Archie McPhee recently featured a few CATerpillars, by Casey Weldon.
So many legs to cuddle with! They look like they want hugs.
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Casey Weldon: Caterpillars
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Gregory Thielker
Gregory Thielker has an interesting series of photorealistic water-obscured window views entitled Under the Unminding Sky.
He states:
These paintings reflect my interest in the way that the road delineates and controls how we experience landscape.
From the roadway perspective, we not only travel from one place to another, we see landscape in a varied and complex manner. I use water on the windshield to create a shifting lens for the way we see the environment: it both highlights and obscures our viewing. Perspectives slip and compress, while shapes and colors merge into one another.
I also work with relationships between surface and depth, between flatness and illusion. These images are born out of real experience and have a close relationship with the medium of painting: its fluidity, transparency, and capacity for layering, mixing, and blending.
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Aldo Katayanagi
Quick post today! I bring you a few selections from Aldo Katayanagi
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Audrey Benjaminsen
I recently came across Audrey Benjaminsen’s work for the first time. This gogreous lady caught my eye…
Her bizarre and beautiful pieces are sometimes drawn, sometimes painted…
…And sometimes animated! I feel like this should be a meme on message boards to combat a conversation that’s gotten out of control. Far more fantastic than typical memes.
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Somefield: Alice in Wonderland
Most of us are used to seeing Alice (apart from the original book illustrations) depicted in vibrant colors. Somefield has a slightly different interpretation.
Here we find spindly renditions of classic characters done in a (mostly) muted color palette.
As opposed to bold, retina-burning hues, the psychedelic feel of these drawings comes from the delicate wavy line work and placement of color.
What do you think?
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KriSoft
KriSoft, aka Christophe Goussault, is a French illustrator and paper mache sculptor.
As a child, he dreamed of creating a store filled with toys and games, and it’s clear that hos work maintains a kind of childlike wonder and imagination.
But he also incorporates a great deal of nature and metamorphosis in his creations.
He says “The need to make people dream is an essential thing for me.” I feel he succeeds!
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DZO
Another French artist today: DZO. His addition to the Gioconda Project (an international collection of artists’ personal imaginings of the Mona Lisa) was perhaps my favorite in the bunch.
I applaud his decision to make this classic work, the subject of much mystery and intrigue, reversible.
He uses the term “Biofusion” to describe some of his series’, which I think should be universally embraced to describe the magnificent contemporary art offerings that involve the mingling of flora, fauna and natural/manmade structures. Doesn’t it work nicely?
From the artist bio:
His art, speaks to the old etchings and engravings of religious and occult manuscripts, flirts with alchemy, witchcraft and blasphemy. It is at the same time disturbing, haunting and stimulating. His intricate drawings, full of enigmatic detail, mix sensuality, darkness and mythology. The message beyond the lines are sibylline, surrounding the world of DZO with mystery and fascination.
DZO. His addition to the Gioconda Project
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Damian Majcherek
Things are hectic non-blogular real life, but I want to share this terrific image by Damian Majcherek.
He looks mildly puzzled that his guts are all over the forest floor. Isn’t it the perfect blend of glowing, ethereal fantasy land and evisceration?
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Juli Adams
Juli Adams has made me wonder what it would be like to have a floating manatee as a pet. I would give him plenty of air to flap around in. I think it could work out.
In her work we can see magical echoes of her past, growing up in a secluded area where the surrounding land held many secrets (I love how she cites the outdoors as a personified character that helped shape her).
I probably would have loved this mobile as a child.
These two seem to be in the midst of an argument.
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Aleksandr Kosteckij
Finding information on Russian surrealist painter Aleksandr Kosteckij is no easy task. Perhaps there are simply no English websites with pertinent details.
His dreamworlds lure the viewer in, as the eye feels the familiarity of recognizable shapes that subsequently blend into alien structures that intrigue and confuse.
Is it just me, or do you instinctively try to piece the images together? To create a kind of narrative composition in this detailed work…only to find it utterly impossible?
See many more here.
