Chelsea Wong is an artist liv­ing in San Fran­cisco, draw­ing tigers, jump rop­ing, and peo­ple under spells. She also is a print maker and zine pro­ducer, uti­liz­ing screen print­ing in both areas. Her draw­ings seem light upon first glance, but once you really start to look at them they have a bit of dark­ness to them. ...

I am sort of sur­prised that I haven’t fea­tured the work on Geran Knol on Brown Paper Bag before. Styl­is­ti­cally, his work is right up my alley — hand crafted, abstracted with a bit of folk influ­ence. I am espe­cially a fan of Geran’s col­lages — I love the mix­ture of tex­tures and sub­tlies among ...

I know tweeted about this yes­ter­day, but I wanted to share it on here because I think Lizzy Stewart’s online drawn diary is so won­der­ful. I have writ­ten about her work before, most recently Toska. And, if I am not mis­taken, Lizzy has recently gone back to school for her grad­u­ate degree, so maybe that ...

Nowa­days, I spend a lot of time with my Instant Net­flix. Lately, I’ve been opt­ing to watch doc­u­men­taries and movies about ser­ial killers and crim­i­nals (but only dur­ing the day! It would nor­mally give me night­mares!). Need­less to say when I saw that Sean Lewis’s illus­tra­tions for his Spring 2011 the­sis show was about crim­i­nals ...

Arnaud Loumeau leaves no part of his images untouched by their medium, as his col­or­ful works lit­er­ally cover every inch of the com­po­si­tion. There is a cer­tain amount of anix­ety I get from Arnaud’s works — the forms, with their jagged edges, seem to con­jure the idea that there is an urgency or a threat ...

Last week, I made a visit to the stu­dio of Her­monie Only. Housed in the base­ment of the house in which she lives, it is dark and a bit haunt­ing, but also serene and authen­tic feel­ing to the work she makes. Her­monie, a b-grant award win­ner, uses both sculp­ture and paint­ing to explore ideas preva­lent ...

Carla Barth is an artist I fea­tured long ago and still keep up with her work. Perus­ing my Flickr, my eye was caught with these pieces: Carla’s work stems around rela­tion­ships, with her char­ac­ters in posi­tions that sug­gest an inti­mate part­ner­ship with a cer­tain level of uncanniness. All images via her Flickr. Check out her ...

The work of Rosie Eveleigh below. I enjoy see­ing the way in which she engages a square com­po­si­tion, which can be tricky. Choos­ing to keep things flat­tened, the images vary but use many same ele­ments. I enjoy the rep­e­ti­tion — some pieces work bet­ter than oth­ers, but there is def­i­nitely more than one way to ...

Graphite is quickly after my heart (and it has won it). After being estranged from it for many years, I have really loved the both the soft and deci­sive marks made. Josephin Ritschel’s draw­ings are warm yet fan­tas­ti­cal, as she draws not only sin­gle images but focuses her ener­gies on sequen­tial art as well. A lot ...

London-based illus­tra­tor and graphic designer Andrea Kear­ney makes very good use of ink and ink washes, which hap­pens to be a soft spot for me. Her illus­tra­tive style is a push and pull– it is both tight within the scope of it’s ren­der­ings, but she cre­ates tex­ture by allow­ing the ink to freely bleed. Head­less ...