Category: prints/originals

I Want Your Skull Issue Fanzine. Issue Three.

44 pages. Full color cover. Offset printed. Limited to 300 pieces.

Available only at iwantyourskull.com!

-Full color covers with artwork by Justin “Angryblue” Kamerer.
-Each copy is hand-numbered out of 300 pieces.
-Interviews with David “DWitt” Witt, Doktor A and Justin “Angryblue” Kamerer.
-The zine also features artwork from 21 of today’s best artists: Shawn Hebrank, Kevin Mcnutt, Jerry Vigil, J. Statts, Tyler Kline, Jeff Finley, Mike Thompson, Eric Talbot, David Tevenal, Alex Barrera, Miss Pinny, Shaun Friend, Punchgut, The Pit, Scott Benson, R.M. Hanson, Nate Nolting, Ryan August, Marald Van Haasteren, Ed Syder, and Jim Altieri.
-This issue also includes a 7″ x 7″, one-color serigraph print on quality French cardstock of the cover artwork by Angryblue.
-A full color greeting card with envelope is also included. It features artwork by Shawn Hebrank.
-Finally, the extra contents come sealed in a poly bag and the whole thing is packaged in an envelope decorated with a 4″ x 6″ silver foil sticker with artwork by JJ Rudisill.

This painting was on display at the JoyEngine gallery in Boulder, Co. It was stolen on the weekend of the 15th/16th of September.
The painting was kindly displayed at the gallery by artist Shannon Bonatakis, it wasn’t even for sale, it was being shared with the public. The gallery isn’t interested in why it was taken, they just want it back, there is even a reward. It can also be left anonymously, by the front door.

I can’t understand how someone could love a work that someone made so much, as to steal it. If you love the work, doesn’t that mean you respect the artist? So you show them this by stealing their work? I mean there are alot of paintings I would love to own, and like many I can’t afford them, so what do I do to show my respect and appreciation to these artists?

I start the Creep Machine. Show someone you love their work, show everyone the work you love. Just don’t steal it.

JoyEngine Gallery
Shannon Bonatakis Homepage

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.

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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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”

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

Jeff Soto’s latest solo show at the Jonathan Levine gallery is now online, for you viewing pleasure.

There is quite a large amount of pieces, acrylic, some ink on paper, and even a wall installation.
The theme of this show, as written on the gallery page, just to sum up “explores his predominant fears and anxieties over his daughter’s future, the civil war in Iraq, and the United States policies on environmental conservation”. I can see this in some of the images, especially the ones that have some murky staining in the background. It kind of pollutes the landscapes that he paints in the, making the scene far more sinister. A great example of this is “Snake Trap” & “Fire”. They look so murky, and polluted, that umber he must be using really makes the whole scene look kind of the skyline where I live.

But there is positivity, such as in the piece “We Can Chang Everything”. We are still given the murky effects at the top, but as you can see hands holding a rainbow and a spade. It’s quite simple to fix all that we have done, we just have to get started.

Wonderful show, and yet another one that I really wish I could see in person. The images on the site are nice and big, but it still would be great to see the pieces close up.

Jeff Soto, Storm Clouds

The original artwork from the new Topps Hollywood Zombies card set is now being auctioned off. There is a pretty big amount of work to be sold, and they all seem to be framed as well.

While I’m not super hip into these cards, there is some cool work. Especially from John Cebollero (work shown above). I think he has the coolest style. I would rather be scoring some original Garbage Pail Kids art, but these are at least cool to look at.

Head on over and see what’s being sold:
Hollywood Zombies art sale