JIm McKenzie

Jim McKenzie

Jim is a New York based Lowbrow / Pop Surrealist artist and animation commercial director. His sculptures and paintings often depict surrealist wonderlands occupied by highly saturated characters.

 

"The Scarecrow" 

It has an ironic phobia of crows.

All of these sculptures are from his solo exhibit called, "Lost Magic." The only reason I chose Jim is because I saw a YouTube video of him doing the "Scarecrow" and the process of it. I found it really awesome and kind of learned from the video how things are so detailed. It makes me want to do a sculpture as wild and ironic as Jim's are. He kind of has that Tim Burton feel but less dark. I can say all his sculptures makes question his inspiration to be honest, but his sculptures are amazing to look at. 

FOREAL

FOREAL 

FOREAL is a "young design studio with a creative focus on illustration & art direction." It was founded by Benjamin Simon and Dirk Schuster. Their artwork makes me question "What is going on here?" and laugh sometimes. They have interesting CGI art. 

Here we see on the left is Mickey Mouse's hands mimicking mimicking Michelangelo’s iconic “The Creation of Adam.” Pretty nostalgic I say.

They also do contemporary mashups such as the one above where Barack Obama is mashup with David Bowie and also a race car. 

I have no words for this one but just "Why?"

This one definitely goes under "Things I should've Not Seen" tab.

The more I look at this the more disturbed out I am.

Tooth-brush, get it? This reminds me of Jasper John's "The Critic Smiles" (1959) but with a more modern feel. 

Lisa Rodden

Lisa Rodden 

Lisa Rodden is a Visual Artist, Creator and Designer. She is from Sydney, Australia.

Gumnuts II

Her artwork process is painting a cardboard then cutting design on another cardboard. She places the painted cardboard under the cut one. She lifts up the already cut designs and then the final results are how they look like below. She's really good with the razor.

Two Koi

I really like this because it's just so neat. 

Also it's amazing. I've never seen art like this before to be honest.

This looks like something a perfectionist would do if they're an artist. She really knows how to handle the razor.  

This one is my second favorite. It's just so detailed as it can get and the shadows makes the feathers seem a little life like somehow. 

Last but not least is this Chinese dragon, it's also my favorite. I really want to make something like this.