Friday, June 19th, 2015
Continuing from last week, here are the remaining episodes of BONJOUR♪Koiaji Patisserie!
These are official, legal streams from Crunchyroll – watching them here helps support the anime industry!
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Saturday, June 13th, 2015
I first discovered and fell in love with Stephanie Pui-Mun Law’s beautiful watercolor art for the series of fantasy novels by Catherine Asaro, beginning with The Charmed Sphere. I was hooked from there and had to find more of the paintings from that artist! As I searched, I found that she also illustrated a few Magic: The Gathering cards that I’d marveled over when I was younger! Crazy, how things circle around and come back to you.
Someday, I’d love to have a bookshelf filled with these gorgeous art books Pui-Mun Law has published, filled with fantastic watercolor faerie worlds. Here is a selection of them (plus one deck of tarot cards)!
Dreamscapes Fantasy Worlds: Create Engaging Scenes and Landscapes in Watercolor
Breathe Life Into Your Fantasy Worlds! Heroes and heroines seek their fortunes in mysterious forests. Towering castles are built into the sides of mountains. Dragons and fairies soar through the sky and among the stars. And bestselling author Stephanie Pui-Mun Law is here to lead you, step-by-step, through the process of creating the forests, mountains, skies, stars and vistas in which these grand fantasy adventures occur.
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Dreamscapes Magical Menagerie: Creating Fantasy Creatures and Animals with Watercolor
Create Fantasy Creatures & Animals with Watercolor! Dreamscapes artist Stephanie Pui-Mun Law weaves her spell once again, this time with a focus on winged, underwater and four-legged creatures that captivate with their grace and impossible beauty. Step by step, you’ll learn how to partner with watercolor to paint koi, the Phoenix, Pegasus and other fantastical creatures to inhabit your otherworlds. Bring life to beasts of water, sky and woods. Follow along, step by step, to create sea turtles, owls, earth dragons . . . more than 20 mythical and real-world creatures. Expand your watercolor techniques. This book covers everything from the basics of assembling your tools and selecting paper, to tips for making colors sing and techniques for evoking mysterious, underwater, woodland and celestial settings. Embrace the possibilities! Sparkling with a sense of whimsy and wonder, and peppered with bits of legend and lore to inform and inspire your art, Dreamscapes Magical Menagerie opens your eyes to the makings of fantasy all around you. If you can dream it, you can paint it!
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Dreamscapes: Creating Magical Angel, Faery & Mermaid Worlds In Watercolor
Bring a Fantasy World of Enchanting Beings to Life! Angels, faeries and mermaids have engaged the imaginations and enchanted the brushes of artists for centuries. Now you can evoke the spirit of these mythical creatures and create fantastic works of ethereal art in watercolor. Step by inspired step, Stephanie Pui-Mun Law shows you how to paint the otherworlds’ most marvelous creatures and exquisite settings. Twenty step-by-step projects show you how to create fantastic scenes that are elegantly styled, brilliantly colored, and alive with a sense of wonder.
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DreamScapes Myth & Magic: Create Legendary Creatures and Characters in Watercolor
Open this book, and enter a realm where fantasy springs to life in dreamlike colors, luscious textures and graceful compositions. Continuing the journey of the original Dreamscapes, this second book by Stephanie Pui-Mun Law explores—in words and beautiful watercolor imagery—more legends of the sea, sky and earth. Learn Stephanie’s secrets for calling forth maidens, mermaids and bewitching moonlight, for evoking dragons, enchantresses and tricksters, for turning seeds of legend and lore into spellbinding characters, creatures and settings.
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Surrender to the fantastical world of your deepest dreams . . . where butterflies float upon shifting mists set aglow by the rising sun. A place where twisting branches arc across shimmering skies, willowy fairies dance on air, and tree spirits sing from a hallowed oak. Delve into the shadows of your dreams–and awaken to truth. Weaving together Asian, Celtic, and fantasy styles of artwork, this breathtaking new Rider-Waite-Smith-based tarot deck by renowned artist Stephanie Pui-Mun Law is infused with universal symbols found in fairy tales, myths, and folklore from cultures around the world. A companion guidebook presents the artist’s evocative interpretations of each card’s significance. It also features an introduction by award-winning tarot expert Barbara Moore that includes tarot basics, instructions for giving insightful readings, and practical spreads.
Friday, June 12th, 2015
BONJOUR♪Koiaji Patisserie is so thoroughly sweet!! The desserts these gorgeous characters whip up are borderline food porn. Personally I am a huge fan of how beautifully the characters’ eyes and hair are drawn and colored. Maybe this is a weird thing to focus on, but I am completely in love with the color palette of this series??!? It’s so soft and pastel.
Oh, yeah, these are short episodes, too, so you can enjoy many of them in succession, if you can tolerate the overload of sugar.
These are official, legal streams from Crunchyroll – watching them here helps support the anime industry!
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Friday, June 5th, 2015
Cool and thoughtful protagonist Tatsumi encounters a merman struggling on the riverbank one day and takes him home to recover, unknowing the depths of the merman’s vanity and general goofballness. Many silly and cute interactions ensue between them and the handful of other cute fishy boys that drop by, like an octopus boy, a jellyfish boy, and tiny hermit crab boy. The episodes are short, which makes it easy to sit back and enjoy several of them. :3 Also the opening theme is hilariously unfitting.
These are official, legal streams from Crunchyroll – watching them here helps support the anime industry!
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Sunday, May 31st, 2015
Hey sailors! ^o^ Today’s cute Sailor Moon choices come from J-Fashion Harajuku, which is one of the shops covered in my Favorite Aliexpress Stores article!!
Sailor Moon Usagi Print Suspender Shirt
A cute navy blue t-shirt with suspenders built in –
the usagi print resembles the heroine’s iconic bed sheets!
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Navy Blue Sailor Moon Cat Silhouette T-shirt
Kitties Artemis and Luna are shown in silhouette on a crescent moon
for this cute, casual t-shirt~
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Sailor Moon Crystal Short Crop Top
Possibly the most stylish item in today’s roundup,
there are so many cute, small details in this crop top,
like the pale rows of hearts and stars under the bow!
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Cute Sailor Collar Sailor Moon Kitties T-Shirt
Another t-shirt featuring the kitties,
this one actually has a sailor collar built in!
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Sailor Moon Uniform Printed T-Shirt
Perhaps a bit plain compared to the other cute tops in this roundup,
but a simple, classic look can be perfect too!
Who doesn’t want to casually wear that iconic uniform’s bow?