Stella Blu's beautiful watercolors

Instagram has become the world's largest art gallery, with the opportunity to view different types of artwork from talented people around the globe. Thanks to the social networking site, I discovered the beautiful and evocative watercolor portraits of Stella Blu and am now one of her biggest fans. I love the color schemes, the contrast, almost everything about them.

Stella was born in England and moved to the United States when she was six. After that, she grew up in many different places such as Sri Lanka, Texas, Connecticut, and eventually California. Aside from watercolor, she also works in a variety of mediums, including colored pencil and sometimes acrylic and oil paints. From having her work featured in Fox's hit TV series New Girl to designing the cover art for Prince's album 3rdeyegirl, the Los Angles-based artist is already making her mark in the contemporary art scene.

To know more about Stella, be sure to check out her website and her interview with Mass Appeal.

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Enigmatic Shapes and Psychedelic Patterns

To say that I love Sanagi 's work is an understatement. Looking at her art feels sort of therapeutic, and I find her drawings refreshingly intricate. They're trippy, psychedelic, and resemble something that you might see under a microscope. Not much is Googleable about Sanagi, but that's fine. There aren't many artists these days that still pull off the whole mysterious vibe, so I commend her for that. By the way... they're all hand-drawn with pen and ink.

James DeRosso's ceramic monsters

I really like these whimsical ceramic creatures by James DeRosso. Yes, they have bulging eyes and toothy grins, but they're not scary at all. The Portland-based artist started making cute monsters while he was a student to jokingly create gargoyle-like guardians for the kiln. After other students kept taking his quirky little figures, he realized there was a market for them. "I'm enjoying the whole monster making niche," James says. "It's amazingly gratifying to be doing ceramics full time and especially to be a teacher introducing kids to the joy of clay." Be sure to visit his website and like his Facebook page for the latest monster news.

Here's a trippy reimagining of the zodiac animals.

These are the animals from the zodiac calendar as created by Japanese artist feebee . I can't even begin to imagine how long painting these hybrid creatures on wood panel must take, but the results are pretty amazing. Some of them look terrifying, some aren't scary at all, and one looks like the Pokemon Meowth. They're all eye-catching, but none of them mean as much to me as the one representing my own sign, the Sheep (also known as the Goat or Ram). The twelve animal signs represent twelve different types of personalities. It is said that people born in the Year of the Sheep can be very indecisive and lazy. Hmmm, I guess Chinese zodiac is pretty much legit.

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