Central Illustration is having a special offer during “Love Month”. All February when you buy any print from the shop you get a free 2009 Superhero Calendar (while stocks last). There are some really killer prints in the shop from artists like Tom Bagshaw, Richard Wilkinson, Kristian Olson and Andrew Foster as seen in the ad.
At the Alternative Press Expo just this last year, Alex Pardee had some small prints for sale of “The Real Batman”. The prints sold out pretty fast. It looks like Zerofriends.com has added a larger version of the print. This new print is 17″ x 22″ Printed with Archival Inks on Acid Free Velvet Cotton Rag, signed and numbered in an edition of 200.
I have the smaller one and it looks amazing, there is no doubt this larger one looks just as good if not better.
Thanks to omgposters.com for the tip.
The artist known as Apricot Mantle has just finished a new piece that he was working on. He also created a process page so you can see the whole journey it took to make this new drawing. This new drawing is 18″ x 24″ prismacolor on board and was made to commemorate the loss of a friends bike.
It’s a great looking piece, much like the Lady Enmity piece of his I showed a while back, this one looks like its glowing. He really knows how to use those prismacolors.
Head on over to check out his gallery as well as the newly update process page.
Todays art of the day is from DC artist Ben Tolman. He received his BFA from the Corcoran College of Art in 2005. His gallery is filled with amazing ink drawings. Each one of them is huge and filled with endless detail. His homepage has a zoom feature for his gallery, and its a good thing too. You cna get right in there and see the technique he has with ink as well as what each drawing holds.
Jonathan Bergeron, otherwise known as “Johnny Crap” has an original painting for sale over on the Gigposters.com classifieds. It’s a killer little painting so I thought I would share it. The painting is oil on wood 8″ x 8″. The painting is signed by the artist in the right hand corner. The streaks you see is the varnish a cameras amazing ability to bring it out in any painting.
I really like the idea of small paintings. While it’s great to have huge paintings, smaller works can really help fill in areas of your walls and cram as much art as you can into your house.
Matt Dangler has just redesigned his website, something that a lot of artists seem to be doing right now but it is the New Year. The new is a lot cleaner looking, and gives you the ability to really zoom in on his paintings so you can really see all the intricacies that go into each one.
Along with the new site he also added a new print to the shop. This print is based off of his “Godseed” drawing that he had at the Paper Pushers show at the Gallery 1988 in San Francisco. The print is 6″ x 10″ on Epson Fine Velvet Art paper, signed and numbered in an edition of 30. The print is $60 and comes shipped flat in a cardboard mailer.
Opening tonight, January 23rd at The Alternative Cafe in Seaside is a show curated by Outeredgestudio.com. The show is all signed and limited, rare and sold out editions. So any prints that you have may have missed by such artists as Banksy, Shawn Barber, David Choe, Shepard Fairey and more.
All the prints are framed and ready to go, and if you look at them on the site you will see the frame each piece is in.
Thealternativecafe.com
In my last article for SFWeekly.com, I featured a print on wood by Charlie Owens. The print seems have sold, but if you head over to Charlie’s Etsy shop you can see that he added a screen print of the same image. The print is 10″ x 17″ 3-color screen print on cream paper. Each print is signed and numbered in an edition of 30. The back of the print is also stamped with the “Owens Circle C logo”.
Charlie also has some buttons, and originals in his shop. Head on over and check it out. Charlie Owens Etsy
