10 Must Follow Pinterest Accounts For Your Artsy Side

Pinterest is full of amazing pins and boards designed to entice the creative soul that lives in each one of us. The problem is there are so many users pinning—often random and seemingly irrelevant—items on boards called “Art” and “Design” that it can be hard to find those amazing boards that have been curated to foster inspiration and spontaneous trips to the museum to soak up a little art and culture.

Fear not. I have taken the leg work out of searching Pinterest for hours to find these gems and put together a collection of accounts that have an eye for great design, beautiful typography, and fantastic color palettes. Check out these 10 must follow Pinterest accounts—and my favorite boards—that will delight your artsy side and possibly have you digging out your easel for another go at that masterpiece you were going to create so long ago.

1. Jessica Colaluca
{ creator & creative } of Design Seeds
Jessica has 45 fantastic boards to follow including one called Edible Color which features food in an array of delectable hues.
Favorite Board: Graphic Color

2. The Indianapolis Museum of Art
The Indianapolis Museum of Art has a collection of over 50,000 works of art.
A great collection of boards that feature selections from the IMA’s collection.
Favorite Board: Textile and Fashions Arts

3. National Museum of American History, Smithsonian
Real stories. Real stuff.
That about says it all.
Favorite Board: Lunch Boxes & Thermoses

4. Chad Syme
Designer, Photographer & KEXP’er
With over 8,000 pins, you are sure to find something you love on this designer and photographer’s boards.
Favorite Board: Animation and Character Design

5. Jennifer Chong
Graphic Designer. Food Lover. Photography Enthusiast. Traveler.
Jennifer and I could be such good friends.
Favorite Board: Type and Lettering

6. Daniel Bear Hunley
Southern Gent with a big smile and big ambition // Social Media Coordinator for Powell Creative // My momma raised me to have good taste.
And your momma did a fine job. Swoon.
Favorite Board: Packaging

7. Nick Karn
Ghost Face Killa Gorilla!
I have no idea what that means. Doesn’t matter, it’s really all about the pins.
Favorite Board: Letterpress

8. Charmaine Zoe
Loves travel, art and antiques, vintage fashion and ephemera, old movies and discovering new places. Tastes run to the more ornate, particularly baroque, rococo. chinoiserie, art nouveau and art deco.
She has over 95,000 pins. You will definitely find something worth pinning on one of her boards.
Favorite Board: Art—Paper Creations

9. Igor Ovsyannykov
Inspirationfeed provides useful information about design, inspiration, resources, and other web related topics.
With boards titled Harry potter Tribute and 404 Error Page Designs you have to at least take a peek at a few pins.
Favorite Board: Minimal Poster Designs

10. Jeff Andrews
Jeff Andrews is a graphic designer, illustrator and aspiring photographer living in Oregon. “Don’t let the world define you. You define yourself, and let the world take notice.”
Well said, Jeff. Well said.
Favorite Board: Design

Don’t these make you want to create something right now? Share your favorite art and design related Pinterest accounts, boards, and pins with us in the comments. Happy pinning!

Holly teaches design at a small NW Ohio college. She spends her days off hanging out with her foxy musician husband and their gorgeous new baby and ridiculously smart pre-school aged son. Holly has a passion for food, photography, beautiful letter forms, and the possibilities that can be found in a single sheet of well made paper. You can read more from Holly on her blog, Artist Mother Teacher.