As an avid collector of random crap I’m drawn to this set of beautiful colour studies by New York-based artist Sara Cwynar.
Category Archives: Art
Amanda Wachob Tattoo
Stunning tattoo style from Amanda Wachob. Looks like nothing I’ve seen before, the colours, the brush strokes, doesn’t look like it could of been made with a needle?
Via: design work life.
Tattooed Portraits
Fascinating tattoo paintings by Shawn Barber. Quite a large growing collection, I particularly like the equipment/tattoo gun studies.
Via: NOTCOT.
A Love Letter For You
I‘m loving this series of murals – A Love Letter For You, by Stephen Powers. He’s still got a few more to do (50 comissioned in total), reminds me a bit of Bob & Roberta Smith’s shop signage stuff around Hoxton Street, although Steve’s stuff is much more graphically interesting and funny.
Via: 30gms.
Drawings on paper towels
Nice take on toilet graffiti by doodler Marc Johns, check out all his paper towel drawings here. Must remember my felt tip next time I’m dropping the kids off.
Via: DivineCaroline.
Rolling Stones album cover brief
Mick Jagger’s brief to Andy Warhol – “do what ever you want….. and please write back saying how much money you would like”. Ha ha, why don’t I ever get briefs like this!
The album in question was Sticky Fingers, which famously had a huge bulging cock imprint on a pair of jeans with a working zipper:
Via: Biggest Apple.
Mark Weaver
Mark Weaver is still knocking his retro/modern collage pieces every day, I hope he makes this one into one of his silksreen posters.
More cake action!
While I’m on the subject of cakes, I came across this Threadless Cake baking competition (now ended). Basically you had to re-create a Threadless t-shirt as a cake, my favourite was this You Are The Best cake by Leslie Evans. Look at the all the bloody detail on that lettering?! Everyone seems to be using ‘fondant’ though? Not nearly as tastey as marzipan, yum yum, looks like it might be a bit more sturdy to work with though.
Recovering Lazyholics Reminders
I‘m loving these cut out reminders that Lazyholic has made. Reminds me of something similar I used to do at university with pictures of Clint Eastwood reminding me to do stuff, but much less weird.. I think Nicky might come home today to find our house covered in something similar, I’m definitely feeling the lazy bug at the moment.
You should also check out her blog & Flickr, all full of good stuff.
Via: How Magazine.
Seb’s Tits & Arse
I‘ve blogged about the typographic skills of Seb Lester before, but I think he deserves another post for this excursion from his usual precise clean vector lines, to this more old school tits & arse action ;)
He’s got his first solo show coming up on the 6th August (on for a month) at the Electrik Sheep Gallery in Newcastle. I’m sure his limited edition prints will be selling fast, so if you live nearby, you should go check it out.