strange and beautiful drawing

Pen and ink drawing by UrbanBones.

painting by Bbijann

I love the composition and the use of colour.
Check out Bbijann's Deviant Art profile to see more of his work.

my friend Henrik Hedinge is making the news with is performance art

I'm so excited to see Henrik's art featured in newspapers! Internet fame is fantastic, but newspaper-fame is more a part of real tangible life somehow. This is only a couple of recent articles, I know he's been featured several times before. I'm so impressed with the way he manages to get himself out there as an artist, he's so good with media, finding places to show his art, and finding other artists to network with. He's done performances worldwide! It's been good fun following his work since I got to know him. I've seen him doing live performances a couple of times, and it's been such cool experiences. Henrik's art is way far out and heavy with theory - yet he somehow manages to not be pretentious and alienating, but engages the audience in what he's doing no matter what their background is.



Some of Henrik's newer work deals with gender-flux. Good stuffs.
Check out his blog to see more of his art: http://henrikhedinge.blogspot.com/
I will also post some of my favourite works of his at some point.
Henrik and I did ArtProjectMjøsa2008 together, and I think ArtProjectMjøsa2010 would be a good thing to do was well..

flesh tones painted by Hedda Gjerpen

http://www.gjerpen.com/

body painting by Chelsea Rose

Chelsea Rose mainly paints ornamental, psychedelic figures on canvas, and she calls them "Spirit Paintings". She has recently done a lot of body painting sessions, and I think her style of painting and her theme of Spirit Paintings works really well on live models.






This is Chelsea Rose with her Spirit Paintings. I like how nice they all look together at her stand, and the fact that she offers face and body painting as well. She has a very distinct style in everything she does. I kind of envy people who have found Their Thing, and has managed to narrow down their artsy interest into a very specific thing.

Chelsea Rose has a beautiful website for her art: http://www.chelsearosearts.com/

She also blogs: http://lucidrose.blogspot.com/
I find it interesting to get a behind the scenes look at how other creative people go about their creativeness, and Chelsea Rose's blog is a good example of this.

Chelsea Rose's Etsy shop: http://www.etsy.com/shop/lucidopticlab

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My Baby Just Cares For Me by Ali Mahdavi

renaissance bodies

A lot of John Currin's work is vulgar, some of it is ironic while also referencing the old masters. I'm not too interested in the more vulgar paintings he makes, but I like how he has drawn inspiration from the renaissance painter Lucas Cranach the elder when painting the bodies in this painting:


I've always liked to look at how the body has been represented in art through the ages- the old masters really painted a lot of interestingly shaped bodies.

Spot Portraits by Timothy Cummings

I'm getting more and more interested in seeing/making art with lots of dots and patterns on the subjects. I like how making patterns on the subject can both take away from the subject, cover it up and at the same time add something to it, make it something different or even more like itself. Also the end result is often very mad and busy, and that is a bonus in itself;)

I love Timothy Cumming's Spot Portraits, I like how the patterns are sometimes like tattoos and decorations, sometimes like some kind of disease, and other times like they've been painted on, totally covering and obliterating the subject.





The fact that I love this painting proves that I never fully got over my teen angst:









I know I posted lots of paintings, but there's still more! See more spot portraits here: http://www.daboragallery.com/spotportraits.html

painting by Watanuki Ryo

See more of this artist's work here.

painting by Yugo Kohrogi

It's a banal thing to comment on, but I like the use of colours in this painting.


SO can this classify as portrait painting, or what?

portrait painting by Will Wilson

Batwoman

By Albert Joseph Penot, ca 1890.


He he, such a gothic painting!

painted portrait by Tone Thunberg

I like how the background is reduced to blocks of colours - it's a nice contrast (and brings attention to) the intricate retro floral pattern on the girl's top that also continues on the piece of fabric behind her (curtain? piece of clothing??(do you love brackets like I do?)).

paintings by Julie Zarate (six06)

I discovered this artist on Flickr and immediately fell in love with her stylized iconic lady-portraits. The combination of bright white faces, as if they're masks, and blood red with pitch black and golden tones is very dramatic. I like how in some of her paintings, the faces are painted in with skeleton face painting, it reminds me of Día de los Muertos, and that is always a good thing (remember, I'm a goth and all that).

Aww look at her black skeleton hole painted nose, isn't it great?:

I love ornamental hair like in this painting:


Check out the artist's website.

an old painting of mine

I didn't like this painting when I made it, but now I do and I wonder where it is. I either sold it or gave it away.

oil on canvas

Eva paints Eve

One of two commission oil paintings I've been working on recently.

paintings by Anya Janssen

Oil paintings on canvas.. . I'm thinking of something clever to say, but all I can think of is this: :o <- that's my expression when looking at the paintings.








I think I just got myself a new favourite painter ;)

www.anyajanssen.com

cat etchings by Ola Steen

I've been covering my drawings with blobs and spots lately, just like Ola Steen has done in these etchings. Tons of spots can transform a normal looking drawing into a mad psychedelic confusing thing(and that is obviously something we want, isn't it!?). Ola Steen works with old fashioned methods to make prints (etching) and takes care in selecting the paper and I think it gives his work an extra depth. Not that I don't love Photoshop or wish that I lived in the past, - and hey, I love polished, glossy computer-made art.. But I love art with a bit of grittiness to it even more.


This kitty is feeling especially sneaky and clever about something:

Cuddle-cat is smiling before and after cuddles:

Awww drowsy-puss has melancholy in it's eyes:


I need more cats in my life.

tentacle engravings by Dan Hillier

Phillipa Fioretti (her blog / Twitter ) sendt me a message on Twitter a while ago saying she had a look at the pictures on my site and thought I might like the altered engravings of Dan Hillier. I'm very pleased when people show me amazing things they think I'll like- and especially through Twitter, because it sort of justifies the fact that I have a Twitter account.

I'm also pleased when the things I'm shown has tentacles and look like Victorian monsters.








www.danhillier.com = Dan Hillier's art, info on how to buy- and even some pages from his sketchbook.

I've had more ace things recommended by my readers lately(and not so lately.. the type of lately that was a while ago), but have been too lazy busy to post it for everyone's enjoyment. I'll get to it sooner or later.