Jan Senbergs

I saw an exhibition of work by Jan Senbergs awhile ago at the AGNSW and was amazed, then I promptly forgot his name. Today a great wrong was righted!

The man doesn't seem to believe in tones, or in colour either really. It's great. Most of his work uses screen-printing and collage.

Rick Amor

Here's a bit of an idea, pretty-pretty watercolour painting of industrial junk. Thanks Rick Amor! Most of his work is o/c actually, but I find these more interesting. Maybe it's the fact that it's watercolour, traditionally the cheesiest of paints. The oils are still really good though.

Sam Songailo

AAAAAHHHHHH.

Collected Philip K. Dick Book Covers

 

Something a bit different today, the official Philip K. Dick website has this totally astounding collection of what seems to be every cover from every one of his books, including reprints and foreign language editions. This sample isn't even every cover in the list for Galactic Pot Healer. What this really is, is a time machine into the golden age of SF/F illustration. Y'know, back when these things were done with paint in the real world instead of Photoshop and being an illustrator was a viable career for a lot of people.

I don't know how they got so many, most of these are long out of print and a few of the photos are clearly of used books. I like to think of some fanatic scouring used-book stores for every last one. Disappointingly, the artists name isn't included for most of these.

(I think photoshop is a totally legit way of painting actually. But sometimes, it's just not the same.)

Jung-Yeon Min

 

I'm enjoying Jung-Yeon Min's work at the moment, it's kinda like classic Surrealism, but with a bit of an anime aesthetic in the colouring style.

Will Cotton

Here's some photo-realism I can get behind. These are, naturally, about sex and women being commodified. But I don't know, if this is what happens when you get commodified just go ahead and sign me up. I want to live on a fairy floss cloud too.

Will Cotton is apparently a big deal, so I guess I suck for not having heard of him until now.

Rhys Lee

Rhys Lee's style has developed over time, from his beginnings in street art into these scrapy, weirdly coloured paintings. They're apparently based on ghost photos and the like, and definitely you get a surprisingly uncanny vibe when staring into these faces in real life.  He uses cheap acrylics on big canvases, and I like the fact that he seems to break colour rules so easily and effectively.