An illustrator out of Oslo, Norway, Esra Roise has a great style and a unique way of looking at things. Most of her works seem to be made with pencil and watercolor. I really like the contrast created by the pencil and bright colors and texture created with the paints. Esra has already created some works for publications such as Vice magazine, and is open for more. Head on over and take a look at all the work that is offered.
Brandon Sopinsky, an artist out of Los Angeles that is quite hard to find sometimes, has opened an Etsy shop. This new shop was opened back in October and is now stocked up with some great original paintings. There is some older works for available as well, along with some of his newer work. Head on over and check out all that he has to offer.
Brett Despotovich is an artist out of Canada, and also runs the Toronto Dr. Sketchy’s. Brett recently informed me of a new series of works that he has just finished entitled “Helpmeat”. Each piece is charcoal and conte on mylar, 8.5″ x 11″, and there are 15 in total. With the background as black as it is, and the figures rendered in monotone, it is really helps that the poses are as dynamic as they are. Some figures also have a mix of muscle and bone showing through, it’s a great effect and really adds to the works. You can find all the works in the gallery, and it looks like there is a calendar with the images available as well.
Check it out here: Brett Despotovich Homepage
I hope that everyone had a great holiday. I will be working on a slight redesign of the site in the next few weeks. Nothing major, just a new look. Just before Christmas Tran Nguyen added some prints and original works for sale over at her blog. There are two prints “Our Flutter-some Ordeal” which is 12.5″x17″ signed/numbered in an edition of 50, and “For the Lost and Unfound” 13″x17.5″ signed/numbered also in an edition of 50. Both prints are $100 (+ shipping). The original works are available via Thinkspace Gallery, so if your interested make sure you get in touch with them.
Get the prints here: Tran Nguyen Shop
On Thursday December 17th, screenwriter Dan O’Bannon passed away after a 30 year battle with Crohn’s disease. Dan is known for writing such movies as Alien, Aliens, Dark Star, Lifeforce, Invaders from Mars and my favorite Return of the Living Dead, which he not only wrote but directed. I have watched his movies a hundred times over, and if your like me they were influential in your love of horror as well as zombies. Oh and what young guy can forget the cemetery scene with Trash played by Linnea Quigley? So here is a few works of art inspired by some of the movies Dan gave us. If you know more, please let us know in the comments.
Tarman by Willian Stout @ Gallery Nucleus
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A Paper Tiger has added a new print to the shop. “Befriend” is 12″ x 15.25″, signed and numbered in an edition of 25 for $100. The site is also having a holiday sale, so all print from now until December 25th are 15% off. It a good time to get some prints from the shop for a cheaper price, and before they sell out.
Get em here: Andrew Hem @ A Paper Tiger
Giant Robot has just released a new print by James Jean. “Rickshaw” is 44″ x 28″, signed and numbered in an edition of 50 for $500. The original the print is based on is currently on view at the Japanese American National Museum.
Get it here: Giant Robot Store
I always enjoy any new work that Dave MacDowell posts. He has such a great style; not only with painting skill but ideas as well. He had a painting on view at the “MultiUniversal” show at Art Basel this past December 3rd, that I had to share. Entitled “Pacino” this painting is 18″ x 14″ and acrylic on canvas. The best part is that the painting style is impasto, not something you see with his work. He is usually very controlled with the painting, but this energetic brushy style is amazing. It still retains the beautiful colors he gets in each of his painting, and the way that he represents the figure, there is just all those brushy little marks that really make this painting pop! I really hope we see some more works like this in the future. Click on the image to see a bigger version, necessary to see all that texture.
Check out more @ his site: MacDowellstudio.com
