See hundreds of Kaliman covers in this gallery.
Friday, February 15, 2008
Thursday, February 14, 2008
Cereal/Novelty Toy Creature Art
I stumbled into this incredible collection of odd novelty cereal toy art along with many photos showing all the weird creatures that came with cereal back in the old days. If only they still put stuff this cool in cereal boxes now! All the cereal art and toys are included in this collection. More weird art and photos of odd critters can be found at the photo album for Thingmaker Toys. All photos are provided by Astronit on flickr.
Also, for anyone into making t-shirts, the Nit Party creatures and Quisp alien monsters would make some great designs - 1 - 2 - 3 - 4
And someone posted a huge number of Freakies cereal commercials in this youtube clip.
I stumbled into this incredible collection of odd novelty cereal toy art along with many photos showing all the weird creatures that came with cereal back in the old days. If only they still put stuff this cool in cereal boxes now! All the cereal art and toys are included in this collection. More weird art and photos of odd critters can be found at the photo album for Thingmaker Toys. All photos are provided by Astronit on flickr.
Also, for anyone into making t-shirts, the Nit Party creatures and Quisp alien monsters would make some great designs - 1 - 2 - 3 - 4
And someone posted a huge number of Freakies cereal commercials in this youtube clip.
Wednesday, February 13, 2008
Yoshitaka Amano - Deva-Loka
"The Galerie Michael Janssen Berlin is pleased to present the solo exhibition by Yoshitaka Amano. 30 new works, as well as new anime films will be on view until the end of February at the Berlin gallery space. With its 7 meters the largest painting, Deva-Loka, depicts a fabled world completely filled with psychedelic figures."
Pictures from the exhibit can be found at the gallery website here. A better source for artwork from the show, as the works are much larger, can be found at the "We Make Money, Not Art" flickr page for the Amano exhibit here.
More paintings from the exhibit can be found on Artnet and Calamasque's flickr photos. An article on the exhibit can be found at Creative Europe.com
I have a few Amano art books and a lot of his art downloaded from various places and intend to do a large post on his stuff possibly later this year. I don't care for Final Fantasy games but I can't resist looking through the game guides at bookstores to see his incredible artwork that is usually used in them. I regret not buying a book I saw a few years ago that had a detailed map from Final Fantasy that Amano had painted which was I think a fold out poster / cover on the book. I've since found it posted on flickr here, although not in great detail. If anyone knows where I can find this fantasy map painting by Amano in more detail I'd like to check it out, thanks!
"The Galerie Michael Janssen Berlin is pleased to present the solo exhibition by Yoshitaka Amano. 30 new works, as well as new anime films will be on view until the end of February at the Berlin gallery space. With its 7 meters the largest painting, Deva-Loka, depicts a fabled world completely filled with psychedelic figures."
Pictures from the exhibit can be found at the gallery website here. A better source for artwork from the show, as the works are much larger, can be found at the "We Make Money, Not Art" flickr page for the Amano exhibit here.
More paintings from the exhibit can be found on Artnet and Calamasque's flickr photos. An article on the exhibit can be found at Creative Europe.com
I have a few Amano art books and a lot of his art downloaded from various places and intend to do a large post on his stuff possibly later this year. I don't care for Final Fantasy games but I can't resist looking through the game guides at bookstores to see his incredible artwork that is usually used in them. I regret not buying a book I saw a few years ago that had a detailed map from Final Fantasy that Amano had painted which was I think a fold out poster / cover on the book. I've since found it posted on flickr here, although not in great detail. If anyone knows where I can find this fantasy map painting by Amano in more detail I'd like to check it out, thanks!
Tuesday, February 12, 2008
Kalender Of Shepherdes
Here's a handful of great woodcuts found while browsing peacay's excellent image collection over on flickr. See more from the Kalender Of Shepherdes collection here.
The following is a quote from peacay regarding what these works are about...
"The 'Kalender of the Shepherdes' is a late medieval almanac first published in the 1490s in Paris by Guy Marchant and Antoine Vérard. It incorporates writing and illustrations that traverse a number of themes including astrological, feasting and Saints day calendars, farming advice, folk medicine and (most significantly) religious instruction."
