I recently posted this series of images on Instagram, combining some of the happy imagery you find in 1950’s advertising, with some of the darker artwork you find on the covers of Pulp magazines and novels. DAYDREAM #1 DAYDREAM #2 DAYDREAM #3 DAYDREAM #4
I enjoyed the first ‘Your Art Here’ Instagram Challenge I took part in so much, I had another go – this time with a piece of artwork by Eryck Webb Graphics. You can see more of Eryck’s work here: http://www.eryckwebbgraphics.com
Just took part in a ‘Your Art Here’ Challenge on Instagram. Amazing illustrator Belle Dee (@belledee) provided the top half of a black cat and invited artists to finish the bottom half in their own style. I went for a cyborg cat design on the bottom with a porthole hatch to remove the dead mice….
I became aware of the existence of these amazing handpainted Ghanaian movie posters, after seeing them collected in a fanzine in Gosh Comics, Soho. The backstory goes that with the emergence of VHS in Ghana in the late eighties, entrepreneurs would purchase a copy of a Hollywood action movie or the latest Bollywood release or…
I’ve been having great fun, working on a personal project, experimenting making some digital collages using retro comic book art from the Comic Book + archive, a huge online repository of Golden and Silver Age comic books. You can check it out for yourself here: https://comicbookplus.com
I absolutely loved Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, but the thing I enjoyed most were the fake movie posters for the films Rick Dalton had made throughout his career and during his time in Italy. The posters by various artists including the great Renato Casaro (responsible for hundreds of classic movie posters including Conan…
I recently accidentally stumbled upon (and fell in love with) the Post-It Monsters of John Kenn Mortensen. John is a Danish artist who lives and works in Copenhagen. During the day he writes and directs television shows for kids. At night he unwinds by drawing, on Post-It notes, amazing (and extremely unsettling) scenes of monsters…
For his “V” HS Project, Iceland based French multimedia artist Philip Ob Rey creates ghostly figures, made entirely of recycled VHS tapes and photographs them in the frozen landscapes of Iceland. See more of his work here: http://www.humantropy.com
Moscow-based graffiti artist Evgeny Ches creates life-like wild animals in the forest by stretching cellophane between two trees, and then spray painting his murals onto the surface of the transparent film. The life-size wild animals, including a dinosaur, polar bear and monkey appear to be living among the forest trees. Check out his website to…
I recently discovered the artwork of Simon Stålenhag, a swedish sci-fi artist and I am blown away by his paintings. I love the combination of retro/nostalgic real world settings with advanced alien technology. I believe in his Kickstarter funded art books there are additional notes and world-building but I love viewing the artwork without these…