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  • aotd: “Ballet Sufi”

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    Today’s piece is from an Australian artist named Ekrem. It looks like he mainly does illustration and graphic design.

    I’ve been on a roll with the watercolor work lately, I love the idea that there is some exciting work out there with this medium. The layout is great, Stella Im Hultberg uses this center composition often, and I really think it helps to draw the eye better. The colors are great, and I like how there seems to be three separate textures, ink outlines, the rendered figure and the nice billowy smoke in the back. The figure is the most captivating part for me. I love the pose, the torsion and the foreshortening really give this character so much energy.

    Make sure you check out the rest of this artists gallery.

    Ekrem’s Homepage

  • Audrey Kawasaki & print inflation

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    A few weeks ago in an SFWeekly article, I featured a print by Audrey Kawasaki. It was well know that this print was going to sell out in minutes. The last one did. Now I know that many of the people who buy these prints don’t buy them to collect, or place on their walls. They buy them to sell and make profit.

    Many artists try their hardest to stop this. Audrey did this as well, you had to really work for this print, but unfortunately some of people who just resell the work still got their hands on some. There is no real way to stop this, it’s a side effect of popularity really. He work is that coveted right now that this is bound to happen. So the real fans get the shaft. They miss out on a great print, that was fairly cheap, only to browse ebay and see the same print being sold for $500 on up.

    The only thing you can do, is to not buy these resells, of course this means your out of a print. I just see no point in encouraging this to happen, and buy a print that has jumped 500% in price in the matter of a few days.

  • Michael Hussar on L.A. Ink

    Portrait of Hans Memling
    I don’t watch very much tv, but I will say I like L.A. Ink. It must be the art. I love tattoos, and since I can’t afford more right now, I can live vicariously through others.

    The show that just happened had a guy come in to the shop, and get a tattoo of Michael Hussar’s painting, “Portrait of Hans Memling”(shown). Such an amazing piece it is, all of Hussar’s work is. Then Michael Hussar comes into the shop, shows the original painting and approves the tattoo, and it did look great. I think the part of the show that made me laugh, was when the tattoo artist Corey said “yeh I just need to find some time” & “that would be cool”, when he was approached on painting with Michael Hussar. If I was asked, I’d run from my house to his, 500+ miles.

    Corey did end up painting with Michael Hussar, and it was so great to see Michael paint, even if it was only for 20 seconds. I think I learned more in that 20 seconds, than in the last two semesters of painting classes. I think that Michael Hussar was supposed to have a dvd coming out, that would show his whole painting process. Kind of like a tutorial, but I haven’t heard much about it for a while.

    L.A. Ink
    Michael Hussar Homepage

  • 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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