I had to put this as today’s piece. Not only because it’s simply amazing, but it’s of a gorilla, riding a boneshaker (hiwheel) bike. This piece is from Linda Herzog, and is oil 30×20.

The gorilla looks so amazing, and the background is perfect for the scene. The moth on the bottom right is quite a nice touch. I can’t tell if it’s supposed to be int he scene, or on the canvas, breaking the illusion that this is a painting much like some of the Italian Masters did with a bottle, or some other object to show that this is just a painting. Either way, it’s brilliant.
If you like this piece, make sure you head over to the artists site and look at all of her work. She is very talented, especially knowing she has no formal training.

Linda Herzog Profile

It’s been a bit since I’ve been able to post another art of the day. There is just so much great art out there, and I need to find the time to find it all.

This piece is a painter, well I don’t know much about her really, not much written in her Profile. She goes by “hardcoremiike”. The main point is that this painting is quite amazing. It’s based off of a fictional character from Stephen King’s Dark Tower series. The rendering on the face looks perfect, I have always felt that if your going to do realistic based face – as opposed to the more illustration like, cartoon like that is going on as well – I think people should really be able to paint the face as if it existed and took up space. This one cuts it very well, and the background is great, I love the colors.

Make sure you head over and check out the rest of the artist’s work:hardcoremiike

This piece is by Nykolai Aleksander, it’s oil on canvas.

The first thing that struck me, well was that I thought this was a photo, it wasn’t until I zoomed in and saw how it was painted. The lack of color is amazing, the whole painting has this glow to it, much like some of the “flemish” underpainting techniques i’ve seen. It gives the painting this feel like a nice beautiful, contrasty photograph. Very striking.

I think my favorite area has to be the hair, it looks as though it was just some quick strokes of the brush, but it’s done in a way that really gives the impression of slightly messy hair.

Check out the rest of this artists gallery:
Nykolai Aleksander Profile
Ad Memento (homepage)

This piece is by Sonny Liew, and artist out of Singapore who has worked for Marvel and has recently had a show at La Luz De Jesus gallery. He is also working on a mini-series for DC comics.

He has a really cool painting style, I like how many of his works are pretty dark in color. I dig this piece for the kid’s expression, and robots. I love work by Ashley Wood and some of the Robot work Phil Hale has done. It’s also very cool when the artists is unique, and Sonny’s work is unique.

Hopefully he’ll be doing more and more shows. I would like to see his work in person one day.
Sonny Liew homepage
Sonny Liew Profile

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

“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.

Greno89 profile

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

Today we have a vector piece from an artist out of Switzerland known as Limkis.

I chose this piece for the colors, nice bright reds really punch you in the eye, and of course because it’s a full vector piece. I think vector can look amazing when it is done well. It can be very artistic maybe I should say. The way Limkis works with the vector shapes, it’s like they are laid down like a brush would do. Very cool. Take a look at her whole gallery, she has this style consistently throughout all her pieces.

I love finding vector art that looks like the artist spent a considerable amount of time on the piece, as well as defining a style that is recognizable as their own.
Limkis profile

This piece is by Tomek Karelus from Warsaw. Its a digital piece, and from what the artist said it’s well over 100 layers! That’s pretty impressive.

I think what is most impressive and what really caught me about this piece is how much is looks like acrylic paint. Some nice dry brush style, like Amanda Visell does. Of course the colors and characters are top notch as well.

Head on over to the artists profile and take a look at all his amazing art.

Tomek Karelus profile

Todays piece if from Richard Pellegrino, he’s an illustrator and has an amazing portfolio.

It was hard to narrow down which piece of his I wanted to show, so I picked this for a few reasons. I really like the colors used in this piece, and I really like that the face is not visible at all. I also love the movie so it helped my decision even more.

Head on over to the artists homepage and see all of his work.
Richard Pellegrino Homepage

The piece above is from Małgorzata Maj, an artist from Poland known as Sarachmet. She is a digital artist, that takes the photos, manipulates them and also paints and draws on them. Giving her pieces a unique quality to them, one that allows you to instantly recognize her work, once you become a fan of it of course.

If you look through her gallery there are so many great pieces, I chose the one above because of the feel and color scheme. The image reminds me of a beautiful hand painted Daugerrotype, with a nice amount of contrast, nice rounded corners, and a signature that fits well with the overall image. The colors are the most intriguing to me, sepia with a nice splash of crimson. It has a nice aged look to it, but it’s so dynamic you know its recent.

I would love a print of this, a giclee print on wood panel with soft rounded corners. Head over to he profile to see her other works, she also adds descriptions to each of her works, background stories really.

Sarachmet profile