This will be my GPOYW this week :)
Sheila Squawk.
I was cleaning out my FB and I found an old drawing I did for my awesome friend, Sheila. I really recommend you follow her Tumblr if you don’t already. I don’t remember why I drew her as a penguin, maybe she does.
Art By Johan Thörnqvist.
He likes to add drawings of cities and people to photographs. The fire hydrant is my favorite of his collection. Thanks Drawn!
Alexa Meade - Live installation: Acrylic paint on found objects, walls, and flesh
The reverse trompe l’oeil series is Alexa Meade’s spin on reality. Alexa has invented a painting technique that makes 3 dimensional space look flat, blurring the lines between illusion and reality.
Typically a painting is an artist’s interpretation of the subject painted onto another surface. In Alexa’s paintings, she creates her artistic interpretation of the subject directly on top of the subject itself. Essentially, her art imitates life - on top of life.
By wrapping her subject in a mask of paint, she skews the way that the core of the subject is perceived.
That’s right, that’s a real, live person covered in acrylic paint made to look like a flat painting. Amazing.
(via Andy)
Sten and Lex’s Poster Stencils.
These pieces are stunning. They are a matrix of stencils, pasted on wood, painted, and then selectively destroyed, to create large scale photos of people. You need to click through just to watch their process.
Nave Ceiling, Santa Maria in Trastevere, Rome, Italy.
November 2007
Submitted by criticalmess
I think these are awesome, but Nikki at Badder Homes & Gardens still made me laugh:
I thought these carved crayons were the coolest things ever until I noticed the $4,000 price tag. Now I think they’re totally stuck up and bitchy. And I bet they think they’re better than me. But guess what, Crayolas? You’re not. DNA carved me. Some dumb artist carved you. So there.
