Adam Buttrick's "Balloon Diary"
Here's another friend who has some amazing artwork. Adam has collected many of his weird ink drawings on his "Balloon Diary" art blog. His style reminds me of Aztec art with a comic book influence. Adam is also part of the group art/comic blog "Eaten By Ducks".
Saturday, December 23, 2006
Friday, December 22, 2006
Farmer Bob's Flickr Gallery
One of my art pals "Robert Hardgrave" has a giant collection of his art at his flickr account. I mentioned his other website on here awhile back. I'm always amazed and inspired by his unique abstractions and use of color. He was kind enough to contribute a great page to an anthology (long delayed) comic that some great artists and I put together which I'll mention on here when it's ready, which should be soon.
Concerning the remixes of a few of his drawings that he mentions me doing here...
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I made those by digital alteration, Here is the second of the two drawings by Robert that I made those from.
Thursday, December 21, 2006
Tuesday, December 19, 2006
Henry R Robinson
Title reads... "A Minister Extraordinary Taking Passage And Bound On A Foreign Mission To The Court Of His Satanic Majesty!"
The lithograph has an interesting and grotesque backstory - "The second of two prints surrounding the scandalous trial of Methodist minister Ephraim K. Avery for the brutal murder of factory girl Sarah Maria Cornell. (See "A Very Bad Man," no. 1833-13). Contrary to Weitenkampf's suggestion that the print relates to Andrew Jackson, it is actually visionary portrayal of Avery transported to damnation by demons.Avery has departed the scene of his crime (left) where his victim, now expired, still hangs strangled from a post. Her shoes, kerchief, and a note reading "If I am missing enquire of the Revd. Mr..." lay nearby. As monsters fly overhead, Avery is rowed toward a shore at right where an inferno blazes and a man is boiled in a cauldron. Avery appears again in the upper right, being forcibly led toward a precipice."
Pongomania
Lots of weird creature sculptures made from something called "Pongo", which is apparently similar to clay.
Monday, December 18, 2006
Sergei Aparin
2nd Gallery at the Beinart Surreal Art Collective.
Link found thanks to lines and colors.
Michael Hussar
Pay attention to the proportion of the left hand compared to the rest of the body, very haunting.
2nd Gallery




