oil on wood 16″x24″

artist & website: Esao Andrews – http://www.esao.com/

artist & website: Banksy – http://www.banksy.co.uk

Acrylic on canvas – 24″ x 24″

artist & website: Robert Hardgrave – http://www.farmerbobsfarm.com/

Part programmer and part artist, Natzke manipulates his code to create his art.

artist & website: Erik Natzke – http://jot.eriknatzke.com/

Robotic scultputures that interact with people, each other and their surrounding environment.

artist & website: Jason Van Anden – http://www.smileproject.com/neil_iona/

short video documentary about Neil and Iona

Part of a series where Chris is looking at problems in the U.S. where he assigns images to some data – 106,000 aluminum cans (thirty seconds of can consumption), etc. Based on a painting by Van Gogh, this image depicts 200,000 packs of cigarettes, equal to the number of Americans who die from cigarette smoking every six months.

artist & website: Chris Jordan – http://www.chrisjordan.com/

A collection of Leonard da Vinci’s drawings are available for download at a fairly decent resolution.  The drawings are available on drawingsofleonardo.org/ in .zip format for Windows users and .tar for Linux and Mac users.  Its wonderful to see the drawings of such a master freely available for download.

Kurt does new pop, lowbrow and anime inspired works and works in Acrylic, gouache and digital media. Kurt also uses many recycled materials.

artist & website: Kurt Kohl – http://s205.photobucket.com/albums/bb48/khurit/

Now every artist loves to create and in doing so can accumulate a collection of pieces that he or she may want to unload. Now, I do not want get into the whole “art for art sake” vs “marketing your work to make a living” argument. This bit of advice is for those interested in selling their work, prints, etc. The rest of you please feel free to roll your eyes at me and scroll to the next post.

ETSY is an online store for artists and crafts people and features some really nice tools that allow sellers to create and manage a marketplace online. They do take a cut of the seller’s listings and sales, but the features that ETSY offers are well worth it, unless you are a high end or high volume seller.

One of the features that I enjoy is the geolocator. This tool allows buyers to search for products by location, allowing them to support their local art community online. ETSY has its fair share of junk, but it does feature some really nice work. So, if you are looking for a nice tool to sell your work online with, this may be your answer.