Robot of the month club

Seattle based illustrator Christine Marie Larsen has a very nice little project going on: The Robot of the Month club - an annual subscription service that gets you a new robot print delivered to your door every month. She's been doing it for over two years now and has a great archieve of the paintings on her website, featuring robots often in very unexepected situations.


www.christinelarsen.com

Super person of the week: Alex Ross

Alex Ross was probably the first artist to "paint" a comic (certainly the first one in the mainstream circle) and today is considered one of the world’s most preeminent and well-respected comic book artists around. His first big project in the comic industry was "Marvels", the book through which I discovered this work and was totally blown away by its hyper-realistic quality and how well it worked on the comic book format.

Over 15 years after the "Marvels" debut, his work has been on dozens of book covers and pages on several publishers including DC, Marvel, Warner, Dynamite and Wizard.



www.alexrossart.com

Angelique Houtkamp

Angelique Houtkamp has done a bit of everything, she started her artistic career as a tattooist, has worked as a dressmaker, make-up artist and bartender, ran her own jewellery company, played in bands, designed shoes, handbags and even wallpaper. But it's her paintings that make it for me, her paintings are heavily inspired by traditional old school tattoo imagery, but still full of originality and easily recognizable as her own.

www.salonserpent.com

Brian Despain's new show available online

Brian Despain has a new exhibition along with John Brophy opening tonight in Seattle and the whole show is also available to be viewed online. Thank you to Roq La Rue Gallery for making it so.

www.despainart.com
www.roqlarue.com

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Super person of the week: Audrey Kawasaki

Audrey Kawasaki is well  known for her portrayals of young, beautiful girls in a very distinctive style that has been described as a fusion of Manga and Art Nouveau. Generally using oil on wooden canvas, her paintings strike as dreamy, delicate imagery that live in a world of their own. She's  had her work published in a few books, designed book covers, gelaskins and has had more exhibitions than I could count.

Her online journal is frequently updated with pictures of new work, pieces in progress and information about shows.

www.audrey-kawasaki.com
www.myspace.com/audreykawa
i-seldom-do.livejournal.com

Super person of the week: Jim Woodring

I don't even know where to start on Jim Woodring. His work is one of a kind. Surreal and dreamlike, often wordless and visually astonishing, it portraits weird worlds, anthropomorphic and odd shaped characters in whimsically strange situtations.

With his first publications dating back from the early eighties, there's tons available these days, from the excellent large collection of books on fantagraphics, some japanese publications and limited runs on presspop to prints, original paintings and vinyl toys.

www.jimwoodring.com

Super person of the week: Sam Flores

Heavily influenced by his graffiti background, Sam Flores' current fine art work is instantly indentifiable. Working with canvas, walls, furniture, vinyl toys, clothing lines and skateboard desings, he has estabilished his place in the modern art movement in San Francisco along the likes of Jeremy Fish, Mike Giant and Shepard Fairey. Something in the water, they say...

www.samflores.com