Collection of artworks form Mark Ryden and Lori Earley. Sound can play such an important role when setting a mood. Danny Elfman is the man behind the music of this clip. He is american and has composing scores and songs for Tim Burton’s films and won a Emmy Award for the Desperate Housewives theme. Also involved in the music for Big Fish, Beetlejuice, Batman and Edward Scissorhands…  Definatly worth reading up on Danny.

Los Angeles based artist James Jean has produced some of the most amazing artworks I have even seen. The viewer is captured by the mythical stories each artwork tells. James Jean has won countless awards for his work. His clients include Time Magazine, The New York Times, Rolling Stone, Spin, ESPN, Atlantic Records, Target, Playboy, Knopf, Prada among others.

James Jean Supertron

James Jean Didleybo

James Jean Maze

James Jean Prada bloom1

James Jean prada bloom3

James Jean Prwave

James Jean’s drawing process with “Fables-76″

www.jamesjean.com

Lori Early grew up down the street from an amusment park ub Rye, New York. She began drawing at a very young age, and was always intrigued by the unusual.

Lori received her Bachelor of fine arts degree from the school and visual arts, where she had studies with influential artists like Marshall Arisman and Steven Asseal. She received numerous awards and scholarships while in the school and was one of the few students in her graduating class to receive the Rhodes and presidential award for outstanding achievement.

In 2004, Lori Early began exhibiting her oil paintings. Since then. Her fine art career catapulted at an unusual fast pace. Her eerily beautiful art has been exhibited in galleries such as New Yor Cities Jonathan Levine Gallery and the Opera Gallery and the Californians Corpro Nason gallery.

Lori Early oil paintings are a unique combination of classical realistic rendering with a personal element of distortion. Their distortion is derived from her innate desire to render the world she feels as opposed to the world she sees before her. The figures she paints exist in their own esoteric realm and time, and each painting offers a glimpse into their anomalous world.

Here are couple more of Lori Early art works and illustrations :

Found this shortly after my last post about Audrey Kawasaki. Just scrolls through a bunch of her work.

Video of work by Audrey Kawasaki

Audrey Kawasaki - Oiran

More Audrey Kawasaki

Totally sexual in a beautiful artistic way. She works mostly with Oil on wood and incorporates varies other things. I really really enjoy her work.

Audrey Kawasaki - Ishiki

Audrey Kawasaki - Amai

Audrey Kawasaki - fishigi

Audrey Kawasaki - Nest Hair

Audrey Kawasaki - Oyasum

Audrey Kawasaki - Uminoyami

Audrey Kawasaki - Oiran

Tim Biskup is a Southern California fine artist whose work has been shown worldwide, including galleries and museums in Los Angeles, New York, San Francisco, Tokyo, Kyoto, Barcelona, Berlin and Melbourne. He’s collaborated with artists and designers around the globe and organized art auctions and exhibitions. Read More…

Samurai Jack Monster Stack
Digital Art For Giclee/Iris Print
2003

A Decade Of Decadence
Poster Design For Juxtapoz Magazine
2004

Calli Garden
Gouache On Paper 24″ x 18″
2006

White Dragon
Gouache On Paper 12″ x 9″
2005

Injected
Cel Vinyl Acrylic On Wood 24” x 18”
2007

Mysteries and Manners was an exhibition held at the Jonathan LeVine gallery in new York. Alex Gross uses mostly oil on canvas.

Alex Gross - Mysteries and Manners Exhibition

Alex Gross - Ice Cream Conedespair

Alex Gross - Last Judgement

Alex Gross - Oblivion

Alex Gross and Wife

Illustrations by Brandi Milne.

Woodcut is a artistic technique in which an image is carved into the surface of a block of wood, with the printing parts remaining level while the non-printing parts are removed. The block is cut along the grain of the wood. In Europe beechwood was commonly used and in Japan cherry wood was used.

The surface is covered with ink by rolling over the surface with an ink covered roller. Multiple colors can be printed using this technique - a different block is used for each color.

It did not originate in Japan as some people believe. It came originally from China and was later adopted by the West and Japan.

The most popularized form of woodcut Art is called Ukiyo-e. It originated in Japan and it is probably what you have seen. Ukiyo-e means: “pictures of the floating world”. More specifically Ukiyo-e is woodblock prints (or woodcuts) and paintings. They where popular between the 17th and the 20th centuries. Ukiyo-e were affordable because they could be mass-produced. They were, therefore, meant for people who were not wealthy enough to afford an original painting. The original subject of ukiyo-e was city life, in particular activities and scenes from the entertainment district.

This is probably one of the most famous Ukiyo-e’s. It is called “The Great Wave”. (Why do you look surprised?). Artist is Hokusai and it is part of his subscription series, “Thirty-Six Views of Mt. Fuji,” completed between 1826 and 1833.

Artist: Kobayakawa Kiyoshi Nationality: Japanese, 1896-1948 Title: Eyes, Hitomi, from the series Modern Styles of Makeup Date: 1931.

Evening Snow at Kanbara, Ando Hiroshige (Japanese, 1797–1858)

Aram was born in Shiraz, Iran in 1978. He has had solo exhibitions at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, North Adams, MA; Wilkinson Gallery, London; and Oliver Kamm Gallery, New York as well as being included in varies other exhibitions.

Kamrooz Aram is a contemporary artist whose paintings and drawings bring together traditional and contemporary cultural references to create scenes reflecting magical and weird present day.

Kamrooz Aram - Enduring Continuing Eternal
(Oil on canvas)

Kamrooz Aram - Phosphorus Visions
(Oil on canvas)

Kamrooz Aram - Revolutionary Dreams
(Pen on Paper)

Kamrooz Aram - The Gleam Of The Mornings First Beam
(Oil and collage on canvas)