Hello from Scottish China, where from Edinburgh to Hong Kong to London to Shanghai to Brighton this illustrator woman doth go. Inspired by “toys, communist-era propaganda, the Fifties, the Forties, sweets and packaging,” what could stop such a painter. She’s Fiona Hewitt, and in this post you’ll see four new works from her store, the closest place you’ll get to her works straightaway. Drown yourself in color and magical excitement.
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So. Pop. Where are we at on that? Pop Art I mean, not my dad. Look at Pop and tell me that this is not part of it: color crayons used in their natural habitat (a coloring book) to adjust and enthusiastically embellish. Yes indeed, it was never the intent of the coloring book artists to have their works added to in such a way, but surely they must have considered it. And Hello Kitty! You don’t even have a mouth usually! Your face is a wide open acre of real-estate for me to build a playground on! Oh ho! The things that will be done!
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In here we’ve got what’s called an artshow full of acrylic, ink, and gold and silver leaf. It’s called “From Kojiki to Modern Heroism” and it’s made up of works from Tat Ito & Hiro Kurata. It’s flat, really flat. The word Kojiki refers to the oldest known chronicle of Japan in Japan. Modern Heroism, well, that’s what we’ve got. Discover for yourself the way Ito and Kurata turn elements into both simplicity and storytelling confusion.
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So I was about to do a post about the Moldy Peaches. I’m sure you’ll be able to peek at that in a few minutes. But on the way, I’d copied and pasted an image that, in the process, turned into a long row of digital nonsense. It’s really quite beautiful. In the gallery below is the whole thing cut up into pieces for you to take a look at or for free use on any project.
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This right here is unnatural nature at it’s finest. This is a show by the fabulous Josh Keyes, painter. The name of the show is “Fragment”, and the theme is transformation. Keyes is known for these paintings, unmistakably his: each of them with animals and urban fervor, each of them ultradimensional in their impossible flatness. Devour this newest set of 10 paintings, two of them unfinished, and witness the blocks cut out from another world.
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Here’s a fun little illustration project hacked on up by Konstantin Shalev. In it, several different “Space Crime” objects are created with interchangeable color schemes. What you see above is the ultra-smashed-together vision made for the final product – a bus. But check it out – look at that mass. The intensity of the color is only matched by the fineness of the detail. Not one object is made out of silly scale. Fabulousness.
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Turn your eyeballs to this. Andy’d be proud. Designer / Painter / fabulous Artist Christa Palazzolo’s made a wonderful set of paintings going by the name “Talking Heads.” Palazzolo’s taken famous names of famous or otherwise powerfully historic women, using them as tags for new-age portraits of strong or otherwise splendid looking women.
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Oh hooray! Designer Søren Severin revved up his personal-project engine and whipped up this fantastic color-bar based TV breaker for the fun of it. There’s a MTV stamp on the end for a bit of spice – it’d be right at home on the golden age of MTV in the early 90’s. If only we were in an age where we had a Music Television channel! Severin presents us with a video piece of what the fabulous retro future looks like!
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You’re going to have quite a time looking through these majestic works of fantastic fortitude. They’ve got so many colors in them your eyeballs will explode on site. They’re made not only of oil paints and canvas, but also of purest magic and Hawaiian sun-power. He’s currently living on Maui, painting both t-shirts and large scale fine art works for sale. The following is a collection of his most recent works.
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This post is a collection of hundreds of Star Wars photos from the set, of the movies, and from the promotional shots of the 70’s and 80’s. Doesn’t matter how you feel about Star Wars, it’s affected the way you work. The world you live in today is the world you live in today because of Star Wars. You’d better believe that. Its basically like this: Luke Skywalker: New York, Princess Leia: Los Angeles, Han Solo and Darth Vader: Minneapolis.
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Here’s how you carve out your little piece of the money. You find your nitch FIRST. Then you think about what they do. Crazies. Hippies. Weirdos. They need to feed their cats. Then need to make their cats into crazy cats. So what should you do? You should make a catnip brand called Cosmic Catnip. And put a crazy cat on the bag. Crazy cat!
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