i want more

Ashkahn

2009-04-11T09:17:00.000-07:00

Starting to really get into illistration rather then painting... hmm new path? sounds fun. Found this great one via Booooooom.com

2009-04-08T12:14:00.000-07:00

http://www.christiane-haase.de/en.lang/objekte/ot_03.php
so wonderful

Several f my own pieces

2009-01-28T08:59:00.001-08:00

Small Section of one of my balance studies.

Mark Ryden

2009-01-15T08:54:00.000-08:00

Saint Barbie
1994

Oil on Panel

Artist Statement - "The Meat Show" - October 1998
Well, I have to admit I don’t really paint my paintings; a Magic Monkey does. He comes to my studio late at night, when it’s very quiet. Mysterious things happen late at night when most people are asleep. I help the magic monkey, but he does most of the work. My big job is to get him to show up. I’ve been learning just what that takes. He is very particular. The right frame of mind is important; I have to switch my brain from linear, logical thinking to creative, free feeling. If I start to think too much, then it’s time for a nap or perhaps build a fort out of blankets with my son. Things have to flow from a place that is more subconscious and uninhibited. When you believe and have faith things will flow. You can really feel it. It’s like magic. The Monkey comes tapping at the door, we get the paint and brushes out of the treasure chest and we have a great time making art.
When I was a child in school my teachers would wonder why my drawings of dogs would have their intestines showing or why my self portraits had a third eye. They disapproved, but I got a lot of support from my family and I learned to really enjoy confusing my teachers and even scaring them. Children have no inhibitions when making their art. I’ve never seen my 4 year old son have a creative block; and his art is much more interesting than most adult’s art. Children are miraculous.
I believe to get ideas you have to nourish the spirit. I stuff myself full of the things I like: pictures of bugs, paintings by Bouguereau and David, books about Pheneous T. Barnum, films by Ray Harryhausen, old photographs of strange people, children’s books about space and science, medical illustrations, music by Frank Sinatra and Debussy, magazines, T.V., Jung and Freud, Ren and Stimpy, Joseph Campbell and Nostradamus, Ken and Barbie, Alchemy, Freemasonary, Buddhism. At night my head is so full of ideas I can’t sleep. I mix it all together and create my own doctrine of life and the universe. To me, certain things seem to fit together. There are certain parallels and clues all over the place. There may be a little part of Alice in Wonderland that fits in. Charles Darwin, and Colonel Sanders provide pieces. To me the world is full of awe and wonder. This is what I put in my paintings.
It seems to me that everything I am going to paint I have already painted. Something will “click” and an entire image will flash in my head. I then just have to remember what all the specific details of the image are supposed to be. I will often get stuck on a minor detail like the pattern on a curtain or the species of a background animal. It is very clear when I have the correct answer and resolve all the pieces of a work successfully. I just come as close as possible to what is supposed to be there.
I believe if you follow your heart and do what you love, success will follow. If you enchant yourself, others will be too. -Mark Ryden - October, 1998

Snow White
Oil on Canvas, 1997

Painting Size: 48" x 72"

Jen Stark

2008-11-18T11:12:00.000-08:00

"Phantasm"
2008
22"x30"
Felt-tip Pen on Paper

2008-11-13T13:47:00.000-08:00

this is wright

2008-10-28T12:17:00.000-07:00

If Space 1026 (of which he is a founder) is to Philadelphia's art scene what hip-hop is to music, then consider Andrew Jeffrey Wright its Ice T: an O.G. Whether it be drawing, painting, animation or photography, Wright's art is sharp social commentary dressed in a humor suit. Working with Clare Rojas, he won top prize for animation at the New York Underground Film Festival and the New York Comedy Film Festival, and has exhibited at Los Angeles's New Image Art Gallery and Giant Robot in New York. His most recent show was "Art for Corporations," a solo exhibit at San Francisco's The Luggage Store.

Jerry de Wilde

2008-10-15T17:29:00.000-07:00

"Jerry, aka "Dok," was born in Brooklyn, NY and after graduating Columbia University in 1959, he moved west to Los Angeles in the spring of 1960. He was introduced to fine art photographer Robert Frank in 1964 and was Robert's camera assistant and production coordinator on the west coast shooting of the film "Chappaqua". Robert then invited Jerry to come to New York and assist him on his film "Me and My Brother" featuring Peter and Julius Orlovsky and Allen Ginsburg. Robert, as friend and mentor, encouraged Jerry to think about photography not so much as pretty pictures but reflect on what his pictures were about. Upon returning to Los Angeles in late spring of 1965, he and friend, Anton Greene, an artist and filmmaker, rented the old 46 acre Barham Ranch in the hills above Warner Bros. Studios. Over the next 7 to 8 years it became known as "The Farm," a creative environment that was a notorious haven for actors, writers, musicians, artists, designers, filmmakers and poets. In the fall of 1966 he moved into a small cabin in Big Sur and emerged the next spring to work in production on the Monterey Pop Festival. Using "The Farm" as a home base, he traveled around the country and Europe photographing Art Happenings, Love-Ins, Anti-War demonstrations, and the Counter Culture of the late 60's and early 70's. In the mid 70's he began shooting production stills and specialty photography on films and TV commercials for directors and cinematographers like Melvin Sokolsky, Tony Scott, Ridley Scott, Vilmos Zsigmond, Haskell Wexler, and Allen Daviau to name a few. In 1992 he was invited to be an associate professor of fine art photography at Woodbury University where he taught for 7 years. Most recently, he has been photographing, printing and exhibiting large and medium format black and white abstract landscapes, shot mostly in the American Southwest and Scotland. "(http://www.morrisonhotelgallery.com/)

Ken Kesey, "Atlantis Rising", Año Nuevo, CA 1970

Mary and Autumn, Woodstock, NY 1970

I love this print.

personal art

2008-09-25T10:51:00.000-07:00

acrylic on canvas

winter, 2007

Jamie Morgan

Steven Assael

2008-09-23T16:19:00.000-07:00

Steven Assael is amazing, his work is so thrilling

Druso

2002, Oil on Canvas

96 x 50 in.

Club Kids

2001, Oil on Canvas

73 x 60

He also does beautiful sketches

Untitled

ba-loon

2008-07-30T12:33:00.000-07:00

What a wonderful way to die

Scott Barry - Spritual Boner

2008-07-21T13:59:00.000-07:00

"It’s serious to get a boner about spirituality"