Archive | February, 2012

29 February 2012 0 Comments

Pixelated Dreams – Uno Moralez

Moscow based Uno Moralez is one of the most fascinating illustrators and comic artists abound. His vision of the world seems part nightmare, part fairytale, part Surrealist, it’s all starting to sound like an experiment that Dr. Frankenstein might’ve conjured up. Which wouldn’t be too far from the truth – think high octane Gothic meets [...]

28 February 2012 0 Comments

Katsuyo Aoki’s Porcelain Skulls

Japanese artist Katsuyo Aoki‘s porcelain skulls are absolutely stunning. Amazing sculptural and architectural details make for some of the most impressive skull art I’ve seen so far. See more here.

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27 February 2012 0 Comments

Überkraaft – Matt Williams

Überkraaft aka Matt Williams is a Southend based freelance illustrator and painter with a cool style, a great sense of humour, clients like sportswear giant Adidas, and perhaps even a big future ahead for this guy. Spread some Uberkraaft on your mental toast with these beauties…

26 February 2012 0 Comments

The Mail Art of Wenchkin

Check out Wenchkin‘s über cool selection of cards, created one a day for her 366 Mail Art Project… Wenchkin is a self trained underground artist currently living in Albuquerque with a passion for comic art, Star Wars, sugar skulls and Dia de Los Muertos (Day of the Dead) iconography. See her store at ArtFire, plenty of [...]

25 February 2012 0 Comments

Coat Hanger Christ – David Mach

David Mach is a biggie in the UK. A Turner Prize nominee known for his amazing matchead sculptures including one of the Devil has continued the theological theme with a 9ft sculpture of Jesus on the cross. Aptly entitled Die Harder, the figure has been created from of 3000 straightened coat hangers. The sculpture was [...]

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24 February 2012 0 Comments

The Beer Painter – Karen Eland

  Over the past year Karen Eland, an artist well known for her coffee art has moved onto something stronger, her beer paintings have been making waves around the world, especially in Dubai where she’s made a big name for herself. Karen has been painting since she was 14 and for the main part recreates [...]

23 February 2012 0 Comments

Paradise Parking: Automobiles Reclaimed by Nature

Paradise Parking: Automobiles Reclaimed by Nature by Paris based photographer Peter Lippmann is a photographic series (and forthcoming book release) featuring the awesome power of nature busy at work… reabsorbing the crap we not-so-smart monkeys decide to leave behind.

22 February 2012 0 Comments

50,000 Unseen Graffiti Photos Released By GlobalStreetArt.com

Global Street Art (GlobalStreetArt.com) are releasing a previously unseen street art and graffiti archive online! Its a database of over 50,000 photos from 20 countries (all taken by street photographer Lee Bof). It’s well organised in the same vein as Unurth – so you can search for artists, techniques and even content… there are over [...]

22 February 2012 0 Comments

Food Glorious Food – Joel Penkman

Maybe it’s because I skipped breakfast but British artist Joel Penkman‘s series of food paintings really make my stomach rumble. It’s rare to see food painted so clearly and accurately without it ending up looking like plastic. There are probably a ton of allegorical metaphors floating around here, but all I can think of is [...]

21 February 2012 0 Comments

The Art of Brucey

Bruce Parker aka Brucey is a young British Artist and Animator from Newcastle, England. Brucey’s surreal ink art features famous characters swimming in a sea of highly familiar patterns, icons and objects. Hypnotic, funny, awesome.