Saturday, February 25, 2006

Jorgen Mahler Elbang
Elbang creates a subversive universe filled with human figures that grow into their unusual environment. H.R Giger's imagery appears to be an influence in many of the pictures. These nightmare fantasy landscapes are filled with all kinds of weird creatures and ancient architecture.

2nd Gallery Larger pics in this one.

Friday, February 24, 2006

Jacek Yerka
Yerka's imagery takes seemingly ordinary things and combines them into the impossible. Cities are perched on top of giant trees, cars resemble dinosaurs, barns of hay become giant insects. It is a wild fantasy world where nothing is what it seems.

Thursday, February 23, 2006

Thomas Grunfeld

A peculiar combination of taxidermy and creative animal reconstruction.
Grumfeld is the Frankenstein of the animal kingdom, now he just needs to learn how to bring these creatures back to life.
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Wednesday, February 22, 2006

Mad Meg
A french? artist who's made some incredibly detailed pencil drawings of very unusual subjects. There is an insane reinterpretation of Bosch's center piece from his "Garden of Earthly Delights" painting. Check it out here. You can click on different sections of the image for additional details. The website is in French so here are some links to take you directly to some of the more interesting art on the site.

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Tuesday, February 21, 2006

Rina Donnersmarck
Here is a gallery with an assortment of strange beasts. The drawings are flat, minimal and sometimes tribal in their design. There also seems to be a resemblance with these creatures to those from the Nickelodean cartoon "AAAHH!!! Real Monsters!".

Chris Pottinger
The paintings and drawings of Chris Pottinger are filled with puss oozing, eyeball drooping, mutated oddities. But for all the gruesomeness of the creatures, it always comes across as humorous. This probably has to do with the large cartoon eyes and goofy expressions of the creatures portrayed, as well as the vibrant cartoon colors used in the artwork. And for the horrible state many of the things appear to be in, they still seem to be enjoying it.

Monday, February 20, 2006

Claude Verlinde
Verlinde's imagery is filled with very fantastic and dream like imagery. There is often a nightmarish quality to his images with a focus on death, as well as images with a sense of whimsical fantasy. His detailed painting techniques verge on the quality of the old masters which makes the works appear much older than they are.
There are additional links to Verlinde's imagery at the top of the gallery page.

Sunday, February 19, 2006

Randall Sellers
Randall Sellers draws in pencil, very bizarre cityscapes. Many of the roads seem to lead nowhere, much of the architecture appears to serve no purpose other than unusual decoration. Were this a real city, it could only have been designed by someone insane. And that just makes it all the more interesting to look at.
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Paul Noble
Paul Noble's drawings, mostly in pencil, are of intricately detailed cityscapes. They usually appear in some state of decay or abandonment. Hidden in some of the details can be seen very bizarre creatures and statues. The buildings themselves usually symbolize letters made up in Noble's own made up language.

This is yet another great artist without a real online gallery. I've managed to piece together a small array of his imagery, particularly Spamula's incredibly detailed scans from Noble's city, which can be seen by clicking the image above.
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