The original painting was done by Walter o’Neal, based on a sculpture by the Shiflett Brothers.
The painting looked amazing, and a print of it is now available.
The print is 24×14, signed and numbered and limited to only 50 copies. People have been waiting for this one for a while, so I imagine it will go quite fast.
Head on over to the Shiflett Bros site to get it, the resin kit of Ol’Scratch is there too:
BlueFlip art now has prints from Brain Taylor (CandyKiller). I can’t say it any better than is written in the opening post of BlueFlip. “Brian creates bright, arresting images that resemble something Max Fleischer might have created had he been a fan of psychedelic mushrooms.”
There are 12 new prints all together, and when you buy one of them (or all of them) 10% of the sales go to Red Cross. I love the work of Brian Taylor, and I think it’s great that BlueFlip now has prints of his. BlueFlip is getting more and more amazing art.
Agnieszka Futa, otherwise known as Sawayaka is an artist out of Poland. She has an amazing style, with what looks like some really great influences.
You can see Japanese woodblock art & manga in her work, but at the same time there is that “underground” kind of look that alot of comic illustrators have. The look has this nice lo-fi quality to it, almost as if its been done on paper as opposed to digitally.
She has an amazing gallery, and is also taking commissions, so head on over and take a look at her work and maybe have a piece of art made as well.
Swayaka profile
Sawayaka Homepage
This specific piece is a the cover for Benjamin Cee’s comic “Plump Oyster” issue #3. I’m going to be buying up alot of underground comics and what not, and while searching for some I really got hooked on this cover.
Benjamin has a great style, very colorful and each piece is mad eye candy. Alot going on in these pieces, it’s pretty cool that he is able to fit so much into each piece, but they are still balanced well. He does comic strips, comics, paintings on canvas and so on. Benjamin is is one artists from a pretty hefty list of great artists from Australia.
Check out his profile and homepage, also if you can try to score some of his comics. He has a few new ones out as I’m told.
Plump Oyster homepage
Benjamin Cee profile
Splash Page Comic Art is putting together a book entitled “The Artists of Splash Page Comic Art”. It will feature all sorts of art by 53 artists that are shown on the Splash Page Comic Art webpage. It will be limited to 3000 copies, and will be available for sale at the San Diego Comic Con on on July 25th at booth 5101 & 5200.
For now though, you can head over to the auction area and snag some of the original works that were used for this book. The work shown above is from Ben Templesmith and is of his character Wormwood. A great character and this piece is very cool. Ben’s work tends to sell quickly and the value rises swiftly. Some of the other artists that you can get work from are: Charlie Adlard (Walking Dead), Lee Bermejo, Greg Land, Paolo Rivera and many others.
Head on over to this link to look at the auctions, and make sure if you hit the Comic Con to pick this book up.
Splash Page Comic Art auctions
‘Ben Templesmith has some very exclusive limited prints for sale. They are are of Felecia Pussnkop and Starbird Black from the artbook “Conluvio”
This run of prints is limited to only 5 prints each. So once these 5 are gone, that’s it. The prints are available from King’s Comics. Hea d on over to buy one of the prints, or just gawk at them. I’m personally waiting for a nice Wormwood print. I love that character of Ben’s and won’t mind waiting for one of those.
King’s Comics prints
Conluvio Art Book
Ben Templesmith homepage
The Crazy 4 Cult group show at the Gallery 1988 in Los Angeles opens today and it will run until August 10th.
The show will be hosted by Kevin Smith and Scott Mosier.
There will also be Crazy 4 Cult prints by Christopher Lee available, for only $15. The whole image is filled with cult references. It looks great and you really can’t beat $15.
Head on over to the site to see if they will have images, and pieces for sale:
Gallery 1988 LA
“7″ is from an artist out of South Korea known as greno89. It looks to me as its watercolor, and shows how well the artist can control the medium. I’ve been on a watercolor kick lately, and this piece not only fits that bill, but is very powerful.
The artist said this piece was made after he failed the entrance exam for a University. I can feel it just looking at this piece, I can think of all the time I have felt like this before. The color matches the mood perfect. The design int he background gives me the feeling this person is in a bathroom, or somewhere else that is just cold and sterile.
I really love this piece. This artist has an amazing gallery. After your done gawking at this piece, head on over and look at the rest of his gallery.
Submitted my Mark Weston:
“A few photos from the Copro Nason Next Gen show are posted here
It was a great show with a lot of sales throughout the night.”
It’s been a while since i’ve chosen a photo for art of the day. So here a piece by an artist from Chile known as Loganart.
I really dig the angle of the photo, and the color is amazing. he says that the photo was taken in the summer. The sky looks quite nutty in the background, looks like a summer day I’ll never see in the area I live in. I really like how old and dingy the photo looks, but there is still a good amount of contrast to it.
Check out the artists gallery here:
Loganart profile
This piece is a mixed media painting by an artist(s) from Spain that go(es) by the name Haunted Hearts.
The piece is mixed media, so it a nice variety of materials, looks like some sort of paper all curled up and most likely acrylic paint.
I love the look of this piece, the character is unique and amazing looking. The color scheme is wonderful, a nice burnt sienna/umber background that contrasts and pops the character out even more. Very smooth as well, the little death character looks very well rendered. This is the type of character that would make a great repeating character in a graphic novel, series of painting, or so on. I do hope they make this lil guy again.
Head on over to the artists homepage and profile to see even more work along the same vein:
HauntedHearts homepage
HauntedHearts profile
Coming up this Saturday is the “TrainWreck” show at the CoproNason Gallery. The show will feature work by Paul Chatem and Nathan Fox. It opens the 14th at 8pm and then runs until August 4th.
I have seen Paul Chatem’s work in person and he has a really great style, very narrative where the story will run from piece to piece.
At the same time the group show “Next Gen” will also start. It has the same running time, and will feature such artists as: Ron English, Luke Chueh, Chet Zar, Dave Burke, Naoto Hattori, Kris Lewis, Dan Quintana, Joe Vaux, Kukula, Travis Louie, Brandi Milne and many others. Looks like its gonna be a huge show.
Here’s the homepage of the two artists for the “TrainWreck” Show.
Paul Chatem
Nathan Fox
Also, you can take a look at a preview of what Paul Chatem will be showing there. Looks like some amazing pieces, his work is getting more and more amazing every show.
Paul Chatem, “TrainWreck” preview
Mark Weston also has some pics of the show:
Mark Weston pics
