Despite the absence of formal art education, few things were spared from serving as my canvas. Drawing became a childhood obsession turned into my lifelong passion. My specific love of sequential art birthed with the purchase of my first American comic book – Uncanny X-Men #271. While attending college for a marketing degree, I continued [...]
January 7, 2012
CREATURES by NICHOLAS MYERS
Nicholas Myers is an artist whose talents cover a wide spectrum, and I was hard pressed at picking my favorites from his galleries. So I decided to go with a theme that best showcases his imagination, simply titled CREATURES. ABOUT NICHOLAS MYERS: I am a stubborn idealist. I refuse to believe that we are better off [...]
January 7, 2012
Willard Wigan’s Nannosculpture Needle Eye Sized Art
As a child with undiagnosed dyslexia, Willard Wigan was ridiculed in class by his primary school teachers for not learning to read. Wigan attributes his early drive in sculpting, begun at the age of five years, to his need to escape from being ridiculed by teachers and classmates. Wigan has since been on a quest [...]
January 4, 2012
THE HERMIT AND THE WISHING WELL
Once upon a time, when the land was free There lived by the river, in an old oak tree, A crazy old hermit who spent his time Making up riddles and speaking in rhymes. Now, people knew of him from miles around, They thought him wise and his mind sound, So they would seek him [...]
December 30, 2011
CELTIC VISIONS BY ZAWART
Darek “Dexter” Zawiazalec is a traditional artist from Poland who does remarkable work with ink on wood and paper. Visit Darek’s gallery at deviantART to view more by this talented artist. http://zawart.deviantart.com/
December 17, 2011
The Photography of Charles Dowd
Photography; a medium that stops time in its tracks, capturing minute details of the present, forever offering the future a glimpse into the past. The lens of a camera misses nothing, bringing into focus a view of the world that may otherwise go unseen by the naked eye. Photography is more than just snapping a [...]
December 13, 2011
WOLF DREAMS by AYOUB KHOTE
This collection of short stories includes a little sci-fi, a lot of fantasy, and a touch of the supernatural. In these pages, you will travel through a mysterious door and find that the world is a duality, open an innocent book and have your life turned upside down, wake up to a world that is [...]
December 10, 2011
The Imaginings Of Joshua Swanagon
“My name is Joshua Swanagon and I have been an artist for as long as I can remember. It was my love for art that gave me a lifelong drive to find a way to be more than just a starving artist but to make my art lucrative while still being enjoyable. Over the years [...]
December 1, 2011
The Artwork And Illustrations Of Duncan Long
Duncan Long has created book cover artwork and illustrations for HarperCollins, Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine, PS Publishing, Pocket Books, Solomon Press, American Media, Ilex, ISFiC Press, Moonstone Books, Fort Ross, Enslow Publishers, and many other publishers and self-publishing book authors. He has been selected by the Collaborative Summer Library Program as a featured illustrator for [...]
November 22, 2011
Albrecht Durer
Albrecht Durer (1471 – 1528) was a German painter, printmaker and theorist from Nuremberg. His still-famous works include the Apocalypse woodcuts, Knight, Death, and the Devil (1513), Saint Jerome in his Study (1514) and Melencolia I (1514), which has been the subject of extensive analysis and interpretation. His watercolours mark him as one of the [...]
November 17, 2011
The Q’ntana Trilogy by Mark David Gerson
The Q’ntana Trilogy is an ambitious trio of fantasy books and feature films by screenwriter and award-winning author Mark David Gerson, in the tradition of J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings and C.S. Lewis’s The Chronicles of Narnia.The first of the three stories is The MoonQuest, a must for any lover of stories [...]
November 16, 2011
BUTTERSWORD
What is ButterSword? (Not to be confused with What is a ButterSword, explained further down below). ButterSword is many things, but if it’s not a webcomic then I’m not sure what is. If it is a webcomic, it has evolved into fiction by this point. Fiction about the misadventures of Curtis and Ann across multiple [...]
November 4, 2011
DRAGONBRUSHER
Monsters, Ghosts and Children, Oh my! Childrens book illustrations by Dan Monroe Dan Monroe has been drawing since he could lift a pencil. He often jokes that he was born with a pencil in one hand and a paintbrush in the other – which must have been extremely painful for his mother. From a very [...]
November 3, 2011
INSPIRATIONS by Jess Kirby
I was truly flattered when asked to contribute to this. I also felt conflicted. Who am I to tell other people about art? Well, I’m Jessica Kirby and I may not know all there is to know about art, but I can share with you what I have learned so far. Like everyone else, I’ve [...]
November 2, 2011
the artistic stylings of j. macfarlane
Catthulu is the story of a girl and her cat. The cat is an alien. The girl is not. Catthulu began life as a comic strip in 2010, but it was stopped after about 12 strips, once I became frustrated with the limitations of the format, and also (mostly, really) my own shortcomings as an [...]
January 16, 2012
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