Continuing my habit of linking to extremely pretty art take a look at the work of Audrey Kawasaki. Very nice, kinda Art Nouveau Manga, if such a thing can be imagined, painted in translucent oils on wood so that the grain shows ( Read more... )

As many of you will know I have a love/hate relationship with modern art. In point of fact I loooooooove hating it. It's almost all pseudo-intellectual, pretentious wankery, well beyond my tolerance for such. I prefer to look at the much derided (by the pseudo-intellectual wankery community) "commercial art", things like book covers, illustrations ( Read more... )