Paper Is Pretty.

Ever since I can remember I have been obsessed with paper. Stationary shops were literally like my dream shop when I was a kid. If my Mum would've let me, I could have spent hours just wandering round looking at all the paper and pens and sheets of wrapping paper. 

I would save up my pocket money to buy colourful pads of paper, and bits of card and just keep them in my room until I had an excuse to make someone something pretty with them. I even had one of those fake little Post Offices once. I'm not ashamed. It was amazing.

So naturally, when I came across these gorgeous illustrations by Yulia Brodskaya made entirely of paper, I was in awe.

Works in Paper - Bianca Chang

Bianca Chang - Recent Works, June 2011 from Bianca Chang on Vimeo.

Photography Summer 2010

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Stains

I recently came across these gorgeous pieces by Canadian artist/creative Niall McClelland. The vibrant designs are simply created by leaked printer cartridges on paper, and the results are beautiful.

"Famous Faces"

Over the past few weeks I've been working on a series called "Famous Faces" - a collection of Fine Art portraits of legendary people dating right back to the 1920's. I'm holding an exhibition for the collection, at Rudeboy Studios in Norwich, from May 14th onwards.

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Marilyn

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I know Marilyn Monroe has been used over and over again in the past by different artist's, to the point of becoming a bit of a cliché, but I still wanted to do my own take on her, and found an awesome photo I hadn't seen before. If I was going to do it I wanted it to be something different, not the typical smiley pose you find with Andy Warhol prints, so thought this was perfect.

The Boy & I

I drew this over a year ago now as a present for my boyfriend, and finally got round to putting it up. 

Love you Jake.