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

Tomomi Sakuba
A Few Russian Trolls





















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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."
A Happy Dance For Europe - T.Tegg

Sunday, December 17, 2006