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1.\u00a0Painting the same portrait over and over using slight variations in scale and palette, one can get a sense of how colors can play off of one another or evoke different moods. Hayley Mitchell<\/a> has done just this with the face of a woman with round cheeks, a floral headdress and large dangly earrings.
\n2. In artist Richard McVetis<\/a>‘s\u00a0portfolio is a collection of finely embroidered pieces which a sketch-like, abstract quality. In the series, In Pursuit of Time<\/em><\/a>, Richard has embroidered a collection of embroidered wool cubes with the finest stitches of black thread.
\n3. Designed by the\u00a0South African lighting company Willowlamp<\/a>, this amazing chandelier assembled by laser-cut steel is arranged to represent a mandala. The design reveals itself as you move underneath it.
\n4. Metro Queen<\/em> by Swedish-based artist\u00a0Jeff\u00a0\u00d6stberg<\/a> is a digitally rendered illustration that has qualities similar to that of a woodblock print or lithograph. He illustrations are rich in color and style.
\n5. Diagonal Press<\/a>, run by artist Tauba Auerbach, has a unique and irresistible\u00a0collection of enamel pins<\/a>. Oh, and some interesting (and affordable) artist books.<\/p>\n

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6. The work of Gunjan Aylawadi<\/a> is mind-blowing. She meticulously crafts each piece by weaving together tightly curled paper ropes. Many times her work includes geometric designs layered and stacked into complex patterns. Her large installations are quite a sight.
\n7. Transcriptions<\/em><\/a> is a beautiful landscape series from photographer Kyra Schmidt.
\n8. I really love Anna Hoyle’s gouache paintings of books<\/a>. The titles are hilarious, but I’m particularly tickled by the little “bookmark” legs dangling\u00a0from the pages of a stack of books.
\n9. These are the most beautiful pencil shavings<\/a> I’ve ever seen.
\n10. Hyperallergic<\/em> recently posted an article<\/a> on the repairs done to five whaling logbooks from Martha’s Vineyard Museum. In addition to the normal wear and tear, whaling logbooks can also experience water damage.\u00a0The repair work was done by the Northeast Document Conservation Center. Check out the article for\u00a0NEDCC’s treatment on the logbooks and more wonderful drawings of whales.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

1.\u00a0Painting the same portrait over and over using slight variations in scale and palette, one can get a sense of how colors can play off of one another or evoke different moods. Hayley Mitchell has done just this with the face of a woman with round cheeks, a floral headdress and large dangly earrings. 2. 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