Frank Hyder’s fish series explores color, patterns and shapes to great effect.
Bioshock Infinite, due for release next week.
Wonderful character design from Max Kostenko.
Beautifully rich textures mingled with a collection of wrapped animals from Eckart Hahn.
Joe Fig’s tiny dioramas of famous artists at work in their studios are a thing of beauty. Above: Jasper Johns at work.
Ramon Villalobo delivers up a fun Moonrise Kingdom mash up.
Life On Mars from Lukas Vojir
Riikka Ausvinen’s lush colorful watercolors lend a fresh look to pop culture characters.
Hilarious set of shorts from the students at Filmakademie Baden.
Fabian Oefner photographs paint flung by centrifugal force. He captures delicate colors and shapes that has the fleeting magic of a fireworks display.
The “Land of Kaiju” project meets the Victorian puzzle pouch. This folded design dates back to 1782 and were utilized in a variety of countries. The Japanese version, known as a “Tato”was used to store items such as buttons and needles. Known as a Valentine Puzzle Purse in Britain, it was popular during the Victorian era, used for love notes. One piece of paper is intricately folded to act as a container for a small item. In this case the treasure included inside is an original signed ChetArt sketch card. The pouch measures approx. 3.75″ square when folded and expands to 11.25” square with colorful creature portraits and an alliterative phrase on one side. The reverse displays a fanciful moonlit battle scene and provides a container for the sketch card. An intermediate layer displays the Japanese term “Kaiju,” translating to strange beast or monster. The folded sheet is printed in color on sturdy 44 lb. cover stock.
Each puzzle pouch includes one signed sketch card measuring 3″ square.
Do Ho Suh creates amazing sculpture work.
A group of ChetArt 3 inch square “Land of Kaiju” sketch cards are marching their way to
Emerald City Comic Con in Seattle. (along with a whole bunch of other stuff)
A selection of characters from the new series “Land of Kaiju” is now available on a variety of iPhone and iPad cases. For the iphone, you can choose to display on the iPhone 5 Deflector, 5 Capsule, 4S/4 Deflector, 4S/4 Capsule, 3GS Capsule and iPod touch 4G Capsule. These fearsome characters can also guard your iPad on the (Retina) Deflector and iPad 2 Deflector style cases.
The third installment of Mail Me Art is the brain child of Darren Di Lieto. The art show will be comprised of pieces created on envelopes and mailed to Darren. Mail art is a unique form of creation that’s been around for decades. Some pieces are lost, damaged or doodled on along the way, so ultimately making it to its destination is an extra factor in its form of creation. I was honored to be a part of the first Mail Me Art show and subsequent book in 2006. This time around the requested dimensions are a uniform and smaller size, thus the title of the show: Mail Me Art: Short and Sweet. For my contribution, I continued my recent theme of Kaiju, (strange beast) Japanese monsters with a wash and marker sketch on brown paper. The piece officially made it to England this week. (Darren’s scan of the envelope shown above.)
Read more about the event and see more entries on the official Mail Me Art blog.
Artist Hubert Duprat substitutes the typical building supplies of sand, minerals and plant material with gold leaf and jewels for caddis fly larvae to build their cases from. via Cabinet
“The Detective” was created for Ltd. Gallery’s “Mint Condition 2” show which opens March 1st and is presented in conjunction with Emerald City Comic Con. For this comic book themed art show I created a still life incorporating Batman’s 1940’s Batmobile… in kiddie ride form. Closer inspection reveals several references to some of Batman’s famous foes. This piece will be available for sale at the gallery as a 1/1 16″ x 20 framed Giclee and as an edition of signed and matted 11″ x 14″ prints (20.) If you can’t make it to the gallery the edition will be made available for sale through the gallery’s web site.
“The Detective” by Chet Phillips– “Fighting crime with a roll of dimes.”
Robert and Shana ParkeHarrison are expert in conjuring surreal dream-like imagery. Be sure and view their Architect’s Brother series.
