Exploring the Void

Local Toronto-based, Japanese-born illustrator Yuta Onoda, has some beautiful illustrations in his portfolio. He plays with proportion, animals as symbols and has a sense of space, or emptiness in his work, which I find appealing. His colour palette is restrained and lovely.


The Mask She Wears. Mixed media and digital.


Hope Leaves. Mixed media and digital.


Exploring the Void. Mixed media and digital.


Shadowed by Coyotes. Mixed media and digital.


The Tiger Mom. Mixed media and digital.

Check out his portfolio here and blog here.

heads in trees

Check out the painting, illustration, screenprinting, graffiti, sculpture and street art of Polish artist Wojciech Kołacz, also known as Otecki. I love the sense I get that he has his own personal, elaborate folklore.

whimsy and tricksters

British illustrator Laura Bird makes magical objects in 2D and 3D, in painting and printmaking, involving wonderous things like masks, ideas, monsters and Norse mythology. You should check out her portfolio. You won't regret it. She is also part of the This is it collective.


This is Bor from her book The Norsemen.


This one was created for Amelia's Magazine for an illustration anthology based on renewable energy (like geothermal or "Hot Rock" technology).


Tribal linocuts


Loki (the Norse trickster god) made of papier mache, clay and wire.

mysteries and everyday monsters

Check out the romantic yet provocative work of the (outrageously) young, talented, English photographer Eleanor Hardwick:





{her flickr set is here; via siagrafica}