I didn’t get around to telling you about a book I bought a month or two back by Chris Haughton.  It’s called ‘A Bit Lost’ and is filled with wonderfully simplified children’s illustrations that look like they’ve come from the 1960’s.  There may or may not be a small nod to the work of David Weidman here as the style has a similar quality.  Chris is an Irish illustrator living and working in London. He regularly illustrates for publications such as The Guardian and The Independent.

Chris has a wonderful loose style and humour seems to be a large part of his work. See these examples he did for the DVLA, to show possible reasons why people didn’t pay their car tax.

Do you ever feel the wild calling to you ?  He’s been busy making small animations and recently started looking at Pop Up Books too.

He also has…

Daniela showed me these amazing nails a couple of nights ago. I’m not one to wear nail polish—it’s a stubby-fingers issue combined with a ridiculous feeling of nail suffocation—or even appreciate it much, but these literal works of art painted on the small fingertip canvases definitely wowed me. Art lover (and nail art lover) Susi Kenna has had her nails painted numerous times in the past two years in the style of paintings by famous artists ranging from Pablo Picasso and Jean Dubuffet, to more recent artists including Shantell Martin and Barry McGee. It’s not clear to me whether Kenna goes in to her various nail artists (Mei Kawajiri, Vanity Projects, and Jessica Washick) armed with art, but it appears that may be the story. In any case, Susi Kenna has documented the nail art on her hands in a tumblr worth a peek.