“Willard Wigan makes me feel small and insignificant. Sure I can read, I write, and I can draw, but I cannot and never will be able to manipulate a material that i cannot see with my naked eye, but Willard can. He has mastered the art of invisibility and the art of misery.” – A. Halford
Grails
Aaron Horkey, 31, lives in Minnesota and produces hand-drawn illustrations with impeccable detail. Right now he doesn’t have an online portfolio, but a quick search unearths Gig Posters, Skateboard Designs, Album Art, and some fine art paintings. Enjoy some of the tightest illustration today.
Something Big
Stephanie Brown’s work bursts open and oozes onto the canvas. There is a richness that runs through her work, from the careful studies to the finished pieces.
Her natural, almost lazy, compositions stand in stark contrast to previous post, Joseph Rock’s, rigorous layouts. Where Rock was almost crushing us with unthinkable grandeur and scale, Stephanie’s work seems more content to let us languish in the inescapable viscera of life.
On the south shore of Koko Nor
These photographs may not be very exciting at a glance, but you should really take the time to get to know them. They are the work of ornithologist, ethnologist, botanist, and photographer Joseph Rock. Setting off in the 20′s, Rock traveled southwestern China for the better part of 30 years.
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Night Owl
Kim Cogan, born in 1977, in Pusan, Korea, is a San Francisco native known for his painterly depictions of Urban Landscapes. Kim provides a representational impression of the scene, inspired by a connection he shares with the surrounding environment. Here is a glimpse of his work and his words.
Cover featuring Braids (Tempera)
After picking up Andrew Wyeth | The Helga Pictures, I had to share some visual and literal highlights. First, here’s a little back story..
“The Helga Pictures” are a fantastic compilation of tempera and dry brush paintings, watercolours and pencil studies secretly created within a span of over fifteen years. Andrew Wyeth created over two hundred and forty individual works of neighbour Helga Testorf from 1971 to 1985 without telling a single person, including his wife. He stated that he would not have been able to have finished the project with everyone looking at it.
Same Field #14
Jackie Tileston’s work seems to defy rational explanation while hinting at a more meaningful internal logic. Her images use eastern iconography and copious negative space. She was kind enough to answer a few questions to give us a hint at the thought process behind the work.
Vacationland
I know suburban life a little too well, and Amy Bennett explores this world in her Neighbors series. She builds a set for each piece, examines different perspective options, then starts a painterly yet realistic depiction of this familiar realm. Her new series titled, At the Lake involves a lakefront diorama, where Amy is free to capture the essence of water (through resin) while still contributing to her narrative. Hope you enjoy these beautiful micro-managed worlds.
Mia Pearlman
Mia Pearlman’s work is a meditation on chance, control and the ephemeral nature of reality. The forms in her work exist on the brink of being and not being, free from physical constraint. Imaginary landscapes are shown frozen in mid-evolution, on the brink between contracting or expanding, solidifying or breaking apart. Her goal is to find the picture beyond the big picture, the space between the nucleus and the electron, the moment between creation and destruction.
