Visit the Etsy shop of illustrator Matt Forsythe for some lively fun.
Artist Scott C. has a way of distilling great movies down to the essentials, all the while presenting them as beautifully rendered caricatures.
Bright and colorful, Brendan Wenzel’s animal studies also exhibit an enjoyable flavor of humorous caricature.
Glenn Barr’s work captures a wonderful blend of mythology and carnival theatrics with his lush color palettes and textures. Check out his great collection of works contained in: Haunted Paradise: The Art of Glenn Barr.
Or, as the Klingons would say: QISmaS botIvjaj ‘ej DIS chu’ botIvjaj!
Terry Gilliam plus Steampunk plus animation? You have my attention.
Best Christmas card EVER. Thank you Steve and Laura!
A big thanks goes out to the new Corel Painter Product manager Andy Church for including a spotlight of my work in the Winter edition of Painter Canvas.
Check out the delicate and whimsical drawings from Bulgarian artist Juri in his Green Optimist Etsy shop.
Follow this link for a fun collection of creative Christmas trees.
Misha Burlatsky creates photographs using the “Ambrotype” process. From the artist’s biography: “The ambrotype process (from Greek ambrotos, “immortal”) or amphitype is a photographic process that uses the wet plate collodion process to create a negative photographic image on a sheet of glass using whick looks as a positive image when put upon a black background. It was invented by Frederick Scott Archer in 1851.”
What better combination than the words of John Updike with drawings by Edward Gorey? This puts me in just the right holiday spirit.
Brian Cook’s take on Twitter gave me a smile this morning.
Fun animation from Arnold Zwanenburg.
Thanks to the overwhelming demand for this card set due to some tremendous blog spotlights, quantities became limited very quickly. Additional sets are now available. Thank you to everyone for your tremendous support and interest in buying. Shop now at the Etsy Shop.
Wonderful graphic style from L.A. illustrator Chris Turnham.
Imagining a parallel universe in which superheroes inhabit a Steampunk Victorian world, the Union of Superlative Heroes is a collection of characters from a variety of countries, each with their own unique abilities or mutations. Twenty cards in all, this set profiles such epic figures as Marquis Le Bat, Stupendous Gent, Empress Amazonia, Arachno Kid, Prince Aqueous, Lord Wolverton plus fourteen more. Each card showcases their portrait along with a brief biography and country of origin on the reverse. Now available in the Etsy shop.
2013 Desk Calendars are now available for both The Union of Superlative Heroes and The Order of Nefarious Villains.
Whimsically fun set of letterpress prints from Australian creative Wilkintie.
Etsy Dallas is hosting its 3rd Annual Jingle Bash, November 20th, 2pm-8pm in the Lone Star Room @ The Palladium, 1135 S. Lamar, Dallas. It’s a festive gathering of over 50 local vendors and their displays of handmade crafts and artwork. Sip on cocktails, win free stuff and groove to good tunes. Admission is free and open to the public and a great way to kick off your holiday shopping.
I’ll be there with a booth chock full of signed prints, trading cards, books, buttons, magnets and a whole lot more.
Monkey! leather paperweights have just been added to the Etsy shop. Measures approx. 3.5″ square with brown leather on front side and hot stamped smokin’ monkey graphic. Reverse side is black leather with embossed pattern. Perfect for home or the office. Anchor your important papers, documents and banana peels with style.
