I'm having a serious girl crush moment on the work of Toronto-based illustrator Shen Plum, whose line drawings are a mix of storybook perfection (anthropomorphic animals)and gorgeous, brightly-hued girls with prismatic rainbow accents
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| Yeah Yeah Yeah's Karen O |
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| Pics 2-4 from Girls Girls Girls (hopefully nothing to do with the Motley Crue song) |
Mournful but not morbid, ethereal without being wishy-washy and dreamlike without veering into cliched 'fairy-Lula-girl-in-a-wood-with-a-floaty-dress-on-a-tyre-swing' territory. Just my cup of tea.
Shen Plum shows her stuff mainly in Toronto, but you can buy jewellery and other bits from her
Etsy shop, prints from
ES Illustration and super-cool badges from
Stereohype, which are getting nicely settled into my wish list as I type.
