painting
I believe in process, spontaneity, and action. My style and interests are varied, as are the mediums I use. The medium foresees the style. The interest suggests the medium. My work combines formal academic painting and
drawing with a strong interest in graffiti, comics, graphics, and pattern.
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drawing
I am interested in a compositional aesthetic of a spare, almost numerical, arrangement of objects in a drawing that contrasts the haphazard splay of traditional cluttered still-life. My recent work concentrates on using sculptural letterforms as subjects, posing them in groups that almost make words, and using light, perspective, and empty space to create a dream-like quality that engages the viewer intellectually as well as aesthetically. My preferred medium is silverpoint drawing, a medieval technique using fine metals on prepared paper, creating a subtle, beautiful surface to the drawing that changes over time.
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drawing
More Than a Friend is an illustration and fine art duo based out of Montréal. We work collaboratively, creating in tandem at every step of the process, conceiving ideas together, and then sharing the tasks of sketching and rendering, often re-working each others' artwork as the piece develops. The results is a mix of two styles of pop, realism and surrealism. Along with our fine art projects, we do commissioned illustration work for album covers, advertisements, and apparel graphics. And we have our own t-shirt line that features the best of our artwork onto limited edition streetwear.
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drawing
Steve Spencer has been a newspaper artist in New York, Michigan and Ohio for over 20 years; he currently works in Columbus, Ohio. He is especially interested in doing portraits, caricatures and sports illustrations, and has grown to enjoy designing informational graphics. He works digitally most of the time, and with pen, brush and ink, watercolors and scratchboard. Lately he's trying to learn Flash and branch into freelance work. His favorite all-time
artists are Al Hirschfeld and Charlie Russell. He and his wife Stephanie enjoy spending time with their big ol' boxer Roxanne.
Steve Spencer Art
drawing
I am an illustrator currently living in Brooklyn after spending 26 years in Canada. My paintings are made using ink, watercolor, pencil crayon and gouache and are heavily inspired by the city. I love painting people and water towers, buildings and trees. And pigeons. Even though I really dislike them. I also love painting portraits and drawing on location. I have done illustrations for magazines and have also exhibited in gallery shows.
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drawing
My name is oek, I'm an artist in Japan. I draw pictures with curves and shadows that I consider beautiful. Also make sculpture out of clay/plaster. Additionally I draw/sculpt for the people who want my works to see their happy faces. I want everyone to enjoy my works without knowledge of art nor language. Your intuition and how you feel from my work, is the way to enjoy my work. And that also is the way for me to draw/sculpt.
drawing
My name is Haze McElhenny and I have been working as a freelance artist, illustrator and designer for more than 10 years with a very diverse list of clients.
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mixed media
Utilizing reclaimed materials and antique paper ephemera, artist Savanna Snow seeks to explore a mythology of re-imagined gods, Alchemists and Apparitions. These gouache paintings employ gold and silver leaf in addition to archival ink & detritus. Her wood Carvings evoke Orishas or African totems and convey a sense of the ancient. Savanna seeks inspiration from her Trinidadian heritage & Halloween birthday. She resides in the hills of Berkeley, living in a historic studio built in 1897 by the sculptor Robert Payne.
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photography
I enjoy making art. It fills my every day. Though I went to art school, it didn't take my love away. Love, lust, sex, romanticism, and happiness are my inspiration. In my work objects are transformed through fetish into organisms that release the essence that their owners put in them, often, that essence is the message they wish to send to their significant other. Besides drawing I also make collages and photographs. I like making small drawings because I believe it is important to be intimate with the viewer. Traveling to warm places also inspires my work.
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drawing
Wayne Moseley is a
Brooklyn, NY based artist whose work consists of ink and charcoal drawings that are scanned and colored digitally, then sold as prints. Drawing from life, Wayne uses alterations of form and color to create a point of view, with an emphasis on psychological implications. "The most interesting thing about traveling through the city are the chance occurrences. I try to freeze those elements from the street or subway platform—and thaw them back out later in the studio." At play in making this happen are a combination of traditional drawing tools and unorthodox ones: razor blades, torn paper, sponges, and sandpaper are employed as the drawings are developed in successive stages. Color is then added via computer, and editing also occurs. Several of the prints are composites of more than one drawing. "Some of the people I've drawn in the works were unaware of being documented; others never existed! They were made up to complete a drama."
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drawing
Estevan Carlos Benson is a los angeles based musician, mixed media, new media artist, and no longer feels any spite.
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painting
Karyn Raz is an illustrator and painter based in
Santa Monica, CA. She is inspired by a good story, folk art, and all things colorful, from the paintings of Ernst Ludwig Kirchner to the textile designs of Josef Frank. She works in gouache and acrylic, and usually begins with a simple sketch.
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drawing
Having been raised in an abusive religious home where art and music were "of the devil" I had limited access to art supplies so I drew with pencils and marker on any paper I could find. Still do. I love the tiny lines coming together to make something come alive on a blank piece of paper. I love to have a story for each picture but let people create their own stories and meanings. Sometimes I like their version better. My landscapes are horror and beauty mixed, which is how I remember growing up. My ringtone is Tubular Bells.
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drawing
Drew Blackard is an artist/musician from Dallas, Texas. His passion for music is a constant theme in his art, which mainly consists of pencil and ink line drawings in the spirit of Shel Silverstein and Al Hirschfeld. Common subjects of the drawings include musicians and instruments with the occasional random unrelated image. Blackard also writes, performs, and records acoustic music in Dallas.
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drawing
The work of Bri Hermanson, a freelance illustrator living and working in Manhattan, covers a wide range of media, but she primarily works in scratchboard or pen & ink with
digital color. Focusing on line quality and mark-making while creating highly conceptualized imagery, even her commercial work has a deeply personal element. Lately, she has also been branching out into completely digital pieces based on her scratchboard marks. She grew up in a small town in Northern Oklahoma, surrounded by her family's ever-growing herd of horses, which continue to be one of her favorite subjects to draw.
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drawing
Heath Hinegardner is an illustrator and designer whose work appears in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times and The Village Voice.
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drawing
Molly Crabapple likes to draw pretty pictures of mean people, and mean pictures of pretty ones. She draws for the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Marvel Comics, and Playgirl, as well as hanging in galleries across the country. Her work is a hyper-detailed, Victorian-inspired take on sex, malice, and artifice- in other words, the stuff that makes New York tick. She also runs Dr. Sketchy's Anti-Art School, a burlesque life drawing session with nearly fifty branches around the world. In her free time, she likes coffee
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drawing
The art world has had a love/hate relationship with beauty for the last 100 years. I have no problems with it, and it frequently finds itself into my drawings.
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painting
I love to draw and paint the figure. Even at times when forced into painting landscapes there would always have to be some kind of human element 'haunting' the painting. Pre 9-ll my work contained much more content whereas after, my paintings are more about design and form. Upon the 9-11 events I guess I felt that there was enough 'content' surrounding me and my painting became a time for escapism.
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illustration
I work with drawings because of how quickly I see progression in various directions.
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