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Fish Indie

Creating an Etsy shop is easy, but like anyone who has an Etsy shop
will tell you, getting your products seen is the hard part. Enter Fish
Indie, a new service that makes it incredibly easy to get your shop the exposure you seek. All you have to do is enter your product link on the website and et voila, a banner is created that will rotate on art and design websites (you can see it in action here on the blog – just cock your head to the right sidebar!)

The developers made the whole process easy as well – you don’t need to worry about coming up with titles or choosing the right image (you’ve already done that on Etsy!) – you know, the kind of things that distract you from working your craft.

Some screenshots!

We’re very proud to partner with Fish Indie by being a part of their ever-growing Art + Design circle, with our favorite fellow blogs: Illustration Friday, Doodlers Anonymous and Brown Paper Bag.

Want to get in on the action? Here’s where you can sign-up for an exclusive invite.

Clear Skies and Cloudy Days

Images © Susie Ghahremani / boygirlparty.com | Cross stich pieces: Illustration © Susie Ghahremani / boygirlparty.com, cross stitched by Irene Stone

Susie Ghahremani of boygirlparty will be exhibiting at the Land Gallery in Portland, Oregon from August 10-September 2, 2012, and she’s sharing some exclusive previews from the upcoming show with Pikaland readers!

She’ll be showcasing some of her personal work that’s done over the past three years, and this will be her first solo exhibition in Portland. There’s going to be well over 100 pieces in there, from miniature paintings to drawings; commercial illustrations, and a collaborative project with Irene Stone, the cross-stitcher to develop her drawings of extinct animals into cross stitch pieces.

“Entitled “Clear Skies and Cloudy Days: Artwork and Explorations”, the show will feature a range of experiments from “clear skies”, the joyful, animal imagery traditionally found in Ghahremani’s work, to “cloudy” subject matter such as vignettes of extinct species and loved ones lost at sea, offering a bittersweet side of her work rarely seen by the public.”

Where: Land Gallery, 3925 N. Mississippi Ave, Portland, OR 97227
Opening Reception: Friday, August 10th, 6 – 9pm.

Desktop wallpaper series: Heather Diane

This month’s desktop wallpaper comes from Heather Diane of Illustrated Bites (we featured her not too long ago!) who is a whiz at hand-lettering, illustrations and of course, someone who loves her food! You can follow her on Twitter as well. This month, she’s sharing an illustration of edible mushrooms for you to put up – you know, just in case you’re off in the woods and need to verify if that ‘shroom that you’ve picked up will kill ya. Compare carefully, friends!

Other sizes:

iPad: 1024 × 1024

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I know that we’ve sort of skipped July for the desktop wallpaper project (ooops!) but I’d like to think that it’s summer and all can be forgiven (even though it’s sunny all year round for me and it was a particularly challenging month… I’m digressing!)

To see all the artists in our desktop wallpaper series, head here!