Inspiration is everywhere.

So I got caught up in a painting last night and missed the game altogether. I don’t know what it is but I have been finding the most amazing inspirational art all over the place lately, I just don’t have time for all of it. Short post today because I really should be catching up with my homework. Some new artists today! The first is Joey Chou, he is from Taiwan and California. His website is full of quite a range of really comic like work (which I LOVE) with lots of color as well as a bunch of traditional stuff. He has defiantly mastered quite a few styles. Some of the characters remind me so much of the animation in like, the emperors new groove or some disney movie like that.  OKay so a few of my favorites from his site below, you can check him out HERE.

 

The second artist is Alexis Mackenzie. Her current site is under construction so I couldn’t get a lot of information about her except that she is from San Francisco. But She does collages mainly, and I seem to be drawn to this stuff lately.  The link to her web page is HERE, but her flikr has quite a bit of her work- some of it is just so beautiful. So the link to that is HERE.  In the interview I read with her she talks about collages being something other than the typical, heres the excerpt. The whole interview is on Fecal Face.

“I always have a hard time describing my work, mainly because I feel like when I say that I make collages, people instantly get a mental picture of “collage” which is usually like, y’ know… more hodge-podge than what I do. This is a difficult question always. Well, I would describe them as sparingly composed and seamlessly put together. They usually feel quiet to look at. I think they are peaceful, which makes sense because I feel like when I’m working, I’m meditating; it’s very good for clearing my head of daily noise and clutter. They are generally depictions of ladies inhabiting and exploring a strange and beautiful world which is in a continual cycle of breaking down, decomposing, and giving way to new beautiful life. I like to combine elements from disparate ecosystems in order to accentuate their similarities, and to place things in a context which changes their function and relationship to the things around them. Surreal is one word for it. One thing that I strive for is to create things which are beautiful just to look at, and also rewarding to think about. That to me is what makes good art – accessible and challenging at the same time.”

Okay so I guess that wasn’t a short post. I just got caught up. Homework here I come. 

♥k.h.w.

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