As you may or may not be aware, I’m orig­i­nally from Kansas City, Mis­souri. I’m headed back there near the end of May for a bit, and the Won­der Fair (actu­ally located in Lawrence, Kansas) is def­i­nitely one of the places I need to go dur­ing my trip. Their newest exhi­bi­tion, start­ing tomor­row, is Pyra­mid ...

This morn­ing I am enjoy­ing the work of Alan Brown. His spe­cialty seems to be water-based media such a ink and water color paint. Using them, he cre­ates por­traits and small scenes of a weird world. The Inter­net loves cats, and of course my per­sonal favorites are his paint­ings of cats (pumas and other cat-like crea­tures ...

Process Reprocess is a series all about what it takes to cre­ate work. For this install­ment, May Yang has been kind enough to enlighten us all as she begins a print­mak­ing series. At one time, she was call­ing her cur­rent series the “The Tiger and the Ram”, but has since scrapped that. Read the first ...

Recently I dis­cov­ered the work of Karen Bar­bour, thanks to Kate at Art Hound. Karen’s use of deeply sat­u­rated col­ors and dark, cloak­ing ink washes is not only visu­ally excit­ing, but holds a bit of mys­tery as well. Karen uses a wet-on-wet tech­nique in her work, let­ting the line work feather and bleed, dis­tort­ing and obscur­ing ...

Dark and moody, Orly Orbach’s draw­ings and prints evoke feel­ings of des­per­a­tion and loss. Orly’s work reminds me of Ger­man Expres­sion­ists, espe­cially Kathe Koll­witz. It’s amaz­ing the depth she is able to get with just pen and ink. I espe­cially love the wet-on-wet tech­nique and dark washes that are applied to his draw­ings. It cloaks her ...

Lis Tim­pone is an artist out of New York City. After view­ing her site, I can see that she has an affin­ity for wolves and a predator/prey relationship. Nearly all of Lis’s draw­ings inhab­ited by ani­mals — pri­mar­ily wolves. Although her ren­der­ings show the wolves(and a few other preda­tors) prey­ing upon oth­ers, Lis’s draw­ing style ...

Pia Bram­ley is a drawer/painter whose depic­tion of fig­ures and use of ink give her a strong image despite the poten­tial soft­ness of the medium. Ink washes can be sub­tle, and ink can have a hard edge to it as well. Pia manip­u­lates it in both direc­tions, giv­ing her work range. I really enjoy when ...

Lizzy Stew­art is a Scot­tish illus­tra­tor whose clients include Paste, the Guardian, and Tiny Show­case. She also par­tic­i­pates in gallery show and books! Lizzy is really great at the por­trait. She cap­tures an essence to her char­ac­ters through few lines or color, and you feel for them-even when some have a blank expres­sion on their face. ...

I don’t know about you, but spring has finally sprung where I am. It is beau­ti­ful out­side, and so I thought I’d share an artist that is just plain fun: Kris Chau. I find Kris’s draw­ings and paint­ings so won­der­ful — they are light, breezy, and have gor­geous line work. I look at her paint­ings ...

Jen Collins is an illus­tra­tor liv­ing in Scot­land. On a per­sonal note, I feel like we would get along swim­mingly; upon view­ing her web­site, you are (some­times ran­domly) pre­sented with a photo of a baked good, and she often com­ments how she loves tea (me too!). Her draw­ings have a con­fi­dent line to them with a ...