I’ve been researching for a couple of essays, so I’ve not done a lot of drawing. On top of that I am getting used to contact lenses which are being replaced because they don’t sit properly. I have to wear them anyway just to keep my hand in, suffice to say I can’t see very well. Instead of doing something really taxing today I will show you some of the works by other artists who inspire me and I admire.

There is so much great art out on the Internet that sometimes it becomes overwhelming. Here are a few of the places I go when the brain and the spirit need a boost. Make sure you have flash loaded and ready for bear to get the most out of a few of these.

The first website is Desktopography. They invite designers to create nature themed wallpaper for your computer.

This is a flash website - slow and clunky, but the music is suitably atmospheric and it does look pretty. By and large the wallpapers are very well done, some are actually even worth downloading.

Worth1000 is a website in a million. Dedicated to daily image manipulation contests and it’s also a gallery of all the entries ever produced for these contests. If you have never been there before - it is a hoot. There are way too many people out there with more time on their hands than is right or proper.

Jessy Veilleux is a 2D & 3D matte painter and concept artist.

Ronald Kurniawan is an illustrator and designer with a glorious sense of colour.

He paints, he sculpts and he sketches and he lives with his pug Ruffles.

Next is Marta Dahlig and I refer you to her Deviant Art gallery because her own website is not ready despite the December 2006 notification. I sympathise though as I know there is always something more pressing.

She’s a digital artist from Poland and her work is quite lovely.

Luke Felman has a website called Skaffs that contains both colourful and creative art and animation.

This next is a beautiful use of flash. Enter the world of Peter Gric and admire the website and paintings by this talented artist.

His are strange landscapes with detailed abstract buildings or richly detailed interiors that lead the imagination into uncharted territory.

The last artist for today is the furniture designer Judson Beaumont with an astonishingly childlike eye.

Magical is the word I’d use to describe the furniture and other creations that his workshop turns out. The clock above is the one I would buy if I had the money to do so.

So until next time, Logging off, Jools