Amazing illustrations by Igor Oleinikov for the children’s mag Tramvai. Feast your eyes on the awesomeness.
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Posts Tagged: paint
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Jul 10
The girl who wears her thoughts on her head.
Yoko Furusho’s artwork is the sum of several quiet contradictions. It’s intimate enough to be satisfyingly voyeuristic, surreal enough to be creepishly detached, and girly enough for the big boys to feel at ease. She presented her work a few weeks ago at Alien/ation, a group show organized by Hyphen Magazine and Paper Hat Productions.
6
Jul 10
Not from concentrate.
I pride myself on having awesome friends, and I have this particularly heroic friend named Shannon. I think the photo speaks for itself. 100% goodness, snapped and edited by myself (sorry, I needed to brag).
Shannon is an artiste slash model currently residing in Brooklyn, New York. She’s modeled for Caliber 59 and Maximilian Fur Salon. In addition to being really really ridiculously good-looking, she’s got a fierce body of work. She also rescues puppies in her off time. Check out her blog for more.
26
Mar 10
At the library, browsing.
How can I not really really like this?
Sophie Blackall captures the every day missed connection through her poignant, whimsical illustrations.
From her blog:
Messages in bottles, smoke signals, letters written in the sand; the modern equivalents are the funny, sad, beautiful, hopeful, hopeless, poetic posts on Missed Connections websites. Every day hundreds of strangers reach out to other strangers on the strength of a glance, a smile or a blue hat. Their messages have the lifespan of a butterfly. I’m trying to pin a few of them down.
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Via Brain Pickings
23
Feb 10
Brain implosion
I’m really liking this guy’s artwork. Lawrence Yang is a web geek by day, artist by night. He paints intricate, colorful pieces that mesh nature and technology, watercolor and ink, plus a whole lot of other stuff that simple words cannot articulate!
I also like his approach toward balancing work and art. He makes it sound so simple and enjoyable… as art (and work) ought to be.
A lot of the reason that I paint comes out of what I do during the day. Information architecture is this really cerebral, abstract thing so you have to think about information and how to organize and structure it for a website. I really enjoy it a lot but it really makes my head kind of implode. So usually by the time I get home my brain’s fried and I just need to relax so I’ll just sit down and paint the demons out of my head. That’s a lot of my inspiration.
What I do during the day really balances out what I do at night. I think I need to have both structure and chaos so the art is the chaos and the structure is my job and they sort of balance me out into being a normal functioning person. I think too much of one or the other would make me insane.
For more, check out his bloggy and look out for a group show coming up in March at Giant Robot SF.
