Check out The Canvas Project … it’s a collection of classic artworks with a modern twist. My fave has to be the fancy lady doodling on the window….her face says “come get me, bitch!”, but the posture is more like an elegant lady who lunches with Sir Earl Grey. Anywho, so many …
Read More »Haunting Paintings by Stephen Mackey
Artist Stephen Mackey creates Victorian paintings with an indelible twist that is sure to make people look twice. With titles like “Coven for One” and”Stepmother with Scissors”, the paintings conjure images of the macabre and the freakish. One thing that never escape his works are the images of woodland creatures and …
Read More »Babyface
Holy ten head! Chinese artist Wang Zhijie paints these girls with huge ass eye and foreheads as wide as RiRi for his latest collection. I, personally, love it. It’s like a gamine alien going to a rave. Fascinating! I’m gonna have to make these baby faces my screensaver. photos: Hi-Fructose
Read More »Flesh for Fantasy
With a name like, Victoria Reynolds, you’d think she’s sipping Earl Grey tea from bone china in the salon of her manor accompanied by a Persian cat that looks like a damn professor. (Okay, that’s really just me except the salon is our TV room strewn with legos and the …
Read More »The Art of Xue Wang
Check out these cool paintings by Xue Wang. I love these melancholy, effed up sort of paintings that are mixed with sweetness. I do have to mention that these look a bit Mark Ryden-ish, which is a good thing since I love love love Mark Ryden. What draws me to …
Read More »Veggie Art
I’m not sure who the artist is behind this, but dayum!… this is great. As you may have noticed the first ‘painting’ is “The Son of Man” aka the painting of the dude getting totally photo-bombed by an apple. The second ‘painting’ is one of those creepy, disfigured Picasso faces. …
Read More »Happy Trees and Monsters and Zombies
Look at the frolicking monsters amongst the happy trees and happy seas! This is exactly what Bob Ross would’ve thrown into his paintings if PBS would let him, dammit. Artist Oujbl (which remains anonymous) takes the fugliest 1970’s thrift shop paintings and enhances them with fun sea creatures …
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