J.R. Goldberg has been busy making some new original paintings for a show opening this weekend in Ottawa, Ontario. The show is called “Seduction of the Idiots” and as stated on the site is “what can happen when comic and cartoon addiction is not dealt with early enough”. J.R. made four original paintings for the show, each one is acrylic on 6″x6″ wood panels. The collection is entitled “The Bloodies” and includes “Mashy” the Mallet, “Jabby” the Bottle, “Choppy” the Cleaver, and “Poppy” the Gun.” It looks as though these might also make it into screen-print form if there is enough demand. So head over to JR’s site and tell her you want a set of these as prints.

JR Goldberg

Sarah Joncas recently posted a couple of commission works she has finished and I thought I would share them here. The first one is entitled “Cherry Blossom Girl”, is 18″ x 24″ and as you can see has an intense color palette. The next one is entitled “The Bride” and comes in at 16″ x 20″. I really wish I was the one that commissioned this painting, its a great take on such a classic horror movie character.

Head on over to her homepage to see the rest of her work: Sarahjoncas.com

The Kelvingrove Museum of Glasgow had an installation up by artist Sophie Cave that was too good not to share. I’m not exactly sure when the exhibition was up, and for how long, but the images of the 50 Floating Heads she installed is making its rounds throughout the net. The artist installed 50 floating heads, each one with an expression frozen, something that apparently was freaking out some of the patrons of the museum. Reminds me a bot of the busts that were created by Franz Xavier Messerschmidt (featured).

The art collective known as Faile recently went to Lisboa, Portugal for their Temple Project, which is a giant sculptural installation that has been 2 years in the making. This is an amazing project. The classical design fits in seamlessly with the surrounding city, and shows that contemporary artists can make some truly inspiring works. Dflektor.com and Stick2Target, the portuguese street art site, both have a huge amount of photos showing every angle of this temple.

Temple Project @ Dflektor
Temple Project @ Stick2Target

John Cebollero will have three new paintings in the upcoming New Breed 2 exhibition coming to the Last Rites Gallery this coming August 7th. The last show had some really amazing artwork, and I am looking forward to seeing what this year brings. John works in acrylics and inks, and as seen in one of the paintings he will have in the show below, the colors are intense. This painting is entitled “Only Women Bleed”, possibly inspired by the Alice Cooper song of the same name? The other two paintings he will have in the show will not feature his signature, stylized portraits, but will be some of the darker work that he has been creating lately.

Johncebollero.com

Michael Shapcott has been super busy lately, and with this poor economy thats a good thing. He found some time to show some of the latest drawings he has created over on his new snazzy website. Michael’s pencil work has always been a part of his paintings, but being able to see just drawings with no added color is very cool. He is deciding on whether or not to turn these into paintings, I hope he does.

Check out his site here: Michael Shapcott Blog

Joshua Clay has said he was always anti-digital, and has stuck to using traditional mediums for his work. He recently entered a contest to make a propaganda poster for the new Starcraft 2 game, and turned his pencil sketch into a digital piece. If this truly is his first digital work, I can’t wait to see what it will look like when he really gets into the medium. To see the full digitally colored poster, and to even vote for the piece and show Joshua how much his work rules, head on over to his site.

Joshuaclayart.com

R.S. Connett has just added a new painting to his site entitled “War Machine II”, (or “Machine Gun Face”). This new character will be used for Connett’s new series, “Transmutationists”, but might change a little bit. The idea of this painting is man becoming machine, and even though that is not an entirely new idea, I like the take that Connett has in this piece. I love the contrast of that biomechanical figure in the foreground, and those amazing apocalyptic skies he paints so well. This painting is also available, if you head over to the link you can check it out.

“Machine Gun Face” by R.S. Connett

Dan Harding has been cranking out some really amazing paintings lately. I am always happy to see new work. His imagination is limitless, and his style and execution always surprises. I was thinking about this a few nights ago; Rick Baker and Dick Smith were responsible for making me want to pursue a career in special effects, something I never did finish. If Dan Harding had been creating these works way back then, I would have been hooked on painting at a far younger age. The piece shown below is called “Sunburn”, and is 9″ x 12″. I love the pose and expression this character has, and you’ll be seeing this face soon with a new project that I am working on.

In the meantime, head on over to Dan;s homepage and follow him on Facebook to see new work and get alerted about new shows.
DanHardingArt.com | Dan Harding Facebook

I haven’t posted an Art of the Day image for a while as I have been finishing up school, but I am now nearing the end and what to get this section going again. So todays painting is from Peter C Matthews, an artist out of South Africa. Most of his work is figural in a variety of mediums, with some landscapes and wildlife as well. “Girl in the Window” is based off a photo he found on the internet, and recreated in oil. The image is very mysterious and ghostly, and in a way has a tenebrous style to it. I would love to see Matthews do a whole series of portraits in this style.

For more work check out: Petermatthews.net