THE SKULL APPRECIATION SOCIETY

The Skull Appreciation Society

A collection of skull-shaped objects

MOLESKINERIE

Moleskinerie 

is the official blog of Moleskine® and it is completely dedicated to you.  It tells about your passions, your adventures, your experiences. Everything that involves your ideas and the way you express them on your notebooks.

We would like to give a grateful thank to Armand B. Frasco who gave life to this precious environment and contributed in a unique way to spread your amazing pieces of art and talent. Moleskinerie is managed by Moleskine Srl and will continue to maintain the same spirit and follow the same path created by its founder.

THE ART OF URBAN SKETCHING

The Art of Urban Sketching
"This site collects links to stories, reviews, blog posts, news and feedback for The Art of Urban Sketching, a book published by Quarry Books in February 2012. Email me your thoughts on the book and any drawings you may like to share. (If you do, I'll understand that you give me permission to post your text and images here.) Happy sketching, folks! —Gabriel Campanario"

FIGURE DRAWING

Figure Drawing
"This site contains demonstrations and imagery from class lectures and my recently published book Figure Drawing: Design and Invention. In many ways, I consider this site to be an extension and supplement to the book, in that I am able to constantly keep updating the blog section with new drawings, pages, examples, etc. I will also use this site to update ongoing lectures/workshops or other engagements."

FREER AND SACKLER

Freer and Sackler Gallery
"The Smithsonian Institution has two museums of Asian art: the Freer Gallery of Art which opened to the public in 1923, and the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, which welcomed its first visitors in 1987. Both are physically connected by an underground passageway, and ideologically linked through the study, exhibition, and sheer love of Asian art. In addition, the Freer Gallery contains an important collection of 19th century American art punctuated by James McNeill Whistler's Peacock Room, perhaps one of the earliest (and certainly one of the most controversial) art installations on record."

KATY HARGROVE

Katy Hargrove
"Monsters=Love I am a 3D creature model/texture artist at ArenaNet on the Guild Wars series and count myself a lucky lucky girl. Also, I like to draw lots!"

JAMES GURNEY

James Gurney
"This daily weblog by Dinotopia creator James Gurney is for illustrators, plein-air painters, sketchers, comic artists, animators, art students, and writers. You'll find practical studio tips, insights into the making of the Dinotopia books, and first-hand reports from art schools and museums. Plus, for you lateral thinkers and pop-culture trekkers, a few bizarre rabbit trails."

TAKASHI MURAKAMI

Takashi Murakami
"Takashi Murakami is a prolific contemporary Japanese artist who works in both fine arts media—such as painting—as well as digital and commercial media. He blurs the boundaries between high and low art. He appropriates popular themes from mass media and pop culture, then turns them into thirty-foot sculptures, "Superflat" paintings, or marketable commercial goods such as figurines or phone caddies."

CHINESE RUBBING COLLECTION

Chinese Rubbing Collection
"The Fine Arts Library currently houses 2,602 individual East Asian rubbings, the majority of which are from China. The rubbings were made from ancient stone stelae, tomb tablets, Buddhist and Daoist scriptures on stelae and rocks, as well as inscriptions and designs copied from bronze vessels, jade objects, ceramics, tomb bricks, and roof tiles, objects dating from the Qin Dynasty (221-207 BCE) to the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644 CE)."

THE ART CENTER

The Art Center
Sharing ideas and tips from artist to artist

TATTOO CONFIDENTIAL

"This tattoo is an image of a silver pin (a Georg Jensen design) that my great aunt got in Denmark in the 1930s. She had it made into a money clip which she gave my to my dad – who carried all through France & Germany during WWII and back home again until he lost it."

"My next tattoo is of a wolfs paw on my right ankle. This symbolizes the wolf always walking with me."

Tattoo Confidential
"The story behind the tattoo"

ART PROJECT

Art Project
"Explore museums from around the world, discover and view hundreds of artworks at incredible zoom levels, and even create and share your own collection of masterpieces."