More info and pics are available at the original BibliOdyssey article.
Here's a handful of great woodcuts found while browsing peacay's excellent image collection over on flickr. See more from the Kalender Of Shepherdes collection here.
The following is a quote from peacay regarding what these works are about...
"The 'Kalender of the Shepherdes' is a late medieval almanac first published in the 1490s in Paris by Guy Marchant and Antoine Vérard. It incorporates writing and illustrations that traverse a number of themes including astrological, feasting and Saints day calendars, farming advice, folk medicine and (most significantly) religious instruction."
More info and pics are available at the original BibliOdyssey article.
Monday, February 11, 2008
Hell Fresco
"Particular of a fresco in the splendid late-medieval chapel of San Fiorenzo, Bastia Mondovi', Cuneo, Piedmont, Italy"
- image source
"Particular of a fresco in the splendid late-medieval chapel of San Fiorenzo, Bastia Mondovi', Cuneo, Piedmont, Italy"
- image source
Sunday, February 10, 2008
J.P. Benson - The Woozle Beasts (1905)
Enjoy a weird variety of limericks in this collection of fantasy animals.
Enjoy a weird variety of limericks in this collection of fantasy animals.
Belloc's Beastiary 1896-97
Click here to see a handful of peculiar drawings of beasts from Hilaire Belloc at Michael Sporn's Animation Splog.
More illustrations from "The Bad Child's Book of Beasts" originally released in 1896 can be found here. Additional illustrations from "More Beasts For Worse Children" released in 1897 can be found here. Both are located at The Baldwin Online Children's Literature Project.
Link found thanks to A Blog of Bosh.
Click here to see a handful of peculiar drawings of beasts from Hilaire Belloc at Michael Sporn's Animation Splog.
More illustrations from "The Bad Child's Book of Beasts" originally released in 1896 can be found here. Additional illustrations from "More Beasts For Worse Children" released in 1897 can be found here. Both are located at The Baldwin Online Children's Literature Project.
Link found thanks to A Blog of Bosh.
Saturday, February 09, 2008
Fred Zepp/ Mark's Ceramic Sculptures
Click here to see more art and related photographs at Mark's flickr gallery.
Click here to see more art and related photographs at Mark's flickr gallery.
Temptation Of Saint Anthony
Here's another Hieronymus Bosch imitation by an unknown artist. Many more temptations of Saint Anthony can be found here.
Here's another Hieronymus Bosch imitation by an unknown artist. Many more temptations of Saint Anthony can be found here.
Friday, February 08, 2008
Beasts! Book Two!
Above is an amazing work by Femke Hiemstra going into the next Beasts! book orchestrated by Jacob Covey and published by Fantagraphics Books. I'll be mentioning this book later this year nearer to its release date, for now enjoy some preview art from the book at the Beasts! blog here.
And I'm proud to say that I have artwork of my own that will be appearing in the book.
If you haven't already, pick up the first Beasts! book from Fantagraphics here.
Above is an amazing work by Femke Hiemstra going into the next Beasts! book orchestrated by Jacob Covey and published by Fantagraphics Books. I'll be mentioning this book later this year nearer to its release date, for now enjoy some preview art from the book at the Beasts! blog here.
And I'm proud to say that I have artwork of my own that will be appearing in the book.
If you haven't already, pick up the first Beasts! book from Fantagraphics here.
Monday, February 04, 2008
Yali
"..a mythical creature seen in many Hindu temples. The yali has a catlike graceful body, but the head of a lion with tusks of an elephant and tail of a serpent. " - Image Source
"..a mythical creature seen in many Hindu temples. The yali has a catlike graceful body, but the head of a lion with tusks of an elephant and tail of a serpent. " - Image Source
Beast Illumination
I found the above painting in this collection of beast illuminations. There is a wide variety of these illuminations collected at La Bibliothèque nationale de France.
Check out the incredible landscape paintings on this page.
I found the above painting in this collection of beast illuminations. There is a wide variety of these illuminations collected at La Bibliothèque nationale de France.
Check out the incredible landscape paintings on this page.
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