Sketches

Jim Bradshaw is a talented illustrator from New Jersey with a massive and beautiful collection of work.  Jim’s illustrations mix a vector cartoony style with grungy, dirty textures.

Amnesia - Oil and acrylic on canvas 240 x 200cm

In his latest work, Matthew Hindley explores themes of darkness with his rich oils and acrylics.  These paintings capture figures in a moment of strong emotion leaving the audience wondering what might happen next.

With the construction of my personal studio space nearing completion, I am looking for ways to sell art to fund adding new tools to my collection.  I am a metalsmithing guy and tools for my discipline do not come cheap.  In my search I have found many great sites and thought it would be cool to share some of these.  My search was focusing on marketplaces that allowed selling original artwork, but I also included some of the print specific sites that I found.

Today’s amazing illustrations are by artist Mel Kadel.

one could stand on its own

Ronald Kurniawan draws, paints and sculpts wild and imaginative scenes and characters.

Looking for a new sketchbook, I decided to venture out from the normal black hard cover acid free books that I usually buy.  I spent some time looking and reading about various sketchbooks and found many great choices.  I realize that there are many more options than I have listed here, so if you know of an awesome one that I missed, please let me know in the comments below.

While writing 22 Beautiful & Creative iPhone Apps I found many wonderful apps exploring different aspects of user interaction with art, imagery and sound. Experimental Art applications like these are not new, but user access to them and how they interact with them is.

First stage of a themed journal that will be created with the WAFA collective.

Jenkins is a mixed media artist that pumps out works of art like a machine.  The volume of wonderful work that comes from his hands is staggering.

Justin BUA paints the urban culture of NY, NY in vibrant color and beautiful distorted realism. The paintings are rich with detail and each one tells a unique story.