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Michael Hacker: Brainwashing Machine
If only illustrator, comic and poster artist Michael Hacker would paint my washing machine! What a perfect vision this would be upon opening the laundry closet doors.
I rather wish I could just pour some detergent into my brain and give it a good cleansing when there’s too much grime built up. Wouldn’t that be great?
His two dimensional art is full of fun, lowbrow goodness, too.
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Kamille Freske
I’ve seen Kamille Freske’s described as “ethereal,” but something about it reminds me of some vintage pulp horror art (which, for me, is a great thing).
Perhaps it’s the cool color palette or the brush technique.
She states:
Art is the ultimate escape for me. It allows me to leave this world for hours, and truly make my dreams come alive. I never grew out of the childhood stage of playing pretend. I am constantly daydreaming, and creating worlds and alternative realities inside my mind.
Art is the way I translate these dreams and fantasies into something tangible, and hopefully relateable. My sincerest hope when presenting my art is that it will instill emotion within the viewer.
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Checanty
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100 Days of Rainbows (#lovewins)
You won’t find too many standard rainbows on this blog, simply because I gravitate toward the darker side of art. But the recent US Supreme Court decision for nationwide marriage equality warrants a special celebration.
Julie Seabrook Ream, a dedicated mother and artist who could never pick a favorite color, has endeavored to make a rainbow collage every day for 100 days.
These collections newly frame the most mundane household objects. Anything can be art in the right hands.
Soapbox side note:
While I’m ashamed to live in a world where race, gender, sexual orientation (or other arbitrary factors determined by the dominant power structure) has any bearing on an individual’s rights or happiness, I’m heartened to see that human beings are evolving enough to begin dissolving our self-created boundaries. Congratulations to the LGBTQ community on an embarrassingly long overdue victory!
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Desktop Goodies 7/10
Apologies for skipping a couple days this week, but between huge health setbacks and mold remediation in the SWS house, things are a bit hectic.
What happened on this beach to necessitate a sign like this (well, I guess that’s self-explanatory).
What question did someone ask him to warrant this answer? Ideas?
I’m assuming this is a gag product (the source where I found it said it’s unironic, which was perhaps more entertaining than the ad itself).
Facing the shadow…
I had to look up where this fellow came from. Now I must see Ultraman Tarou. Has anyone seen it?
Well, that’s supportive.
Careful, parents, it could happen to you.
Answer: don’t.
Now THIS cat is a work of art.
“Hey, you’ll never believe where I’m calling from.”
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Artist, Anyone?
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Paul Jackson
Paul Jackson is a gifted anatomical artist who uses his fine technique to create images that straddle the boundaries of life and death.
Whether these pieces are metaphorical statements about breaking through the confining shell of one’s own exterior or just awesome pictures with skulls, his detailed line work and crosshatching make these creatures come to life (or…a kind of meta-life).
Look at these stickers! Fantastic!
Wouldn’t it be fascinating if this were really what went on in the bellies of Rhinos?
Newman?
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Kmye Chan
I could have sworn I posted about Kmye Chan before, but could not find the post. Perhaps I only posted this single image which spoke to me greatly, as I’ve often hoped these bed/housebound years of mine during illness would be my chrysalis.
Those hands! So delicate, and beautiful…
But the portfolio also contains figures with great power…
…and pain.
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Marta Adan
I’m absolutely captivated by this Marta Adan piece; the glowing pink palette, the delicate beauty mixed with the raw presence of bone. The alchemical symbol for antimony (which represents the wild, animal spirit within man) graces her forehead. What a way to elevate a color so often associated with childish or hyper-feminized images.
A sickly but radiant green washes over this lovely woman, emblazoned with the symbol for arsenic. Some people are, indeed, poison.
I love her deviantART portfolio because it shows an impressive progression. Her early works are good, but she’s clearly refining and developing her style beautifully.
An occasional dark color scheme makes an appearance as well.
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Lorenzo Alessandri
Today I bring you two safe-for-work paintings by Lorenzo Alessandri, better known for his grotesque, controversial surrealist pieces.
He was unafraid to tackle horror, death, politics, sexuality and just about any uncomfortable subject. But I’m partial to his monster paintings.
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