Illustrations By Marynn

Marynn, a 20 year old illustrator from France is my new favorite artist. Love her style.

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Buddy Nestor Dark Portraits

Buddy was born and raised in Collingswood, New Jersey. He was a Latch-Key Kid during the birth of cable TV. This led to endless hours in front of the television, watching movies and drawing. He gravitated toward strange cult and horror films. As a skateboarder in the late 80’s and early 90’s, he was exposed to Punk, Indie, and Heavy Metal music. In 1997, after the birth of his son, Buddy decided to teach himself to paint. In 1999, he traveled around the world on an aircraft carrier and painted every day....

Nic Joly's Small Creations

Nic Joly’s tiny figurative sculptures are proof that you don’t necessarily have to go big to grab viewers attention.

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Matthew Davis Pooled Oil Paintings

Berlin-based artist Matthew Davis creates these surreal images by using his brush to slowly drip oil paints into small pools. After each color dries over a period of several days a new layer is added resulting in a dense, multi-dimensional surface.

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Word To Mother Show 2012

Can't Afford to be Broke
May 12 - June 2, 2012

London-based artist Word To Mother's newest collection of works features his distinctive visual assemblages of figures, patterns and typography painted in mixed media on wooden panels. Drawing from his own experiences in recent years, the state of the economy, and riots on his doorstep Can't Afford To Be Broke sees Word To Mother showing a sense of desperate yet hopeful pieces, using familiar references of both current and vintage popular culture icons, which evoke a sense of humor amongst more melancholic figures...

835 Larkin Street

San Francisco, CA 94109

Phone: (415) 931-1500

Painted Eyes by Harriet White

Harriet White's work involves large scale paintings reflecting conflicting senses of intimacy and glamour. The use of luscious, textured makeup evoke an immediate sense of dazzle and seduction, whereas the scale and cropping can imply a certain exposed vulnerability....
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Word To Mother Show 2012

Best wishes to ESPVisuals close friend, Word To Mother; who just opened his newest show at White Walls Gallery this weekend! Looking forward to seeing the show pics as I know that his latest body of work is his strongest to date....

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Josh Keyes New Show Above & Below

One of my fave American artists, Josh Keyes has a new show opening this month in Arizona....

Above and Below at the Joseph Gross Gallery
Selected Works, May 21 - Aug 30, 2012
Closing Reception: August 30th, 5-6:30pm
Artist will be in Attendance


Joseph Gross Gallery
University of Arizona
1031 N. Olive Road,
Room 108
Tucson, AZ
85721

Evol Show in New York

Streetartist, Evol has just opened his newest show at the Jonathan Levine Gallery in New York. I love his super-realistic looking stencils of city facades on cardboard.....

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Josh Keyes The Collector New Print

 One of my fave artists, Josh Keyes has just announced the release of his new Tiny Showcase print, "The Collector". Measuring 8" by 10", this edition is sized to fit into a standard frame.
It was printed by Tiny Showcase. Each piece is stamped and numbered. The print ships with a corresponding certificate of authenticity.

The archival artwork has been printed on a heavy 290gsm natural white printmaking paper made from 90% bamboo fibers and 10% cotton.
 Price: $30.00 plus shipping & handling. $10 dollars from the sale of each of the prints will be donated to the International Rhino Foundation.

 This print will be available for purchase through Tiny Showcase on Tuesday, May 1st until Tuesday, May 8th, 2012.


 This is the last one that I personally bought, 'Evacuation':

New Heidi Taillefer Prints

Detritus of Devotion on paper
Technique: Giclée
Paper Edition: 40
Size: 20″ x 28″

Price: $325

 Govinda and the Heiffer Nymph on paper
Technique: Giclée
Paper Edition: 40
Size: 24″ x 18″

Price: $290

Both are available from Von Scaramouche...

Blam's New Zine What Do You Write

On Friday, I received a lovely brand new Zine by UK graffer, BLAM. A very nice read it was and well worth the £6 it costs. Go forth and purchase!!

Red and Silver Edt
Ltd Edition A5 Fanzine with laser cut and hand finished covers. All unique, stamped , numbered and signed. By London Graffiti Artist BLAM. 16 pages B/W and colour of Graffiti, Words and Characters. With a full colour centre spread pullout and sticker. Also when buying this Fanzine you get a 1 in 10 chance of getting a Silver Deluxe hand painted edition.

 

Black Deluxe Edt
Black Deluxe WHAT DO YOU WRITE ? Ltd Edition A5 Fanzine with laser cut and hand finished cover. Unique 1of 1, stamped , numbered and signed. By London Graffiti Artist BLAM. 16 pages B/W and colour of Graffiti, Words and Characters. With a full colour hand painted centre spread pullout and sticker. This version features several hand painted pages and is a complete one off .

Available from ETSY here: http://www.etsy.com/shop/blamella

Sickboy In California

Was having a chat with Sickboy yesterday and he sent me some great images from his latest trip to California...

Check lots more of his images HERE....