James Maybe

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.

by Kenny Scharf.

by Robert LaDuke.

I like this work by Skot Olsen quite a bit. He uses a portrait studio, dramatic background and realistic (but not hyper-realistic) style in his painting of the taught-faced, uneven-eyed Ed Leedskalnin, a Latvian-born eccentric who built the largest coral castle in southern Florida.

By Charlie Immer.

A work in stained glass by Judith Schaechter.

Medeline von Foerster holds hands with the future in this wonderfully composed painting, The Promise.