Portraits created from layers of discs cut from paint swatches by San Francisco-based visual artist Peter Combe who sez of them:
These artworks transform and change subtly as the viewer shifts from his/her vantage point, there is a magic that occurs, a trick of the eye where color seems to occupy space—a void—at once ethereal, yet seen from another angle the whole appears as if a ghostly image, veiled in gossamer.
Paintings by Martin Fasting
A helpful illustrated guide from The Art Of Manliness, what sez:
Back in the days of the ancient Near East, both men and women wore flowing tunics. Around the tunic, they’d wear a belt or girdle. While tunics were comfortable and breezy, the hem of the tunic would often get in the way when a man was fighting or performing hard labor. So when ancient Hebrew men had to battle the Philistines, the men would lift the hem of their tunic up and tuck it into their girdle or tie it in a knot to keep it off the ground. The effect basically created a pair of shorts that provided more freedom of movement. Thus to tell someone to “gird up their loins” was to tell them to get ready for hard work or battle. It was the ancient way of saying “man up!”
Hyperreal pastel drawings applied directly onto wooden boards by Singapore based artist Ivan Hoo.
130 toys guns suspended on the roof of the Urban Institute for Contemporary Art in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
A pointed installation by artist Michael Murphy.
Pointed.
The fiesty typographic work of Dublin graphic designer Ronan Kelly.
Above: posters for DJ EZ, Li’l Silva and Grey Matter & KRL (for Junior Spesh club night in Dublin).
(H/T: Annie West)
Five year old Iris Grace , who has autism, only started painting last year but her impressionistic style has already been likened to the work of Monet. Her mum, Arabella Carter-Johnson sez:
I make up some cups of very watery paints, she chooses which one she would like to use and gets me to make more when she needs it and she mixes her own colours from mug to mug. Her autism has created a style of painting which I have never seen in a child of her age, she has an understanding of colours and how they interact with each other. Not only does painting lift Iris’s mood and help her engage with the world around her, but it also helps raise awareness of autism…”When you are a parent or a teacher of a child with autism and you are trying to interact with them you are constantly looking for ways to find that key that will allow you into their world,” says Iris’s mom. “For me seeing Iris’ love of painting was just that, a precious key.
Images from an upcoming book by Mike Doyle – a sequel to an earlier title Beautiful LEGO, called Beautiful LEGO 2: Dark. Featuring the work of 140 LEGO enthusiasts, the chapters have titles like Creepy Crawlers, Evil Attunement, Indulgences, Pits of Fire, and Riot Girls.
A lovingly detailed alternate title frame for Charles Schulz’s 1966 TV special by Dark Hall Mansion.
A recent mural in Williamsburg, NYC by Puerto Rican street artist Joshua Santos Rivera, aka Bikismo.
