Creep Machine Magazine – Contemporary Art & Culture

Author: Creep

  • The Brush Project auction has started!


    The Brush Project is an auction of actual paintbrushes that artists have used. The auctions will go to help art education.

    The auctions are going on right now. There are so many great artists involved in this, this is a good chance to help a good cause and score a great collectible from your favorite artist. Mark Ryden, Shag, Lesley Reppeteaux, Chris Mars, Anthony Ausgang, Dan May, Lori Earley and many others. The above brush example is from Glenn Barr.

    I’m pretty sure this is going to work out exactly like the Paint by Numbers auction went, very fast. So you might want to get in on this now as it has just started.

    Brush Project Auction
    The Brush Project

  • Crazy4Cult show, pics and prints

    Pics from the Crazy4Cult show that is going on at the Gallery 1988 in LA are now up. You can head over and see all the work that was at the show. Alot of it is still available to buy. Available work and pics

    There are some really amazing pieces at the show, it’s great to see how these artists use the inspiration from these cult movies and icons. Some of my favorites are: Greg Simkins “Ed’s Losing”, Scott Campbell’s “The Great Showdowns” pieces are great, Brendan Danielsson’s “Barbarella”, Blinky’s “Shaun of the Dead”, Both Lesley Reppeteaux pieces, Shepard Fairey’s “Obey Lives” (this movie rules), Stella Im Hultberg’s “The Big Tourist”, Mark Bodnar “The Santa Slide”, Ekundayo “Officer Managain”. Well, that’s a big enough list. there are so many amazing pieces there.

    A print by Christopher Lee is also available right now for $15. It a poster for the show basically, with a bunch of icons thrown in.
    You can get it here: Crazy4Cult Print

    Also, if you head over to the Crazy4Cult Homepage they will be releasing prints from various works that were in the show. As I write this the piece from Greg Simkins is ready to be bought.

  • Ol’Scratch print


    The original painting was done by Walter o’Neal, based on a sculpture by the Shiflett Brothers.
    The painting looked amazing, and a print of it is now available.

    The print is 24×14, signed and numbered and limited to only 50 copies. People have been waiting for this one for a while, so I imagine it will go quite fast.

    Head on over to the Shiflett Bros site to get it, the resin kit of Ol’Scratch is there too:

    Shiflett Bros store

  • CandyKiller at BlueFlip


    BlueFlip art now has prints from Brain Taylor (CandyKiller). I can’t say it any better than is written in the opening post of BlueFlip. “Brian creates bright, arresting images that resemble something Max Fleischer might have created had he been a fan of psychedelic mushrooms.”

    There are 12 new prints all together, and when you buy one of them (or all of them) 10% of the sales go to Red Cross. I love the work of Brian Taylor, and I think it’s great that BlueFlip now has prints of his. BlueFlip is getting more and more amazing art.

    BlueFlip Art

  • aotd: “At Least I Have Each Other” by Sawakaya

    aotd: “At Least I Have Each Other” by Sawakaya

    Agnieszka Futa, otherwise known as Sawayaka, is an artist out of Poland. Not only does he have an amazing style, but some inspiring influences.

    You can see Japanese woodblock art & manga in her work, but at the same time there is that “underground” kind of look that a fair amount 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.

    Head on over and take a look at the rest of her work.
    Deviantart Swayaka profile

    At_least_I_have_each_other_by_sawayaka

  • aotd: “Plump Oyster 3”

    Oyster_ze_Plumpe_3_by_BenjaminCee.jpg
    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

  • Splash Page Comic Arts auction


    Splash Page Comic Art is putting together a book entitled “The Artists of Splash Page Comic Art”. It will feature all sorts of art by 53 artists that are shown on the Splash Page Comic Art webpage. It will be limited to 3000 copies, and will be available for sale at the San Diego Comic Con on on July 25th at booth 5101 & 5200.

    For now though, you can head over to the auction area and snag some of the original works that were used for this book. The work shown above is from Ben Templesmith and is of his character Wormwood. A great character and this piece is very cool. Ben’s work tends to sell quickly and the value rises swiftly. Some of the other artists that you can get work from are: Charlie Adlard (Walking Dead), Lee Bermejo, Greg Land, Paolo Rivera and many others.

    Head on over to this link to look at the auctions, and make sure if you hit the Comic Con to pick this book up.
    Splash Page Comic Art auctions

  • Ben Templesmith prints, very limited


    ‘Ben Templesmith has some very exclusive limited prints for sale. They are are of Felecia Pussnkop and Starbird Black from the artbook “Conluvio”

    This run of prints is limited to only 5 prints each. So once these 5 are gone, that’s it. The prints are available from King’s Comics. Hea d on over to buy one of the prints, or just gawk at them. I’m personally waiting for a nice Wormwood print. I love that character of Ben’s and won’t mind waiting for one of those.

    King’s Comics prints
    Conluvio Art Book
    Ben Templesmith homepage