Rich Gemmell is a freelance illustrator who has been working solo for 2 years. It sounds as though things are going well so far as several of his prints are sold out and he is currently tied up with several projects.
Melbourne-based artist and illustrator Michael Steele has updated since I last dropped in with a few more of his signature spheres of colliding objects. I particularly like the hand drawn examples such as the one above.
Painter Lamar Peterson lives and works in Brooklyn. He has some very unusual work that you can currently view at the Richard Heller Gallery website. Surreal, and slightly disturbing.
I am personally starting to tire a little of the hipster collage trend but I had to reconsider that notion yet again after being notified about the work of artist Patrick Tvillum. He has some pieces in his portfolio that definitely rekindled my interest.
Look at this horse. This horse is amazing. Don’t make me show you where the lemonade is made. The sweet sweet lemonade. Shut up and get on the horse.
Artist Bruce Wilhelm is responsible for some genuinely trippy stallion-inspired collage style paintings. After the initial shock of the strangeness, you can take in the technical skill required to achieve the imagery.
Kitsune Noir has teamed up with Society 6 to bring you the Kitsune Noir Poster Club. The first collection of poster artists include Frank Chimero, Mark Weaver, Jez Burrows, Cody Hoyt and Garrett Vander Leun. The artists were asked to create a poster about their favorite book. The end result is some really attractive Giclée prints on bright white, matte, smooth surface, 100% cotton rag, acid and lignin free archival paper. The posters were printed using Epson K3 archival inks and then custom trimmed with 2″ border. Kitsune Noir author Bobby Solomon is a genuinely nice person and it always comes through in his tone and posts to his blog. He’s a great person to support and he sincerely cares about bringing his readers news and links to emerging art and culture. Society 6 is also out to shed light on upandcoming artists and illustrators and are doing their best to start putting out more projects like this that help promote their work. Kudos to both.
If you are looking for some affordable art to give as a gift over the Holidays, you can find all kind of art goodies at Poketo. They have really grown from their original ‘wallet’ days to include, apparel, prints, stationary, homeware, accessories and more. I recently received an email from them and decided to check out their storefront and spend a little time there and was really impressed by the wealth of what they now have to offer. It’s always a pleasure to discover another site or vendor that is trying to make art affordable for everyone.
The print above was created by the ‘Little Friends of Printmaking’ and is just one of several offered in the Poketo print store.
Dan Bergeron has been creating subversive, photo-based street works for almost a decade. His work addresses social and political themes and sometimes only attempts to re-contextualize the physical space it utilizes.
His ‘Face of the City’ project is one of the projects you could file under ‘re-contextualization’ but the images are striking and even more so considering the occupied space.
Illustrator Therese Larsson creates some beautiful illustrations using everything from pastels to Photoshop. The tactility of the imagery, regardless of the method of production is never lost and each piece manages to stand on it’s own.
Illustrator Sanna Annukka really caught on to something special when she started incorporating her work into wall prints and the first image at her new website (above) portrays this realization in stark beauty. She also has a new storefront added to her new site that offers up some beautiful (yet pricey) prints.
Painter Kris Lewis studied Illustration at The University of the Arts in Philadelphia, but now resides in Los Angeles. He freezes the vivid emotions conveyed by the subjects within his paintings and uses a muted color palette in order to maximize the viewers focus. The end result is striking imagery.
Miss Bugs is actually a team of two comprised of one girl and one boy. There mishmash work combines imagery from popular culture with references to street culture and graffiti. They approach their imagery graphically, using collage, stencil, silk-screen and anything else they can get their hands on. The two artists are originally from Bristol and Wales but moved to London in 2001 where they have slowly emerged as heavy hitters in the street art and graffiti scene.
I was quite taken by their work, but it is sure to stir controversy amongst artists and creatives as it again uses preexisting imagery and art similar to the approach taken by artists like Shepard Fairey. I do think some of the work from Miss Bugs is much more original though and more akin to a streetwise version of Andy Warhol. You can read an anonymous (they keep with the Banksy theory) interview with the artists at Juxtapoz as well.
It has become commonplace for designers and illustrators to gather up a mass of images when starting a project to create ‘mood boards’ in order to both inspire, set the tone and help direct their thinking toward the desired creative outcome. Consequently there have been a few image blogs (of course there is always Tumblr as well). Haw-lin is one of those blogs. I have heard both praise and hatred for this type of thing from different artists and designers. The chief complaint I hear is that the original creators of the images are quite often never referenced and sometimes not even linked back to. Personally I like them and use sites like this to create mood boards but then often wonder if I am being over influenced by what I gather up.
What do you think?
Dutch artist Juul Kraijer has been exhibiting art since the mid nineties. Over the past 12 years she has devoted herself entirely to drawing having completed a total of 220 drawings.
Here is a quote from the in depth essay at her website:
“Unlike those artists who from time to time venture to take a new turning, I seem to be the type of artist who recognizes a small field as his or her domain, to be explored in depth and detail. In the drawings made during those twelve years, the main principles remain the same. Changes do not occur in the form of an abrupt break; instead, they appear as gradual shifts, leaving the core intact, like landscapes at the turn of the season.”
Her work is very simple yet hauntingly contemplative focusing primarily on the face and the human form interacting with nature. She has also taken up sculpture, photography and more recently experimental video but the contemplative tone remains throughout the new mediums.
Mike Perry was kind enough to send me a copy of Untitled 004 – The Art Book. The book (which feels a lot like a very nicely printed zine) features work by Brie Harrison, Byrony Lloyd, Keith Newton, Scott Massey, Charlie Duck & Joel Garcia, Anna Wolf & Brigitte Sire, Andrew Ackermann, Erika Somogyi, Nicolas Haggard, Porous Walker, Stephen K. Schuster, Juan Betancurth & Riley Hooker, Ahndraya Parlato, Deanne Cheuk, Aliki Braine, Tom Bubul, James Mahon &Micah Lidberg, Ana Laura Perez, Agnes Montgomery ,Cedric Bihr, Aurelia Lange, Hanna Terese Nilsson,Georgia Kokolis, Hanna Waldron, Heather Culp & Francis Parrilli, Jacqueline Di Milia, Lizzy Stewart, Lober Nogen, Alex Witjas, Meredith Jenks & Kate Wolf, Ida Borg.
Curated by Anna Wolf
Designed by Emily Anderson
There is some nice work in the book and it makes for a nice coffee table inspirational flip through. If you have something you think our readers might like (and please note this material is curated and your item may or may not be selected to be shared) you can send it to the Changethethought studio at the following address:
Changethethought
8100 W 10th Avenue
Lakewood, Colorado
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Thank you Mike. Good stuff.
Swedish sculptor Michael Johansson has some brilliant conceptual art in his portfolio. Everything is spot on. The thinking, the use of color and craftsmanship involved in producing the final product just doesn’t miss.
Via the big bang Booooooom.
Sexy and stunning fashion photography is spilling over the Flickr-folio of Matías Troncoso. Someone else is looking at his work too because his website has exceeded it’s bandwidth (check the Flickr first).
