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It's wild that its the end of May already because May just started. Thankfully the era of that penguin demanding things from artists is done so I don't have to see that penguin. Less thankful that it means that there are fewer excuses for artists to repost their old work to be seen again, or for the first time. If you're an artist, remember to repost your old work. Most people haven't seen it. Those that have get to, once again. The average time a person spends looking at a single piece of art in a gallery is 8 seconds. Online it's less than that. Give people the gift of showing them the work, again.

博愛(HakuAi) by Hope Doe
Speaking of older work, here is a piece of Hope Doe's wonderful sumi and watercolour works. Hope Doe's work is this always in this muted palette, with a surreal and fairy-tale like quality. It's delicate and misty and has incredibly subtle colour use that really lets stuff like the glowing apple, here, pop. I highly recommend looking through Hope's website at more of this series.

Busan by Nadia Kim
Nadia Kim has done a couple of these tourism-style posters for place in South Korea. The other one I've seen is for one of the national favourite destinations, Jeju Island. I really like how in spite of all of the individual elements of this image are very simply done and almost minimalist in their approach, because of Nadia's colour use and general compositional sense, it's very unified and complete feeling. Gives a great feel for some of the more secluded parts of the city, though my experience of Busan was personally much more urban.

Sunset at the Southern Observatory by Anna Hollinrake
Anna in showing here a great approach to a big scene like this, in that they are putting focus only exactly where it needs to be. You don't need the exact detail on the back of the engine of hoverbike, because a smudge with do the same job. Instead you get gesture in the brushstrokes that gives the feeling of the clouds drifting over the hills atop which this observatory sits.

Pay Attention To Me by Kuuranen
I always love to see, in illustrations depicting the fantastical, that small human moments still exist. Kuura creates this very lived-in feel to this occult researchers desk space. It's also just really good use of a very limited palette: white, teal and the spectrum of yellow to reddish orange. The consistent use of circles in the shapes in the background is great at drawing your eye around the image, as well.

Tanks and Fighters by -moino-
This is a great example of taking a basic design and extrapolating it in a bunch of creative ways. Each one of these has great variations in shape and indication of purpose. Your imagination can start to do the work of: if this is the base model, what does it mean that it looks like this now? I really appreciate that there is both some that stay very close to the original design and then moino gets kinda wild. My favourite is the blue one with the big front arms that is sitting gorilla-like on all fours.

「illuminate」 by Chisato Yamashita
The word illuminate has been ruined for me so that when I see the word illuminate, I now think of a very absurd facebook post saying "fuck Illuminate, y'all are the reason the world is so messed up" as a poster confuses a lighting company with the secret organization, The Illuminati. Anyways, I love that folks have an instinct much like watching fire that leads us to be fascinated by the hypnotic undulations of moon jellies. Compositionally, I love that the only non-blue colours of any vibrancy, these textile polka dots, do an excellent job of leading the eyes to the different focal points of this image. They are surrounded by so much indigo that they sort of blend in, but it is that hue contrast that forms the general flow of the image.