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A collection of light and dark artists that we’ve stumbled across this evening online. Please take a moment to visit each artist’s portfolio – there is far more beautiful work from each to be seen! *We’ve not been able to find the original source of the Death Eater concept mask. Most sites list it as concept art for the movie. If you know the actual artist, please let us know. Thank you!

Andrew Gonzalez	Death Eater Concept Mask	sv.arh	Erwin Olaf	Franko Wiktor

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These are some wonderful artists we’ve stumbled upon through our tumblr account. Below are a few samples and direct links to the artist’s website. Our tumblr account is always scheduled to post wonderful work daily, if you have an account there, please add I&A!

Mark Powell	Death & the Maiden	Christian Bienefeld	Philip Banken	Vladimir Clavijo

“sigur rós have given a dozen film makers the same modest budget and asked them to create whatever comes into their head when they listen to songs from the band’s new album valtari. the idea is to bypass the usual artistic approval process and allow people utmost creative freedom. among the filmmakers are ramin bahrani, alma har’el and john cameron mitchell.” taken from the the valtari mystery film experiment.

EDIT: Reader Clara was nice enough to send us a link to the making of the video – a neat little seven minute piece after the cut

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“Male fantasies, male fantasies, is everything run by male fantasies? Up on a pedestal or down on your knees, it’s all a male fantasy: that you’re strong enough to take what they dish out, or else too weak to do anything about it. Even pretending you aren’t catering to male fantasies is a male fantasy: pretending you’re unseen, pretending you have a life of your own, that you can wash your feet and comb your hair unconscious of the ever-present watcher peering through the keyhole, peering through the keyhole in your own head, if nowhere else. You are a woman with a man inside watching a woman. You are your own voyeur.” Margaret Atwood, The Robber Bride

Just one of the many enchanted shears of Etta Diem from the Snapdragon Tea stories. Continue past the clip to read the whole story…

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New promotional poster for the fourth issue of Insects & Angels, Constance Parthena’s Nymph & Mermaid Emporium. Follow the read more link for poster purchasing information.

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We’re having another visit with one of our favorite doll artists Virginie Ropars. The detail to her pieces is just so incredible. You can see our first feature of her work here. And make sure you visit her website as many of these wonderful creations are available for purchase.

I stumbled across this incredible artist on tumblr today. It was one of those rare entries where the artwork leads back to a nice bit of information about the artist in question. So as to not steal the thunder of the original article, we link to the full article on Russian artist Sergey Kustarev here. Have a look! There’s some incredibly beautiful work here.