16″ x 12″ - Acrylics and markers.

Loving this painting!  I love style and texture and I imagine that my hate for McDonald’s makes me like it even more.  Checkout Matt’s Deviant Art Gallery for more great work.

artist & website: Matt Robinson - http://mattrobinson.deviantart.com

I saw this featured on drawn and had to feature it as well.  Martin Wilson takes these photos in sequence with a 35mm camera and scans the strips to be pieced together on the computer.

artist & website: Martin Wilson - http://www.martinwilson.net

Felted wool - 6.5″ x 7″ x 5.25″

Stephanie create a variety of anotomical studies of Teddy Bears, reverse engineering found bears to created these felted skulls.

The teddy bear is an idea: a docile, cute, friendly invention far removed from the wild animal that inspired it. I create teddy bear anatomical specimens with a pretense of realness to emphasize the artifice of a familiar but unconsidered subject.

Make sure you checkout her site for more of these wonderful sculptures.  If you enjoy these you will also enjoy the Animatus H, D, L.

artist & website: Stephaine Metz - http://www.stephaniemetz.com/

Chalk and, well poop.

I love how Tilllassmann’s cartoons, “Chalkies,” interact with the real world around them.  It is great that he can put these anywhere and people in the community get to see new works constantly.  There is also something refreshing about the simplicity of the execution, especially since everything in our modern world has become so complex.

artist & website: Tilllassmann - Flickr Account

140 x 190cm - Mixed media on wood found on streets and beaches in Dublin, Belfast, Kerry and London

Here is another piece from asbestos that I featured last year.  Make sure you checkout asbestos’ site and asbestos’ Flickr account for more.

artist & website: asbestos - http://www.theartofasbestos.com/

Berseth creates the base structure for these wonderful sculptures and his bees finish it by adding the rich honeycomb texture.  According to BoingBoing,

Berseth’s armatures each go into a closed box in the spring, and then the respective colonies take over, filling out his templates with wax cells, then stuffing them with honey. “The last two seasons, I’ve been working with a beekeeper whose name is Jim Bobb,” he says, explaining where he turns for expertise. “He has a graduate degree in mathematics from Berkeley–he’s a minor beekeeping celebrity.”

artist & website: Hilary Berseth -  http://www.elevenrivington.com/artists/BERSETH/artistpg_berseth.html

Here is a great animated short by Louis Clichy.  I found the short on Drawn and had to put it up on the site.  This piece has a  simple look that I love and connect with. The complex camera angles and movement in the short are convincing and engaging.

artist & website: Louis Clichy - http://www.cube-creative.fr/index.php?t=s&sv=Louis+Clichy

The Aquarium Phone Booth is the brain child of Benoit Deseille and Benedetto Bufalino for the Lyon Light Festival in Lyon, France.

artist & website: Benoit Deseille - benoitdeseille.com and Benedetto Bufalino - benedetto.new.fr

I found this video to be very compelling especially with all of the advances being made in the fields of robotics. Andrew tells a story of a robot longing for something it can’t grasp.

acrylic on wood panel

I am a big fan of Jeff Soto and love seeing his characters interacting with one another in his paintings.  So when I got his email about his new show I was excited to see some new work.  His show will be opening Thursday night, May 14 at StolenSpace Gallery in London.

artist & website: Jeff Soto - http://www.jeffsoto.com