Contemporary folk artist Suzanne Urban combines illustrations and paintings with witty musings to create badges, pins, prints and original paintings; all of which are available for sale in her Etsy shop. No stranger to the art world, Suzanne already has an extensive portfolio of work in newspapers, greeting card companies, corporate graphic departments and publishing empires!

To spread some joy around, Suzanne is giving away a set of three badges (one was painted with coffee!) and a 5“x7” print with added collage wording and color worth USD$35.

Just leave a comment in this post (and feel free to share a joke or two) to be in the running! We’ll pick out a random winner after the 17th of January.

The giveaway has ended and the winner has been picked by random.org – bonbon! 🙂 Thanks everyone for joining in!

Back when Racheal contributed articles to the blog, she had an eye and a soft spot for artists who used tea and coffee in their art. So when Drew Mosley sent me an email about his beautiful artwork from coffee and tea stains, it made me smile! He generously shares with us his process too:

I work on paper and wood panel and start by loosely pouring and staining with tea. Eventually an image or composition will grab me and off I go. Sometimes just the act of pouring will flood me brain with ideas of possible paintings and I cant keep up.

Drew splits his time between building timber frame barns and homes on Vancouver Island and painting in his kitchen/studio. He is also inspired by trees, highly patterned prints, mystical wonderment, fantasies, the unknown and of lost connection to nature.

I’m sure Racheal would approve! 🙂