Artistically Brilliant

When I was searching for blogs I liked, I came across a blog with a title that stood out called 'The French Toast Girl'. I thought it was a funny title so I clicked it and was immediately presented with a colourful, creative page of art work.

This blogsite is a portfolio of art in all it's forms, Abstract paintings, sketches and fine art.

The artist Elena Nazzaro is a illustrator and water colourist. This site showcases her talent in a relaxed, enjoyable and fun way. French Tast Girl- (as she calls herself) keeps her artist lover audience up to date with her work with a laid back account of what she's done, how she did it and what she plans to do next.

French Toast Girl has lovely, colourful and fun illustrations of people from different races and dream-like abstract art. She mainy focuses on the human form and expressions.
Her artwork actually reminds me of Roald Dahl illustrations, it has a very child friendly appearance and I could easily imagine these being illustrations on a childrens book.

This site is not a rigid portfolio of artwork but it's like a journal of the French Toast Girl's everyday life, as she mentions her motherly tasks when tells her readers about a page she found in a magazine, that she took advice from, which had the writing 'Be gentle with yourself'.

In the 'about' section she mentions'
'The basic philosophy of the french toast girl site is this: life (like french toast) is made up of simple ingredients that combine to make up a marvelous concoction we often take for granted. It's time to relish all the wonderful flavors in your life. And by the way, if you aren't crazy about the way your life tastes, remember: you're the one who controls how much sweetness goes on top, or if it's soggy and underdone'
I think this is a cool analogy of seeing things. It's inspirational and makes me want to get more out of life.

When I use to do Art and Design, it was a neccessity to always make a written and illustrated log of my thoughts and ideas to show my progression throughout a project. This site is kind of like an online logbook of the bloggers artwork. It's probably an online CV of her work too.

I would give this site a 9/10. It's eyecathing and inspiring, it makes me want to pick my paint brush up again. It's easy to navigate and the blogger gives the viewer external links to other works that she has done.

A creatively cool site!