Bay Area native Afton Love renders beeswax on her stove, preferring to make her own in her San Francisco-based studio. In addition to providing a sealant for Love’s graphite paintings, the beeswax blurs her line work to make it look soft and organic. Beneath the waxy surface, Love’s large-scale drawings explore natural textures and landscapes from rocky faces to nests, at times consuming an entire …
Haunting curvilinear forms dominate the work of Sougwen Chung, an artist with international roots and a flair for outspoken minimalism. Her most recent series—produced as a limited-edition print run for Ghostly International—portrays four natural phenomena with subtle coloration and high contrast. The individual members of “Étude Op. 2 No.1-4” take the names “Flight”, “High Tide”, “Cocoon” and “Bloom”, and lie somewhere between representation and theory. …
$36+ width=”100″ height=”100″ /> $36+ Graphite Writing Sculptures These diligently carved graphite writing sculptures are created by San Francisco artist Agelio Batle. Inspired by woodland beauty, the sculptures can be used like a pencil without rubbing off on your hands. Available from Shop Handmade, the olive branch is $40 and the twisting leaf is $48. width=”300″ height=”300″ /> Graphite Writing Sculptures These diligently carved graphite …
