Mark Ryden

Greg "Craola" Simkins

Craola is one of my favorite artists in the pop surrealist movement. He walks the like between cute and disturbing using the animals, foods, and pop culture icons that kindle his imagination.

Guy Laramee

Creates landscapes and 3d sculptures using groupings of books. carves out areas of the books to create mysterious and beautiful pieces.

Edgar Mueller

Edgar Mueller

Mueller grew up in the rural city of Straelen on the western edge of Germany. He is a street artist painting huge pieces of work on the street where others can observe the piece and even become part of the piece

I think my favorite part about Mueller is the fact that his pieces are on display for the general public. Instead of having his pieces locked up in a museum where you have to pay to enter, Mueller is fine with just having his work out there for others to see. I also like the fact that you can get "on" the piece making for some interesting pictures.

Art Share: Markus Reugels

 Reugels takes high speed shots of water which he drops from a set up shown at the bottom. Using colored lights as well as ink in some cases, he creates colorful and unique designs.

These are the two set ups which he has designed though he continues to alter them for different shots. He creates the "tools" with which he makes the splashes he then photographs.

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Bren Luke has some really gorgeous line work and cross hatching:

I'm a big fan of Maurice Denis

I'm really into annunciation paintings. Here are some faves:

Duccio 1311

   Simone Martini 1333

Domenico Veneziano 1445

I don't really like the text in David Kramer's (http://www.artspace.com/david__kramer) work but his guache/ink/watercolor? work is really nice.

Some scrambled faves:

Blutch

Cecily Brown

Leela Corman

Georges de Feure

Lynd Ward

Lyonel Feininger

Charles Burns

Yoshitomo Nara

Salomón Huerta

Salomón Huerta

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Huerta was born in Tijuana, Mexico 1965. 

He is currently 49 years old, and worked at Paulson Bott Press.

He moved to LA to study art and went to both UCLA and Art Center.

Below is some of Huerta’s earlier work from the late 90’s.

The pieces are lithographs. Lithography is an extremely common printing technique that involves transferring ink from a polymer plate onto paper.

 Above are two of Huerta's series with several prints of different colors of: the backs of heads and simple suburban architecture.

I love Huerta's work for its cleanliness and simplicity, and for the skill of printing and choice of color that results in soft yet vibrant prints.

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