Alphonse Mucha

There are some that might call me crazy, that would happen to be my boyfriend. When I fall in love with something, it becomes my new obsession. And according to him, I have found the new one. This time around though it happens to be something actually pertaining to school. Well kind of...I'm an art education major. And it is official now since I was accepted to my 4 year college! But my new love has come in the form of Alphonse Mucha.
He is something that really has been a long time coming from what I can gather. I keep seeing his work around and it is something that keeps jumping out at me. His work is something that has inspired me from the first time I saw it a few months ago.
My college likes to have a sale once a year where they sell a bunch of art prints. The only downfall is is that they don't take credit. They only take cash. This could be a good thing considering the fact that due to Christmas and just a lot of crap in general I'm falling farther and farther in debt, but back to my point.

I was walking around looking at the different works and then I saw this beautiful set that were all sitting together. I was drawn in by the delicate female figures and thought to myself "That is what I wish I could draw". I didn't have the cash on me, so I took a few pictures to remember that I had seen it so at some point I could look into this work again.
Then yesterday I was at Barnes and Nobles. I just keep going to places where I know I'm going to spend money. I'm a dangerous person I have to say. I must intentionally tempt myself, that's all there is to it. But either way, I was walking around since I had just bought my dad's Christmas present. So I gave myself a bit of free time. I went into the art book section and was inspired to buy books for my future classroom. But somehow I didn't. So I walked away!
Then I walked into the calender section. I like them, they are useful and sometimes a whimsical picture is the kind of thing that gets you through the month. I really didn't expect to find anything, but then I saw two calenders. They were both Alphonse Mucha. He had come again.
After that I went online and started looking into his works. The more that I find the more beautiful they seem to be. They look a lot like a number of art series that I would love to start working on. Maybe series that I will have the time work on when I'm on break. This may start a whole new level of creativity.
So let me share more of his work with you. When I was parussing around on the interwebs I found a great resource for Mucha. It is actually the Mucha Foundation. They fund projects that involve his work and really just keep his memory alive in the art world.

Mucha Foundation