Received an email informing that my (another) commissioned custom piece is done. There are still a couple of things to settle beforehand.
Having not been around and well-informed of the art scene for long enough, I first came across Andy Kehoe's works through a fellow collector, lordlupus and getting all awed with the few original paintings he has managed to acquire.
Since then, I have slowly grow to like Andy's works. I love how the colours work well with his abstracts. Moreover, I love more how affordable his prints are. It is always a good thing to follow an uprising artist rather than an already well-established one, when it comes to affordability.
I realized that at the end of the day, I must say that I would very much prefer hand-painted drawings as compared to drawings that are 'digitalized' (in which, I started off very much liking SHAG's works way earlier on). Personally, I feel there is more ample space for your imagination to go wild and free when looking at original hand-painted drawings/paintings.
I became even more indulged when sleepboy featured Andy Kehoe on his blog, plus that he acquired an original piece entitled 'Humanity Bleeds' which I absolutely love.
Currently contemplating about purchasing two prints, most likely 'Humanity Bleeds' and 'New Beginnings' which was just released couple of days back. Definitely not the ones that feature death, not my kind of thing.
Kathie Olivas has an upcoming solo show at Gallery 1988 San Francisco from 29th February - 22nd March featuring paintings, sculptures, custom vinyl figures and prints.
A beautiful line of custom pieces, of which most are original sculpts and of relatively large sizes are shown on the preview list. The paintings are simply amazing but shall mainly focus on checking out her custom pieces; the part of her works that I particular adore and absolutely mesmerized with.
Online preview here
News has it that Kathie Olivas, Brandt Peters, Colin Christian & Sas Christian will be making their way to the UK for two events, namely the ATP Music festival outside of London from May 9th - 11th and May 17th at the Richard Goodall Gallery in Manchester.
Shall try to make it to the RGG. Expect lots of paintings, drawings, prints, & vinyls!
And good to see big name artists mass-producing toys of their own and now Kathie Olivas with her Scavengers Mini Figures in blind boxes above. Now everyone can own a KO piece.
Also noticed that Nicoletta Ceccoli is doing a show at RGG as well in December.
Congratulations to the good Doktor A on his first production pieces, the Mechtorians. It's about time, Dok!
Steampunk-style willl always be my favourite type of custom.
The photo is of the prototype resins, painted by Doktor A himself.
More information to come...
Always a big fan of the Vespa. Extremely excited when I got to see that many in my trips to Europe. Don't own a motorcycle license YET, but I do intend to later on.
"The Vespa (which means “wasp” in Italian) has evolved from a single model motor scooter manufactured in 1946 by Piaggio & Co. S.p.A. of Pontedera, Italy -- to a full line of scooters and one of seven companies today owned by Piaggio -- now Europe's largest manufacturer of two-wheeled vehicles and the world's fourth largest motorcycle manufacturer by unit sales.
No other product in history has taken humiliation, destruction and poverty and made them the stuff of dreams. Despite 20,000 mechanical changes, 120 different models and total sales of more than 16 million, it is still recognisable the same machine as the one that made its debut in April 1946.
Inside, though, everything has changed: the old two-stroke engine, as responsive and peppy as it was noisy and polluting, has given way to a clean, quiet four-stroke; the transmission is automatic. The can't tamper with the look too much - they can only tease and titivate it, adding leather seats, fiddling with the shape of the handlebars... "
Read on here
Vespa official website
Mar Hernández aka Malota is one of my top illustrators/artists out there. I have not posted any entry on her yet mainly because I would like to do so once she is finished with a commission custom piece for me. Credits to sleepboy for introducting Mar's works through his commissioned custom Rolitoboy, done beautifully and elegantly.
"Malota loves music and draws in her moleskine while having coffee with friends. She has a deep obsession about the colors of her pieces, scrupulously working the color scheme until obtaining the tonalities that generate the sensations that she wants to transmit in each work. Another special interest to her is the symmetry present in most of her works, an axial symmetry that makes her characters look more static and blunt, strange and enigmatic. Aspects of geometry, tangram, and origami also hold great interest for Maltoa and are usually found in her work. Many individuals find oriental signs in Mar's work, due to the Japanese and Chinese culture that are such a source of inspiration for the artist. "
akiko postcards
Alberto Cerriteño is one of the few artists on my watchlist. There are heaps of artists/illustrators/designers out there in the world just waiting to be discovered and I just so happen to come across his works. I particular love his choice of colours, subtle dark tone with an impression of various natural earth.
"... a Mexican illustrator and designer based in Portland, Oregon, who has a distinctive character illustration style that draws on the influences of his native land"
Computer Arts
He recently collaborated on designing an illustration for a music video for Boston-based band Static of The Gods. The video shows distinctively his illustration style.
At long last, I can quit worrying about my black Petit Lapin of straying afar, lost in transaction. I was absolutely looking forward to see this piece up close. Hence, I was quite the happy puppy when I saw this at my door.I am not usually so much a big fan of house music as I used to many years ago. The only type of music I listen to at this point is pretty much lounge, jazz funk and jazz; low ambience slow paced down tempo music, so to speak.
However, Blue Six is quite an exception. Let the music speaks for itself.
"Blue Six--aka Jay Denes and guests--have built up a formidable reputation for crafting deep, textured and eminently soulful house music. Their consistently seductive productions have built up an almost cultish following among house fans who yearn for something a little deeper than traditional four to the floor club fare."
Sade - By Your Side (Blue Six remix)
This is a real good song, trust me. Ignore the young beautiful lady.
"The pitter-patter drum-beats, gentle guitar plucks, smooth bass and gentle propulsion of these tracks makes for a wonderful aura of well-being and optimism"
Blue Six site
There's that sun we rarely see, out shining brightly today. Just had to grab my petite digital camera out and take snapshots. Today, I chose the white geisha, seemingly looking happy with that smirk on her face.
"I should be happy"
"put your headphones on and meditate with me"
"Pins & Needles" at Thinkspace opened and featured works by Scott Radke & Kevin Titzer last friday, 8th February. I almost forgot about it, though I wouldn't be able to afford any, still I would like to see what his largest show to date has to offer.
Loving them though couple of them do spook me. Each individual piece gives me a different impression. That's the fun bit.
It's incredibly difficult to resist these intricate creatures/sculptures. I absolutely love a few chosen ones. Mainly because I can relate them to what I do at the moment.
"Mycobacterium" dimensions variable, various hardwoods and acrylic
(mounted on wall, but to me they resemble futuristic light-weight balloon structures on the ground)
"Solid, Liquid, Gas" dimensions variable, various hardwoods, acrylic and fishing line
Microbe, cedar and acrylic
(not so much on this one, it slightly creeps me. Probably because I hate multi-legged 'things')
Martin aka Angry Woebots is making it big this past 12 months, and I meant by real BIG. His artwork revolves around this particular panda, a bold fresh idea and everyone's diggin' it.
