All images by Abbey McCulloch

Falconer gloves on a blurry girl holding a budgerigar? ... Just one of the many things that make Abbey McCulloch's work great. That and the fact she walks the fashion-illustration/fine-art line like no one else.

She also had a pretty entry in the Archibald.

She's currently firing up my colour-and-raw/messiness-inspiration ... hopefully I'll get some painting in over the weekend. 

Photography: Kesler Tran
Model: Rayne Ivanushka
Stylist: Chloe Chippendale (Instagram: @chloe_lovestoner) 
Fringe Vegas necklace by Heyoka Leather available here.
Crystal necklace by Torchlight available here.

Wow... new drawing muse, perhaps?

Photographer/stylist: Shae Detar

Model: Elle from Nous

I was walking down Elizabeth Street early this morning -- looking at the old building facades above the shops, waiting for the sun to climb over Flinders Street Station, admiring the fact that the streets of Melbourne's CBD are tree-lined -- and I was thinking about how autumn makes me really, really love this city. Winter makes me hate it, but right now the air is crisp and clear, the days are long and I still live in the best city ever. 

So when I saw these images that Shae recently shot in the mountains behind LA, I only felt a tiny pang of envy for the coming spring in the northern hemisphere... Just one look at these and you can feel the Californian sun. 

Shae's work as a photographer and artist is second-to-none... Check out more here. 

Late by two weeks and a couple of days... here's what's in my sketchbook lately. 

xx