The Home-Journal

This week on The Home-Journal I talk through my favourite colour schemes by Dulux and as an extra special incentive to read it... there's a giveaway!! So head on over to see what you can win! 

Tales You Lose

Often Instagram supports a self-obsessed type of world where people share an ideal picture of themselves for the world to see. Some accounts however are such a relief from this, like @zhion. This account features Brazilian designer, Andre Levy's ongoing art project Tales You Lose. Levy paints coins collected from his travels and turns them into tiny little treasures. He explains "I'm into painting coins and designing imaginary friends for myself." 

Aren't they awesome!!

Thomas Darnell

Texas born Thomas Darnell left his regular day job in 1992 after the loss of his wife to cancer two years prior. He moved to Paris to start doing what he had always wanted to do: paint full time and produce meaningful work. With the support of his new wife Nicole and their two kids, Darnell has 'pulled off' his dream. 

Darnell explains his work as "inspired by a need to find order and meaning in this beautiful disorder we call life... The illusion of spatial dimension and light is achieved through a technique involving multiple layers of transparent oil paint and alkyd resin. Starting with blurry images I refine detail and contrast with each pass and often erase some of the image with a thin wash of paint and go back to refining the details until the right balance is achieved."

The Home-Journal

Today on The Home-Journal I talk through the different types of interior paints available. Not a super inspiring article, but definitely something that interior decorators, designers and DIYers need to understand. Here's the link.