Art Bits IV
Sunday, April 4th, 2010 at 7:18 amKate D. MacDowell, hearts for porcelain pitcher-plant heart, artist’s site here
Sarina Brewer’s custom creature taxidermy — fantasy creatures and more
Howie Tsui’s horror fables, artist’s site here
Dan May — I adore these paintings of moments in the lives of strange, soft monsters. Artist’s site here has many more images. Originals and prints available here.
David Chaim Smith — intensely detailed images referring to alchemy and the Kabbalah, and philosophical/metaphysical writings.
Chambres d’amour, chambres d’enfer — I especially like the first, grassy one by Bernard Faucon
April 5th, 2010 at 4:55 am
Man, paintings in the style of those soft monsters always make me seriously unnerved – I feel like I’m drugged and under threat just looking at them.
I love the series of chambres, though! Especially the first and the one with the woman climbing into the canopy.
Have a set of 19th-century Japanese illustrations of wizened mermaids in return?
http://pinktentacle.com/2009/12/19th-century-mermaid-illustrations/
April 6th, 2010 at 9:24 am
And I want to snuggle up with them. Which is how I got eaten by monsters and you didn’t.
I like the fourth mermaid, with the white face — she looks kind of hungover, or washed up (literally).