Anna Higgie is another artist today whose work focuses on the portrait. Stark contrast, fractured space, and meticulous mark-making are a few elements present in her work. Anna has worked for a number of different clients, including Nordstrom’s, Bloomingdales, and…
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-…
Malin Bergström is an Swedish-based artist and illustrator. She creates collages that suggest they might run parallel with the natural world, but not intersect. With one series of collages, Malin titles them Purely Coincidental, with the explanation, “Any resemblance to…
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…
Continuing a bit of typography on Brown Paper Bag today, I am really enjoying the word paintings of Wayne White. Wayne is not new to the art scene, as he’s had a fairly long career, starting out as an illustrator…
Often times, context is what gives things meaning, or gives us license to express proper emotion about something. In Michael C. Hsiung’s drawings, it’s not only the drawings I love, but his titles and explanations for his work as well…
In college, I took a class centered around the films of Alfred Hitchcock. We watched some of his classics, and it fostered my love for his films. When I saw Daniel Zender’s Hitchcock movie posters, it instantly had me adding…
Last weekend I had the delight of meeting with Elena Johnston, an artist based in my home city of Baltimore. Upon meeting her, I was instantly excited by not only her work and work space, but beautiful, light-filled apartment (and…
Today? More portraits! Or, maybe not exactly portraits, but depictions of people. It’s Irana Douer’s work,and I like it. Irana’s rather simple line drawings are complimented by accents of color and shape, interjecting symbols. There’s a connection made with nature…
I find these drawings by Mike Lay to be an interesting example of lifestyle illustration. They are conscious of trends and fashion, expressive at the same time, encompassing a certain feeling from drawing to drawing. The use of bright, electric…