Creep Machine Magazine – Contemporary Art & Culture

Author: Creep

  • aotd: “Failing Sun”

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    This piece if from a Norwegian artist, I haven’t shown art from that part of the world yet. It from an artist known as JOFX, and was a birthday present for a friend. What great present, I think I got a shirt for my birthday.

    I love how energetic this painting looks, like the brush strokes were put on with confidence. The white highlights really this piece to glow, it kind of looks to me that the figure is out in the snow. This is one image that you really have to see close up, so make sure that you click the thumbnail to see the larger version.

    JOFX Profile

  • Fawn Fruits, formerly known as Daniel Hyun Lim

    From Andrew Michael Ford Gallery:
    “Artist Fawn Fruits (aka Daniel Hyun Lim) has a new name, a new attitude and a body of exciting new artwork! Available for the first time are many of the original pencil & charcoal drawings for some of Fawn Fruits most popular digitally colored prints. These original drawings prove the amazing ability of Fawn Fruits and make us all jealous of someone who is this good on and OFF the computer. Fawn Fruits is leading a new group of young artists who have grown up around both traditional and new media tools, making them that much more adaptable and resourceful when making their artwork.

    With Fawn Fruits, there is an important idea or purpose behind everything being made. We will let Fawn Fruits explain it to you:
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  • aotd: “but wolfman”

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    This piece is from an artist out of Canada, Stefan Thompson.

    I’m not sure what the painting is made of, he has a pretty in depth article on his site about non-toxic Earthpaints, and this very well may be made of those paints. The colors on the figures are just great, and the expressions on those animals really makes this piece an eye catcher. I really dig his style of drawing.

    Make sure you head over to his site to see the rest of his work, and read the article he has on Earthpaints while your at it, it’s a great read.

    Stefan Thompson

  • “Mysterium Fidei” by Daniel Martin Diaz


    Daniel Martin Diaz has a new book out entitled “Mysterium Fidei”. It’s 128 full color pages of prints, drawings and paintings highlighting his career.

    There are two versions. The standard cloth hardback book, and the one shown above that comes with a slipcase, cloth clamshell with signed etching all limited to 100.
    This looks like it could be a killer addition to an art library.

    Here’s the release: Daniel Martin Diaz “Mysterium Fidei”

  • Best ways to show your art on the web (Revised 2013)

    Best ways to show your art on the web (Revised 2013)

    This article is inspired by an article over at ‘Lines and Colors’ called: “How Not to Display Your Artwork on the Web”. It’s a great article, quite sarcastic but there are some great tips there. In the many years that I have been running the Creep Machine, looking for featured artists, images for art of the day & prints and originals for sale, I have seen some amazing web sites and some really bad ones. So I decided to write down some tips, to make sure that your art gets seen. (Last Edited Jan 2013)

    Of course this whole article is filled with my opinions, but as someone who spends hours a day looking at art as a fan and webmaster, I have collected some great tips and tricks to make showing and selling your work online an enjoyable process. So let’s get started.
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  • David Hochbaum @ Corey Helford Gallery, Sept 15th


    David Hochbaum, a seriously cool mixed media artist will have a solo show at the Corey Helford Gallery in Culver City this Saturday, September 15th. This new show will “feature a sculpture installation created from hundreds of ladders and faux birds, completing the theme of nomadic displacement.” Sounds great, I can’t wait to see the new works.

    I recently got into this artist and have really been drawn in by his style, two of my favorite forms of art, photography and painting, and he mixes them so well. I would really love to know how he gets the photos to set into the paint and mix in so seamlessly. I’ve seen mixed media before where the photo looks clearly “slapped” in, whereas his looks like it supposed to be there. Yet again, more work I need to see in person.

    David Hochbaum
    Corey Helford Gallery

  • Art shows this weekend

    There are some really killer art shows opening up this weekend, here is just a little taste of what will be going on. Make sure to check out the pages of the galleries as well, I’m sure most of them will be adding pics of the shows.

    “Strange Brew” group show of Canadian artists, such as the amazing Ben Tour. BLVD Gallery in Seattle, WA.

    “So Many Selves..” group show, featuring many artists like Josh Taylor and Ken Garduno @ Carmichael Gallery in West Hollywood, CA.

    “Global Storming” featuring Dennis Hayes IV, Erik Able and 2h. The show is @ the Thinkspace Gallery, pics are now online.

    Shepard Fairey’s show “One Man Army” will have it’s reception on the 14th and the 15th at the Toyroom Gallery in Sacramento.

    I’ll be heading over to the second reception on the Shepard Fairey, and this time I’m coming back with photos to open up the gallery area in the site.

  • Scott Campbell’s Showdowns Series 2, Crazy4Cult prints

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    If you missed on the first series of Scott Campbell’s “Showdowns” prints, you won’t want to miss Series 2. This next series has scenes from 2001, Predator, The Exorcist, Fistfull of Dollars & the Goonies. Sloth even has a little Baby Ruth, how cool is that?

    You can get this print directly from the Crazy4Cult page, they will go on sale September 20th, and I’m sure they won’t last long. Here’s the info:

    Each set has 5 prints, the sets are limited to 35. Each print is hand-signed and numbered, 4 3/4 x 4 3/4 inches each. These are Giclee prints on archival paper, and are only $60 for the whole set. Here’s a close-up of the Sloth print, so you can see how amazing these prints are: Goonies close-up

    Remember, they go on sale September 20th at Crazy4cult