I really love Jay Cover’s work. Bold, graphic, and shape dri­ven, his work tran­si­tions to dif­fer­ent media and dimen­sions flaw­lessly. His work is so flat and very styl­ized, and that is what I love most. Just look at his ani­mals– their snouts exist on an entirely dif­fer­ent plane than their eyes. Some­thing that could never ...

I am sorry for the delayed post today! My brain is cur­rently work­ing at half capac­ity, as I am suf­fer­ing from a nasty sinus infec­tion. Have you ever popped your ear and it’s made your jaw ache? I have, last night. Not fun. Enough with my whin­ing. Onward! Amanda Gehin describes her­self a fan­tasy archi­tec­ture engi­neer ...

I used to have hair that was pretty long. You could do all the fun things with it, like braid it, putting a bun on the top of your head, brush it a sat­is­fy­ing 100 strokes…but then I decided to chop eight inches (maybe more!) off. While I don’t often regret my deci­sion, it’s look­ing ...

I know that these murals are noth­ing new (but new to me!!), but I recently came across the work of Andreas Rag­nar Kas­apis. His paint­ings, which are painted on both wood and on walls, are beau­ti­fully ren­dered. Color is grad­u­ally lay­ered, as is mark mak­ing, and Andreas is not shy to show us how an ...

Leah Tacha, an artist liv­ing and work­ing in Brook­lyn, New York emailed me recently with her work. Specif­i­cally, she turned me on to her col­lages, which often jux­ta­pose bas­ket­ball play­ers with glit­ter, and iso­lates over-the-top ges­ture of fash­ion pho­tog­ra­phy. Leah’s artist state­ment gives us some insight into this: I was raised by a mother who was ...

I am really enjoy­ing the style of LLCoolJo today. His style, a bit of alter­na­tive comic look to it, works really well with por­traits. I love how dark they are, which makes me sort of uneasy. Ever since watch­ing Ren and Stimpy as a child, I’ve had an aver­sion to bugs, worms, and things of ...

I am not sure where or who inhab­its the paint­ings of Leslie Mar­tinez, but they seem to be a mix­ture of the dead and undead, deter­mine to keep order or destroy it. Small crea­tures hover around a larger being, with very lit­tle inter­ac­tion between the two. It leaves me to won­der what the motive is ...

I always knew that Lizzy Stew­art could draw. But, when she was kind enough to send me one of her lat­est endeav­ors, Toska, I really got to see her draw­ing prowess first hand, not just on the inter­webs. Her beau­ti­ful style has been trans­lated into a black and white litho printed, 20 page book that ...

Amber Kempthorn’s work employs the use of myth­i­cal crea­tures and birds to con­vey a nar­ra­tive that is often times a quest, the begin­ning or end of it. Absurd sit­u­a­tions and char­ac­ters help to make their sto­ries believ­able and endearing. I really enjoy her care­fully col­laged works, which use graphite, ink, pas­tel, and other papers. The ...

I am very excited to share the lat­est install­ment of Art Together, a col­lab­o­ra­tive inter­view. It works like this: I cre­ate a piece of work and then mail it to the par­tic­i­pat­ing artist. They, in turn, respond to it some how– this could be: adding, sub­tract­ing, cut­ting, past­ing, paint­ing. What­ever they see fit to what ...