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While at the Museum of Fine Arts Boston to see the Antonio López García exhibition I also meandered into the Asian Art area and saw an exhibit about the Art of Sumo Wrestling Art. Most the images were woodblock prints. These two images (shown above) were my favorites. Especially the cute smile on the wrestler in the second image. Reminds kinda looks like a pale skinned friendly Incredible Hulk. If you want to see photos of real live sumo, by Frantisek Staud, click here. It’s well worth it.

Update on the antlers pattern in the works, this time with extra moose!  Click slice for larger image,

Julia Rothman is an illustrator and designer living in Brooklyn, NY. She’s got some amazing pattern work. Spending a bit of time on her site is well worth it. Julia also behind the blog, Book By Its Cover, where she shares books she likes and has collected over the years, sketches of her work and selections from the sketchbooks of other artists. You could spend hours looking at it all.

Check out these and other cool sculptures by Mike Rea made entirely from wood. Show here are a wooden drum set, a wooden M-16, and a replica of the Ark of the Covenant. Visit the site to see a time machine, a wood-mech suit for Stephen Hawking, a set of wooden power tools, a space capsule, and other things not generally encountered in wooden form. Rae claims to build everything from memory and eschews any sort of planning; this explains the cartoonish vaguely over-sized scale of everything. [via Fecal Face]

I recently saw a great Antonio López García exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts Boston. Antonio López García is a Spanish painter and sculptor. His work is very detailed, a little spooky and a lot amazing. Here are some pictures of the giant baby heads that he created, installed outside the front entrance of the Museum and here is a link to video about him and his work. Seeing the paintings in person gave me a different view of him than the video. He is meticulous but he’s also very free and loose in areas of his paintings. Something you can really only see up close.

Here’s an update on this pattern we’ve got in the works…

Sorry it took so long to get this one out. My Mac was out of service for four and a half days. This illustratated pattern came right out of the Farmidable sketchbook and is a tribute to Indian artist Nandalal Bose. The download file contains three versions, an orange, a red (which is pink) and a not for cowards yellow. Hope you enjoy. Click here to download it in our gallery.

Recently had the chance to catch up with an old classmate, Dana Woulfe, at RISD, where we both spoke to a class about illustration and design. Dana in involved with Project SF, an international artist collective featuring some great artists and designers. Check it out.

A few things about Jean Espezial: One: they’ve got a great looking new site (well, new to me, I haven’t checked in a while…but I think it’s actually legitimately new). The gallery is especially (or is it espezially…) cool, with some great filter-driven animated effects. Two: the new site has a bio section, which nicely explains that Jean Espezial is, in fact, a collective. You see, all along I’ve been under the impression that Jean Espezial was simply one prolific person, and I suppose it’s a bit a relief that it takes 7 people to produce so much great work. And this brings me to Three: there’s a ton of great stuff in the gallery. I’ve posted a few selections above, but take a little time and pick through everything.

We’ve been working a lot on this new desktop wallpaper illustration and planned to have it finished by today, but alas, it’s not quite there yet. Who new building an entire city would take so long? In the mean time we still have some great wallpaper tiles in our gallery.

If you’re ever in the Design District of San Diego check out Igloo. The Chalkboard Skateboard is great, and the shop keeper will tell you all about the Design District, where to get good eats and where to see great art, design and illustration, which is what Farmidable is all about.

Also, we’ll be releasing a new pattern on Monday. Make sure you check back!