Matt Peppler’s Awesome Illustrations

Michigan-based artist Matt Peppler’s gorgeous illustrated posters are a celebration of life and every aspect of it. He creates his works freehand using sharpie markers, which he then color edits and works on in Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator, infusing them with dynamism and energy. Peppler says that his works include lot of pop culture references and his own personal artistic viewpoints.

After graduating high school in the year 2000, Peppler was studying for a business degree before he was drawn to his true calling. Building upon the foundations of his innate talent, he graduated in 2006 with a bachelor’s degree in Fine Arts from the Kendall College of Art of Design. He considers Frank Miller, Andy Warhol and Shephard Fairey to be among his influences.

You can buy prints of his artwork at his Etsy store and Estoy Merchandise.

Link to the artist’s site | Tumblr.

•  18 June 2013

New York-based artist and designer, Nathan Manire (previously), who excels at conjuring evocative portraits using squiggly shapes, simple lines and even alphabets, is now back with a series of pointillist art. In his series, Manire deconstructs zoomed photographs into pixels and dots.

Eschewing oil paints which are usually the preferred medium of choice for creating such art, Manire has used watercolors to bring his beautiful dot art paintings to life. Manire says that he is constantly trying to find new methods to create portraits, and enjoys working in watercolor and pen most of the time.

Link to Nathan Manire’s site.

•  12 June 2013  •  3 notes

brain-food:

Photos from the set of Metropolis (1927, dir: Fritz Lang), taken by brother-in-law, Horst von Harbou

•  10 June 2013  •  624 notes

Killer Allergies: An Art Zine by Mexican Artist Alfonso de Anda

Alfonso de Anda, an interdisciplinary artist from Guadalajara, Mexico, sent in some art and a promotional video for his new art zine.

Limited to a run of only 300 signed and numbered copies, the zine will have 32 pages of awesome grayscale illustrations inside its 2 ink offset-printed covers.

Link to Alfonso de Anda’s site.

•  27 May 2013  •  2 notes

Artist Phil Hansen Will Turn Your Inspiring Stories into Art

Many of us have limitations, both self-made as well as ones that we were born with, that sometimes hold us back. And then there are those of us, who despite the greatest difficulties, try to reach our full potential.

Multimedia artist Phil Hansen (previously here, here and here) wants to know about your past limitations. Hansen is looking for people to call him on 651-321-4996, and share their stories.  He will then write the collective stories onto a 9ft. x 13 ft. canvas, and create a pointillist piece that is made entirely of text. You can can watch and read as each story is being written onto the canvas via the live feed on his site.

Share your story by calling or submitting it online at Phil Hansen’s site.

•  27 May 2013  •  4 notes

ruineshumaines:

Camera Obscura by Abelardo Morrell.

•  23 May 2013  •  1,777 notes

Preview of Original Artwork From Spoke Art’s Upcoming Weekend Exhibits

This weekend, the Spoke Art gallery will be participating and exhibiting artworks at two fine art fairs in San Francisco – ArtPad SF and ArtMrkt San Francisco.

The exhibits will include new and recent works by the following  artists: Alessandra Maria, Casey Weldon, Dan Speight, Derek Weisberg, Crystal Wagner, Erik Jones, Jessica Hess, Joel Daniel Phillips, Scott Hove, Soey Milk, Tatiana Suarez.

Spoke Art will also have two new exclusive limited edition prints by Scott Scheidly and Erik Jones, at the shows.

•  17 May 2013  •  2 notes

Marco Mahler’s 3D Printed Kinetic Sculptures

Marco Mahler (previously), an artist and musician based in Portland, Oregon, has released a new collection of kinetic sculptures on his site, which were created in a collaborative effort with Henry Segerman, a research fellow in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Melbourne. Mahler claims that these are the first fully 3D printed mobile sculptures in the world.

Made out of laser sintered nylon plastic – one of the most popular materials used for 3D printing – the intricately designed mobiles come out of the printers in a completely assembled state, and are heatproof up to 80 °C / 176 °F.

•  17 May 2013  •  6 notes

This is the Tumblr of JazJaz.net, a blog about art, pop culture, photography and design.

If you want to be featured on my blog, you can submit your artworks, photographs and videos here. You can also submit your art here on Tumblr itself.

•  12 May 2013  •  2 notes

Quirky Character Designs by Lena Matveichuk

Lena Matveichuk is a Saint Petersburg, Russia-based illustrator, painter, and designer. She says that she likes to draw and create different characters, and adds that she makes them more complete by using her thoughts and feelings which arise in her mind during the process.

•  9 May 2013  •  8 notes