Welcome to 2014, where we hashtag our feelings and upload our work. Nothing is sacred, nothing is static—even, dare we say, art. But then we meet artists like Eddie Perrote, artists who wholly embody their work with integrity and license that no web presence can mimic.
To your left, a latex-smooth bunny drips liquid-like colors, her amplified eyes literally beaming with exaggerated life; to your right, an ice cream cone, propped up in stilettos, her tongue wagging to one side for added balance. Welcome to the eccentric world of illustrator Hattie Stewart.
Nick Bahula has spent the majority of his life living with and observing the intricacies of nature. His work has the traditional air of tightly rendered nature illustrations but with a highly emotional range of surreal metaphorical themes.
Donned with flaws and fine detail, Carla Fuentes’ illustrations pull the eye in an honest direction, accentuating the otherwise lost beauties of an imperfect existence. For the Spanish-bred illustrator, the perceived strangeness of normality has a constant sway on her work, calling out idealism with reality in a surprising and beautiful manner.
Setting soft and supple nudes and unorthodox portraits against seemingly textured backgrounds, Haines utilizes the tension between abstraction and realism to appease his own inner dichotomies and create art that expresses emotional complexities.
Featuring fried eggs on toast, and hip ladies munching on donuts while walking down the street, McRae’s works have a vaguely feminine feel to them and an underlying element of the transient.
Australia artist Susanna Rose Sykes bears the female form in an honest and psychedelic style that we simply can’t get enough of. With a schooling in both fashion and illustration, Sykes teams the two with traces of alternative coming-of-age to create ingenious candid characters floating through the void between adolescence and adulthood—that in-between realm of radical ups and downs.
Andres creates psychedelic highs and lows, a visual depiction of the beats in his headphones driving his process where it needs to go. His is a labor of mediation, drawing from life and the unlikely sites and sounds it mashes together.
San Francisco's Acid Bath has released his second book that not only comes in a beautifully bound hard and softcover form, but serves as a distinct look into the chromatic inner workings of Acid Bath's artistic mind.
There's nothing more intriguing to us than getting an invitation into the inspired spaces and studios of the artists that continue to impress us with their creative ingenuity and inspire our readers and future endeavors. For this In the Studio special, we hang with Los Angeles based artist, Tatiana Velázquez AKA TeeVee Art, before the highly motivated painter took off for Europe to spread her art through Amsterdam and Spain.
The mind of an illustrator is an immersed and fervent mind, picking at life's inspirations to recreate the better half; retelling stories to feed our curiositie... Read More...
