Time to channel some of your inner goth girl. This post goes out to all the over-dressed, over-made-up girls starting school today. Yes, you look awesome, but you look like you need a hug.
This is either one of those painters who hide their mediocre works from the world or one of those painters who can do no wrong. Even if you’re only a lover of texture or the collision of colors, you would do well to check out her web gallery.
She has some nifty fabric and lace art; but it’s her website design that I’m most impressed with. Pretty schpanky, if I do say so my own self.
You ever get the feeling collage artists are just messing with you? (They actually are.) They blithely deliver disparate images apparently haphazardly placed together on a page, creating a new whole. Yeah, there’s some WTF. But also a momentary little brain matter whisk.
OK, out of the realm of what I already knew was great and into the world I didn’t know was great until I saw it. These are done in tempera on canvas. Sort of like spilling egg on your jeans but in a very controlled way. (Not that I’ve ever done that.)
The wives and husbands of lifecasters must be very tolerant of models in their spouses’ studios. “Oh, hi, honey, I’m just smearing Vaseline and Geltrate over this mostly nekid person who is not you for Art’s sake. Don’t mind me.”
Hmm . . . Best job ever? Mebe.
These. Are. Hil. Arious. Yeah, yeah, I have a slightly macabre sense of humour. But Ms. Harrison’s figurines made my day.
This guy has an artistic Midas touch. If he even looks at a canvas sideways, it turns into a rockin’ great image.