Eric Fortune is an artist based out of Columbus, Ohio. Lyrical, haunting, yet poignant at the same time, Eric Fortune’s paintings make lasting impressions. These are characters who are neither out of place in the world, nor at home in it — they are characters wrapped in their own worlds. The emotionally complex metaphors Fortune paints are richly evocative. His imagery is quiet yet dynamic, and seasoned with a touch of surrealism that takes us to captivating places, beyond our everyday experience but filled with truth. Continue reading »
Aug 222010
Jun 212010
Ann Marshall grew up in Atlanta, Georgia and earned her BFA from School of Visual Arts in New York City. She has worked in a gallery, illustrated an award winning children’s book on the Holocaust, and traveled nationally and internationally as an ethnographer and consumer anthropologist . Her fine art work has been exhibited in New York City’s Gallery at Lincoln Center. She now works as a portrait and fine artist, working with a combination of traditional media and paper collage.
Jun 082010
Apr 072010
Some lovely illustrations by Berlin based Russian artist Lesja Chernish.
Mar 192010
Mar 172010
Flyapart – European based art collective
Drawing, Illustrations
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Feb 152010
Flyapart are an European based illustration and design collective. They promote their work through personal and collaborative projects, self-initiated and commissioned. The group create individual artwork of common interest and showcase their work together via exhibitions, zines and other publications. Flyapart strive to provide an eclectic and diverse range of artworks. The result is what Flyapart hopes to be challenging and beautiful imagery.
Artworks by Otilia Cadar
Illustrations, Painting
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Jan 302010
Diary Windows is a reflexive visual journal. It’s a way of introspection and discovery rising from the need to uncover the hidden world of my inner self. The study of this work started with two questions: Does this diary helps in any way to denounce ourselves and excavate our deep inner self? How sincerely and accurately could a vision or a memory be reproduced?
The pages of the diary are the actual paintings, the canvas, expressing my feelings, my moods and reaction to happenings, before and during the work on this project. I transfer all these through various colours, characters and symbolic objects, giving birth to an inside monologue illustrated in relation to my environment.
The project contains 7 paintings, a sequence of my prominent moods and feelings. These moods create only a sketch of the diary, being completed through it. They are but fractions of ideas that make an impression and then haunt me. I see them as either singular or repeating pictures, imaginary or real.
I use colours with a powerful symbolism, unveiling my inner state. Throughout the project’s works one will find elements and symbols that keep repeating, helping to understand the substance and “story” behind each work.
Gianluca Mattia
Illustrations
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Nov 102009
Gianluca Mattia is famous for his vivid illustrations of curvaceous alt delights. He was born in Bari, Italy. In 2003 he designed the pin up genre in the contemporary style. It’s available in 2006 its first “Surreal Pin up’s” trading card collection. Continue reading »
Koren Shadmi
Illustrations
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Oct 282009
Koren Shadmi grew up in Israel, where he published two books as a teenager and served as a graphic designer and illustrator in the Israeli Defense Forces. Shadmi then studied at the School of Visual Arts in New York City. Still living in New York, Shadmi works primarily as an illustrator, but has published multiple books in France.
Michael Bradley
Design, Illustrations, Poster
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Oct 062009
Toubab Krewe!!!
Giles Timms “Dead All Along”
Films, Illustrations
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Sep 262009
A short animated film by Giles Timms. The music video is set in a hand drawn pen and ink world inspired by Edward Gorey and animated in a cut-out style. Compositing and animation in After Effects.
Giles Timms is a freelance motion graphics artist. He is pursuing an MFA at UCLA’s Department of Theater, Film and Television.
Sparrow v. Swallow
Design, Illustrations
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Sep 062009
Sparrow vs Swallow is a creative studio that has created designs and illustrations for clients like the genius McSweeney’s Quarterly, the New York Times, Plan B, Current and Playboy. They are making colourful illustrations with a vibrant, vintage feel for a range of clients and for various uses. Continue reading »
Faiyaz Jafri
Illustrations
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Aug 262009
This image is from the “Natural Plastic” series by Faiyaz Jafri.
More of Jafri’s work can be found at bam-b.com
Taylor McKimens
Drawing, Illustrations
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Aug 222009
New York based artist Taylor McKimens creates installations that are like three-dimensional cartoons. As well as showing his two-dimensional works and painting directly onto the wall, he uses paper and cardboard to make three-dimensional alterations to the space, creating new walls, objects and even people. The world he creates is one in which everything is deteriorating: you find yourself surrounded by broken windows, leaks and puddles, moulding walls and the recurrent image of a sweaty fat man standing or sitting alone in his underpants. Continue reading »
Story Books
Drawing, Illustrations, Mixed Media
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Aug 132009
