Good Knight...

 The Merry Karnowsky gallery held Craola's solo show, "Good Knight" May 17th, 2014.

 He steps it up every single time.

 I cannot stop staring at all the details and hidden imagery, especially when the size of a lot of the new paintings are enormous.

 "The Hunting Party" was one of my favorite pieces that night.

Scratch My Back...

If I used cheese graters, I'd want this one. This was originally submitted for a contest on Design Boom by belgian designers: arnaud de vicq, bram de baere, luc heylen, ruud belmans and thomas anden abeele. images from 72dpi.

Scissor Spider...

I wanna make a scissor spider too! I will need a torch and hammer please.
Christopher Locke makes these out of scissors confiscated by the TSA.

horse rocket...

I had a strange illustration request...
...and I decided this is definitely something to share.

Happy Wednesday!

elephant parade...

in honor of my best friend i had to post this; it's art and it's elephants!
250 life-sized baby elephants will take over the streets of London this summer, May 3rd-June 29th. they're all hand painted and decorated by all kinds of artists.isaac mizrahi's bright elephant.
3 of the 250 elephants on parade!

official elephant parade site.

nate frizzell's sketchbook...

nate frizzell posted pages from his sketchbook...
he customized his cover too!

cool bear...

graffiti artist, phil lumbang, is releasing a fine art print! only 50 though. you see his bears and pandas plastered on walls in downtown LA don't you? fun stuff...this cool bear was found on obey giant.

the ark project...

this book is the result of the ark project. it's an illustrative encyclopedia; 210 artists from around the world illustrated animals from their home country...i love the concept. now, who can i buy this book for?

tape art contest...

mark jenkins has an entire portfolio of creatures and creations made of tape left all over the world...now 3M who makes Scotch brand tape is having a contest with a $5000 cash prize. The deadline is February 28, 2010. Jenkins will be on the panel of judges for the tape creations too.

info from arrested motion.

spool spectrum...

Aubrey Longley-Cook commits stitchwitchery...these are fascinating embroidery works because of the unusual subjects. He stitches all kinds of images from people to maps to animals and traditional flowers. he posts his creations on the blog spool spectrum and you can buy his work at the spool spectrum etsy shop. i want to pick up a needle now.
found on if its hip its here

brandou at corey helford gallery...

if only i heard about this show earlier...i'm loving andrew brandou's newer pieces of characters made of flora parts.

inflatable bag monsters...

joshua allen harris creates ephemeral sculptures using subway air and other public ventilation systems to give life to his plastic bag creatures!

for my grandparents...

i'm not the greatest painter; i definitely need to practice more. its almost my grandparents' birthdays though, so these are their birthday presents. they're small, acrylic on canvas...i might like the backgrounds of just water and sky more than the final product :P

an art adventure: nucleus to lebasse...

saturday night, i decided i could make two events that were occurring at the same time practically twenty miles apart. with a little planning and a posse of crime fighters, we headed to alhambra for an early dinner. i didn't want my girls to starve while i dragged them all over southern california. we ate a pretty filling dinner at Baccali about 5pm and headed to Nucleus Studios around 6pm. their current show was October Shadows: drawings, paintings, and sculptures of the halloween variety.
i was mesmerized and disturbed by the art of Cam de Leon. there was a cute little painting of trick-or-treaters that made us smile too...although the october shadows show was cool, the point of going to Nucleus was to meet James Jean. i missed his book signing at GR2, so i could not miss this one too.
i bought his book of 12 prints, Kindling and all three of his artist series Hint Mints (previously posted here). he was really nice despite the hot lights he was sitting under, and did this quick, quirky sketch for me. its cute and a little freaky at the same time, i like it...
part one of the adventure was complete with treasures successfully gathered! we left Nucleus a little after 7pm and fought a little traffic to make it to LeBasse Projects just about 8pm. it was opening night for Nate Frizzell's solo show! Mr Beau Basse, who we met last week, helped me get a sketch from Nate too! he wrote "i'm sorry," but Sir, for a little drawing in the middle of your solo show, it's pretty fantastic...
Yoskay Yamamoto was running around in an animal mask; i've met him before, but i was too nervous to say 'hi.' i took a picture of a little Yoskay sculpture on Nate's installation tree though...the show was called Lost in the Thicket and this was my favorite piece, Never Alone...
and these are my friends...

also at LeBasse Projects was the Kids are Alright show in the Project Room. i loved this piece in person...
awesome night, all around. both events ended at 10pm, but we were on our way to get dessert at Cafe Ugo by 9:30; perfect way to end the night.

blue bunnies...

i'm planning a baby shower for my friend. this is a sample of graphics i'm making to decorate...

swine flew...

way to keep up with the times! tshirts available on skyscraper blog. seriously though, wash your hands. swine flew is funny, but swine flu isn't.

twelve animals...

i'm asian, therefore i have a natural gravitation to things like the lunar calendar and certain animals in the zodiac. this guy made all twelve animals out of the world map!

can you see the continents?

hand painting...

my mother received a forwarded email with a series of these hand paintings a couple months ago. i just found out who the artist is: guido daniel.
he did an international ad campaign for at&t last year...
ad monkey article
guido daniel