Archive for the ‘2D’ Category
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Stranger Will, cover by committee
Much is said about the difference between art and product, between creative motivation and monetary motivation. I think that perhaps no medium bridges those two worlds better than the book cover, a visual meant to entice a person to experience the art within. But what is strange about any art ...
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“Lipstick and Rouge” At The Second Space Gallery
This month The Second Space gallery in Spokane, WA held its first ever juried show titled “Lipstick and Rouge”. The show’s title was to illicit the idea that color can portray emotion or be associated with a thought. Most of the work accepted seemed to hold true to the theme ...
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Alphonse Mucha
Awe, Alphonse Mucha. Beautiful flowing lines and organic bold colors that make me feel relaxed just by looking at them. He is slowly becoming one of my favorites. I love how is work usually has different borders within one piece and a mix of different shapes that give it balance.
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Jake | BRUTON STROUBE
Bruton Stroube is a photography studio composed of three photographers, Greg Stroube, Brandon Voges, and Eric Johnson (come on, Eric; change your last name to something crazy already). Most of the photography available on the Bruton Stroube website has commercial lean to it, but one series stuck out. Something strange ...
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Eye | STEVE WILSON
Anyone else get Earthworm Jim flashbacks when looking at this?
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The Elaborately Staged Work of Gregory Crewdson
Gregory Crewdson is a photographer who’s works echo some of the more elaborate scenes of past painted masterpieces. His work does strike out on its own with original concepts, yet still reminds me of Rembrant or Dali. The incredibly detailed scenes often depict suburban culture in a haunting fashion and ...
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i am here And You Are Gone book cover
When planning a cover design, one approach is to extract an image from the story and build upon it to reflect the narrative’s overall tone. Here, I felt as though I had no other option than to take this approach.
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The Hunter | DAN MAY
Dan May’s work is soft. Truly, that’s the best word I can use to describe it. His fanciful depictions feel painted in thin layers to give the final image a glow, a technique called sfumato, which Leonard DaVinci often used. I don’t know that May actually uses this technique, but ...
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Self Portrait As An Old Man/Josh Keyes
Josh Keyes has been featured in numerous publications as of late and is definitely one of the more prodigious and identifiable artists of the recent years. I admire both his technical skill and draftsmanship. The style here is almost illustration, but with more vibrance and depth. The iconography used in the ...
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cover of Perforated Heart | JASON HEUER
Perforated Heart, with it’s recessed perforations, is as close as a cover design can get before it transcends the 2D format. And when that happens, we get legitimate book art objects
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Joel Smith/ “It Is Acceptable To Sit Here …X”
Poetry doesn’t seem to be as popular as it used to be. Today if it isn’t coupled with music, it isn’t even accessible. As a result I have developed a formula. Well, we’ll call it that. It might actually be more accurate to describe it as a haphazard-habit. The “formula” ...
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Christmas Card From A Hooker In Minneapolis | SCOTT ALLEN
the abstracted elements of Waits’s forehead, his lanky frame, his seemingly physical dependence on the microphone, and his wardrobe all lend glorious credibility to Allen’s rendition.
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cover of Charactered Pieces: stories | CALEB J ROSS
To celebrate today’s release of my chapbook Charactered Pieces: stories from OW Press, I am going to get a bit ego-y and discuss my own work. Artjerk was set up to do just that, let us jerks discuss our own pieces (as well as the pieces of others, sure), but ...