FriendsWithYou’s mission is to cultivate moments of spiritual awareness and powerful, joyous interactions,” the two artists write on their website. “Our work is not only about positivity,” explained Borkson in an interview with Fader. “It’s about facing the darkness with no fear and the entire spectrum of the human experience. Our work is a reflection of what we want for ourselves and then people have the choice to see it as they like.”

“The goal is to create communal experiences that make you feel something beyond the self and into the whole, basically the goal of all spiritual endeavors, and in doing so we use a very simple graphic language,” added 
Sandoval.

Check out some of their diverse body of work below.

The post Enter the Jolly Universe of FriendsWithYou appeared first on PlayJunkie.

The post Colorblind People Get To See Color For The First Time appeared first on PlayJunkie.

See his beautiful smoothies, cheesecakes and fruit bowls exploding with color and start thinking which one of his recipes you’ll prepare first!

The post Instagram Chef Creates Amazing Vegan Breakfasts and Deserts appeared first on PlayJunkie.