JIM MAHFOOD

Jim Mahfood
"Jim Mahfood aka Food One is an illustrator/comic book artist/muralist/live art rocker residing in LA. He is the creator of the art style known as Visual Funk: a hybrid mix of comix art, graffiti, manga, street art, and funk culture."

RETRO LOVERS

Retro Lovers
"art-e-zine's second artists trading card swap with a retro style and a romantic flavour to get your pulse racing and your hands creating some passionate Valentines."

ANDREW HEM

Andrew Hem

"Andrew Hem's introspective, otherworldly paintings explore realities one step away from our everyday waking life. What if our thoughts flickered across the surface of our skin like ephemeral silent movies? What if spirits walked among us, trying to find their path? What if there were no racism, and even the most outlandish people were accepted? What if the children of Andrew's native land had been allowed to live in peace and thrive?"

JENNYBIRD ALCANTARA

Jennybird Alcantara
"Jennybird Alcantara is an artist living in San Francisco CA. She received her BFA from the San Francisco Art Institute.. The majority of her work is oil paintings on wood but she also creates art dolls inspired by her paintings and acrylic works on paper. Her work has at its core a dreamlike narrative and through her paintings she contemplates the complex interconnectedness of opposites as seen through the prism of myth, fable and fantasy. Jennybird uses the symbolism of duality to explore the connection of life and death and the veil in between, as well as the relationship between the beauty and cruelness of nature, that of the natural world as well as human and animal nature. The anthropomorphic qualities in her characters show the relationship of the central figure to the world she inhabits."

AMANDA VISELL

Amanda Visell
"Amanda Visell's fine art career sprouted from continuing failure. A high school drop out and Cal Arts reject, she moved to Los Angeles to pursue a career in traditional animation eventually finding her way to stop motion animation as a designer and sculptor, working on stylized projects for shows like The Simpsons and the feature film Elf. The challenge of mastering new tools and techniques in this medium taught her to be able to visualize her own style. She has been exhibiting her paintings and sculptures internationally since 2005 including Disneyland USA and has created a thriving world of characters as designer toys."

BRITTNEY LEE

Brittney Lee
"I like to start my day with a coffee and some scribble drawings to get creative juices flowing. It is a technique I learned from workshop with Nate Wragg back in 2007, and it really encourages experimentation with different shapes and compositions.
Staying physically active usually boosts my creative energy. I am a big fan of yoga, but I really love to try new things, too. A few days ago I took a trapeze lesson for the first time, and let me tell you, nothing gets your blood pumping like free-falling from 30 feet in the air!
Other than that, I try to surround myself with creative stimulus. I watch lots of films, listen to all kinds of music, see a lot of plays, and keep my work and living spaces filled with photographs, artwork, books, and other knick-knacks that inspire me. Having great friends to bounce ideas off of and to be inspired by always helps too!"

CRAIG ELLIOT

Craig Elliot

"Craig Elliott is an artist based in Los Angeles, California. He received his education at the famed Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California and studied under artists such as Harry Carmean and Burne Hogarth. Craig’s carefully crafted and arresting images of nature and the human form have captivated audiences with their visual and intellectual celebration of the beauty in this world and beyond. In addition to his fine art work, Craig has had a hand in designing many of today’s most popular animated films from studios such as Disney and Dreamworks. A multi-faceted artist, he is also an accomplished landscape architect, sculptor and most recently, jewelry designer. Especially known for his exceptional ability with the human figure and creative composition, Craig’s work has evolved into a unique vision informing and influencing fine art, print, animation, and commercial worlds."

CLYDE ASPEVIG

Clyde Aspevig

"I chose to paint realistic landscapes because I was drawn to recreating nature in a way that appealed to my Clyde Aspevig Paintingown ideas, senses and intellect. I am firmly convinced that a literal naturalistic painting can still satisfy the passions of an intellectual mind. Inventing your own concept of realism is the first and most important step in achieving that goal."