The illus­tra­tion and paint­ings of Sarah Williamson are sim­ply won­der­ful, uti­liz­ing a few dif­fer­ent tech­niques to bring forth her visual lan­guage. There is a major empha­sis on the free­dom of media (as she paints with wet-on-wet) and a love the fig­ure and land­scape. Inspired by what’s around her, the Brook­lynite writes: I used to work, ...

Have you seen the doc­u­men­tary Beau­ti­ful Losers? If not, this film is def­i­nitely worth a view­ing and your time. It gives you some great back­ground (and fea­tures some awe­some artists) involved in the Mis­sion School in San Fran­cisco, CA. Chris Johan­son is a mem­ber of the Mis­sion School move­ment, although he lives in Port­land, OR ...

I am really intrigued by work of Jon Vaughn. His col­lages, which are just the tip of his art mak­ing, are chaotic and take away as much as they give. To really appre­ci­ate the col­lages of Jon, ample time needs to be spent, allow­ing your eye to sift through the lay­ers and under­stand the jux­ta­po­si­tions he ...

It might have been a lit­tle while, but the sec­ond install­ment of Art Together is here! If you aren’t famil­iar with the for­mat of Art Together, it has two dif­fer­ent com­po­nents. A col­lab­o­ra­tive piece is cre­ated between myself and another artist. Based on the fin­ished piece, and con­ver­sa­tion is had about what’s been cre­ated. My ...

Paint is a tale of moth­er­hood, writ­ten and drawn by Viven McDer­mid. It’s a story pre­sented in almost a comic for­mat, but doesn’t feel like one. It won the Guardian’s graphic short story prize. Paint is poignant, and touches on a range of emo­tions trig­gered as we move through­out our days. The small­est things can ...

When Kaeleen Wescoat-O’Neill first intro­duced me to her series of mugshots, I was imme­di­ately struck by the tech­nique and han­dling of her por­traits. The mugshots she painted were not of any ordi­nary folks; they were specif­i­cally peo­ple from the county where she group, some even being from the school she attended as a teenager. This ...

Fupete is an Ital­ian artist and illus­tra­tor whose work dons not only the gallery, but bill­boards, print design, and prod­ucts (likes shoes!). Fupete’s work is expres­sive and raw, and some­times out of con­trol. He incor­po­rates drip­ping paint, choppy mark-making, and solemn faces to give his work feel­ing. I often get the sense of chaos with ...

Jake Watling is another Cal­i­forn­ian whose work is vibrant, cel­e­bra­tory yet eerie at the same time. While I’ve just chose works of his fine art/illustration, Jake is also a art direc­tor and graphic designer. His work involves char­ac­ters that are seem­ingly grounded in our world, yet clearly exist in their own. Jake incor­po­rates things you’d ...