Beautiful Decay has released their summer line of apparel. There are some really nice examples of contemporary design and illustration meets the tee shirt canvas but my favorite ones by far are the super simple illustrations of designer Chris Gray. Classic.
Ted Vasin paints some highly unusual imagery that I wasn’t entirely sure how to interpret. Although I like all of it very much. Beautiful use of color.
Via Human Resources.
Jonathan Bergeron refers to his work as crapalicious but it is anything but. The lush colors, texturing and attention to detail in his work is really beautiful. The subject matter and approach might be referred to as ‘lowbrow’ but the craftsmanship, technique and end result is definitely ‘fine’ art in my opinion. I’d hang that crap on my wall.
Jim is a ‘skull artist‘ pure and simple. I think a lot of people are over the whole skull thing but there is something more contemporary about Jim’s art that seems to draw more influence from ancient and even pagan ritualistic art.
Kirk Demarais does bad art good with some really funny movie-based celebrity portrait paintings that look like something painted by the girl from Napoleon Dynamite. They seem to be selling very well and they are hard not to like and would definitely be a talking piece. The family from ‘The Jerk’ above is classic.
I am really amazed and impressed by the silicon sculpture work of artist Sam Jinks. It is a little frightening too look at but there is something deeply contemplative and haunting about it. The singularity of the isolated figures draws you into serious thought on the human condition.
There is a strange and unusual body of work in the Flickr-folio of Danilo Base-V. You can also learn a little more by visiting his website or his blog.
There is a large body of fun and stylistic illustration work within the Flickr-folio of Theory 1.
Photographer, Qiu Yang has one of the more unusual portfolios I have stumbled on in the last several weeks. All of his imagery is unexpected to say the least and his use of color is lush, vivid and striking.
“Maya Bloch’s paintings focus on the depiction of human figures – group portraits in round-the-dinner-table scenes – alongside single portraits of women, some in a forest environment. Anna Veronica was the original, now almost forgotten, name of Bloch’s mother, before she was granted a new, Hebrew one, upon her arrival in Israel at the age of five. Its employment does not point to a preoccupation with the artist’s biography, but vice versa – to a kind of metaphorical ghost symbolizing for her the possibility of otherness to inhabit a familiar space and the possibility of melding real and fictional biographies. This doubling is expressed in the way Bloch produces the subjects of her portraits, which are based on photographs she culls from newspapers, other people’s family albums and the internet; she ‘harasses’ these family photographs and ‘imports’ them into her own world, in this way resuscitating unknown identities and making up other people’s emotional worlds. But even though she relates to the photographs’ characteristics by borrowing their compositions, she does not search for a realist context but rather dredges up the dark psychic situations that lie behind the photographed figures’ representational ‘poses.'”
Got a tip on this one in my email. All I can say is wow. Seriously beautiful and contemplative body of work centered squarely on the human condition. Just beautiful all the the way through. You can see her work at her website or see much much more in her Flickr pages.
Amazingly, Turkish artist/illustrator Kerem Beyit has no formal illustration training which after viewing his amazing work is almost impossible to believe. His work is gushing with talent, craftsmanship and attention to detail.
Kate Banzai is an illustrator/screenprinter/collage artist who has a large volume of really colorful and highly composed work in her Flickr-folio. She also has a website but the real magic is happening in her Flickr pages.
Artist Ryan Browning is based in Baltimore and has some really interesting work consisting of hex-like wooden structure sculptures as well as what I guess I would describe as psychedelic surrealist landscapes with a strong emphasis on geometric structures. All and all there is some really striking images in his body of work that definitely provoke the imagination.
Tim Hon Hung Lee got in touch today to let me know he had updated his portfolio with some new works. His line work is really amazing. That is no easy task to replicate with a pen.
Wow, I am super impressed by the illustration and just the rendering/drawing ability of illustrator Martine Johanna. Really inspirational work.
Madrid artist/photographer Gabriel Sabando has some really unusual work happening throughout his portfolio. All of which is hard to take your eyes off of.
I stumbled across this amazing collection of carefully curated art in the flickr account of Sarcoptiform via But Does It Float. There is just some really amazing work happening in the collection. I was crazy inspired. I cannot wait to pick up the pencil tomorrow. Some of the work made my brain want to jump out of my head.
Scott K Macdonald has some really fun illustration work, and a lot of it in his Flickr-folio. You can also visit his personal website here. Scott received his degree in Graphic Design from the NSCC, Marconi Campus in 2000. He also received another degree in Digital Animation from the NSCC, Truro Campus in 2002. Scott currently lives in Vancouver, BC where he works as a freelance animator and illustrator.
