Shannon Bonatakis takes a blood oath to keep painting creating colorful women with thin necks and oversized heads. Shown above: The Fear of Forgetting or of Being Forgotten. I couldn’t resist posting one more of her images, read the rest of the entry to see her take on the old lady whispering “Hush”.
Although nearly unvaried in theme, and blatant their use of symbols, it’s worth spending some time with one of Brian Viveros‘ smoking ladies. Take in her finely detailed tattoos, her over-painted eyes, her beautiful skin marked with cuts and streaks. Let her enchant you, then let her go.
by R. S. Connett.
by psychedelic color machine and master of presumably ironic or parody display blatantly overused cheesy symbolism Oliver Hibert.
Once insanely famous, now mostly forgotten 16th century Italian painter Guiseppe Archimboldo painted fruit people, including the woman above, known as “Summer” and one of four seasonal depictions.
Dave MacDowell mashes up Jules Winnfield and Eraserhead. The result is more violet, more violent.
By Aurel Schmidt.
If you remember Richard Scarry at all, it’s probably as an illustrator of cute bunnies for kids books. What you may not recall, if you ever knew, is that Scarry was an extraordinary painter as well. He created illustrations which went well beyond the simple line drawings of his Storybooks. Shown above is an illustration I scanned from The Rooster Struts, a book which also features stunning well executed paintings of monkeys, sloths and frogs.
A perspective drawing by streetpainter.
by Ryan Heshka.
a painted toy from Jason Jacenko.
A shark in my soup, by Apostolos Porsanidis.
