{"id":2686,"date":"2012-09-18T13:26:22","date_gmt":"2012-09-18T17:26:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greynotgrey.com\/blog\/?p=2686"},"modified":"2012-09-25T10:38:45","modified_gmt":"2012-09-25T14:38:45","slug":"miroco-machiko","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greynotgrey.com\/blog\/2012\/09\/18\/miroco-machiko\/","title":{"rendered":"Miroco Machiko"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I found a pretty nifty art blog, today, <a href=\"http:\/\/eye-likey.blogspot.ca\" target=\"_blank\">Eye-Likey<\/a>. It is a visually rich, easy-to-find-your-way-around-in kind of website that showcases a pile of really great artists.\u00a0One artist I hadn&#8217;t heard of before (among several) is the incredibly awesome illustrator\/ artist <a href=\"http:\/\/eye-likey.blogspot.ca\/2012\/08\/all-children-are-artists.html\" target=\"_blank\">Miroco Machiko<\/a>. Machiko <a href=\"http:\/\/thedesignfiles.net\/2011\/11\/kirra-jamison-loves-japan-meeting-mirocomachiko\/\" target=\"_blank\">lives &amp; works<\/a> in Osaka, Japan. My regular readers know I&#8217;ve been making a lot of drawings of animals and birds lately, so since Machiko does a lot of work based on animals and birds I was of course naturally attracted to the subject. It&#8217;s how she handles it that is really inspiring, though. \u00a0Here&#8217;s a few tasters:<\/p>\n\n\t\t\t<div id='gallery-2686-1' class='gallery gallery-2686'>\n\t\t\t\t<div class='gallery-row gallery-clear'>\n\t\t\t\t\t<dl class='gallery-item col-3'>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon'><a href='https:\/\/greynotgrey.com\/blog\/2012\/09\/18\/miroco-machiko\/sloth\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"104\" src=\"https:\/\/greynotgrey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/sloth-150x104.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"Miroco Machiko - sloth\" srcset=\"https:\/\/greynotgrey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/sloth-150x104.jpg 150w, https:\/\/greynotgrey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/sloth-300x209.jpg 300w, https:\/\/greynotgrey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/sloth.jpg 827w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/dl>\n\t\t\t\t\t<dl class='gallery-item col-3'>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon'><a href='https:\/\/greynotgrey.com\/blog\/2012\/09\/18\/miroco-machiko\/bat\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"73\" src=\"https:\/\/greynotgrey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/bat-150x73.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"Miroco Machiko - bat\" srcset=\"https:\/\/greynotgrey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/bat-150x73.jpg 150w, https:\/\/greynotgrey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/bat-300x147.jpg 300w, https:\/\/greynotgrey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/bat-636x310.jpg 636w, https:\/\/greynotgrey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/bat.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/dl>\n\t\t\t\t\t<dl class='gallery-item col-3'>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon'><a href='https:\/\/greynotgrey.com\/blog\/2012\/09\/18\/miroco-machiko\/cheetah\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"105\" src=\"https:\/\/greynotgrey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/cheetah-150x105.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"Miroco Machiko - cheetah\" srcset=\"https:\/\/greynotgrey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/cheetah-150x105.jpg 150w, https:\/\/greynotgrey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/cheetah-300x210.jpg 300w, https:\/\/greynotgrey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/cheetah.jpg 849w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/dl>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class='gallery-row gallery-clear'>\n\t\t\t\t\t<dl class='gallery-item col-3'>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon'><a href='https:\/\/greynotgrey.com\/blog\/2012\/09\/18\/miroco-machiko\/fox\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"125\" src=\"https:\/\/greynotgrey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/fox-150x125.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"Miroco Machiko - fox\" srcset=\"https:\/\/greynotgrey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/fox-150x125.jpg 150w, https:\/\/greynotgrey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/fox-300x250.jpg 300w, https:\/\/greynotgrey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/fox-1024x853.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/greynotgrey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/fox.jpg 1378w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/dl>\n\t\t\t\t\t<dl class='gallery-item col-3'>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon'><a href='https:\/\/greynotgrey.com\/blog\/2012\/09\/18\/miroco-machiko\/imapala\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"53\" src=\"https:\/\/greynotgrey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/imapala-150x53.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"Miroco Machiko - imapala\" srcset=\"https:\/\/greynotgrey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/imapala-150x53.jpg 150w, https:\/\/greynotgrey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/imapala-300x106.jpg 300w, https:\/\/greynotgrey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/imapala-1024x363.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/greynotgrey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/imapala.jpg 1181w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/dl>\n\t\t\t\t\t<dl class='gallery-item col-3'>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon'><a href='https:\/\/greynotgrey.com\/blog\/2012\/09\/18\/miroco-machiko\/exif_jpeg_picture\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"103\" src=\"https:\/\/greynotgrey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/mountain-gorilla-150x103.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"Miroco Machiko - mountain gorilla\" srcset=\"https:\/\/greynotgrey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/mountain-gorilla-150x103.jpg 150w, https:\/\/greynotgrey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/mountain-gorilla-300x207.jpg 300w, https:\/\/greynotgrey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/mountain-gorilla.jpg 850w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/dl>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div><!-- .gallery -->\n\n<p>You can see a metric heckload more of Machiko&#8217;s work <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mirocomachiko.com\/illustration\/\" target=\"_blank\">on her website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I found a pretty nifty art blog, today, Eye-Likey. It is a visually rich, easy-to-find-your-way-around-in kind of website that showcases a pile of really great artists.\u00a0One artist I hadn&#8217;t heard of before (among several) is the incredibly awesome illustrator\/ artist&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[221,116,129],"tags":[175,128,223,117,120,403,538,539,126,127],"class_list":["post-2686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drawing","category-illustrators","category-painters","tag-art","tag-contemporary-art","tag-drawing-2","tag-illustration","tag-illustrator","tag-japanese-artist","tag-japanese-ilustrator","tag-miroco-machiko","tag-painter","tag-painting"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2JDlZ-Hk","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greynotgrey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2686","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/greynotgrey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/greynotgrey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greynotgrey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greynotgrey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2686"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/greynotgrey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2686\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greynotgrey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greynotgrey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greynotgrey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}