Farmidable  art, design, illustration and other nice things

Thanks to Kevin Davis for sending me a link to his illustration blog. Kevin is currently studying illustration but already has a lot of great pieces. Including this fantastic bird pattern.

It's great when after searching the web a bit you land on something like Betsy Walton's work. Betsy is a native Kansan that now lives in Portlandia as an artist for hire. She draws inspiration from byzantine icon paintings, american folk art, and geometric abstraction so you're not going to see her just putting birds...

Alice Wellinger is a self taught illustrator living in Austria I really enjoy her sense of color and it's great to see the brush in her pieces. The texture she incorporates in her backgrounds makes them feel timeless. Like all of her pieces, second image, titled Can't Stop Talking Nonsense, is great conceptually and fun...

A special thank you to Sergio Membrillas, who sent me a link to his portfolio about two weeks ago. Sorry I didn't get to posting it until now Sergio. I'm so Glad you sent me the link. Sergio's work is clever, a little bit cute and a lot of fun. In this digital age it's...

My friend and talented fellow illustrator, Kim Rosen, posted a great Sufboard she just did for Billabong. Kim has a unique style and a great sense of texture, movement and emotion. See more of her work including her patterns on her website.

Lu Cong is a young, talented American portrait artist who was born in Shanghai China in 1978. Making him around the same age as me. To avoid attending medical school Cong moved from Mississippi, where his family settled to Denver. Cong's models are all almost women and all have a similar look about them. In...

I'm thankful that Illustrator, graphic novelist, Koren Shadmi sent me an email pointing out his portfolio. I love his flowing lines and saturated textured color giving his work a slight eastern quality. Shadmi was born in Israel and worked there for a number of years before moving to New York. His first graphic novel...

Daehyun Kim, also known as moonassi, studied oriental painting at at Hongik Univeristy in Seoul, South Korea. Moonassi's drawings are small scale surrealist interpretations of simple events and feelings. All the drawings involve human figures drawn the same way representing the every day, mundane human. All the drawings are in black and white. The delicateness...

I just re-watched the 1992 Lord of the Flys film a few weeks ago after our pastor worked it into one of his sermons. Later, searching around for something to post I re-discovered Darren Booth. He has a really nice set of what seem to be self directed classic book covers which includes Lord of...

Alexander Wells is a recent graduate from the University of Westminster with a degree in illustration. Alex has a strong consistant style not often seen in a young illustrator. I was happy to see his cover of Mikhail Bulgakov's Master and The Margarita featuring the demon cat, Begemot, in cat size instead on man sized...

I was so T.O.'d after the end of Dexter session four that I haven't watched the new session. I may never watch the show again. Poor Rita, poor poor Rita. Anyway I came across these great Dexter inspired posters by Ty Mattson