Nimit Malavia‘s portfolio is quite robust and diverse. The illustrator, designer, painter from Ottawa, Ontario appears to have the skills to do it all. His portfolio includes several fantastic drawings, paintings, and even graphic design work.

Malavia has some prints of his personal works available for purchase in his webstore for reasonable prices in small editions.

Enjoy more work below and at the artist’s website. (more…)

While a majority of the incredible art shows are limited to the coasts, sometimes we get the occasional gem in the midwest. Aaron Horkey’s Midwestern Heart is a selection of drawings from 2003-2010. Aaron has also produced a breathtaking art print for the opening which can be seen in full below. After the opening, prints will be made available online and we’ll keep you posted with release information. The show opens on Sunday, September 12th, from 2:00-4:00pm and runs through November 20th at the Remick Gallery in Windom, MINN. The flyer for the show is below as well. Via omgposters.com

Update: There will be a Black Osprey x Mega Fauna button set made available at the show as well. See photograph of the pins below. (more…)

I stumbled upon Andrew Hem‘s work recently and found his painting quite interesting. He’s got a website with a bunch of work to look at and a store with painted matchboxes which I got a chuckle out of. Enjoy more of his work below and at his website. (more…)

Mark Ryden has just published an 11×14″ hardcover book presenting the paintings and drawings from his incredible Snow Yak Show. The exhibition, held in Tokyo last year, featured exquisite snow, fur, and ice-drenched paintings depicting a winter weirdland of yaks, Yetis, nudes, and, er, Abe Lincoln. Also available is a microportfolio of 17 postcards with images from the show.

More images from the book after the jump. (more…)

I recently stumbled upon the work of Caitlin Hackett and was quite impressed. Her style brings to mind that of John Dyer Baizley without the thick linework and Pushead, metal & punk graphic influence. The photo below of the artist working on a drawing shows the scale of at least one of her pieces, and i’d imagine with the amount of detail presented here, most of her works are created at a decent size. Enjoy more images after the break and check out her full portfolio at carbonmade. (more…)

Daniel Danger has a new show entitled “They Will Take It Back” which opens tonght, August 5th at Gallery 1988 in LosAngeles. Luckily for those of us who cannot make it, you can see a lot of the work from the show online below. The full show preview can be found at the Gallery 1988 website, where you can pick up original works if you have the means.

For those interested in the prints made available from this show soon when information on their release is made public tomorrow.

It is clear that Daniel has perfected his aesthetic and produced an impressive show. Lots of stunning new work after the break (more…)

It is that time of year again for a brand new installment of the “Friends With Knives” stencil group show which will be held at Crewest Gallery in Los Angeles, California on Saturday, August 9th. This year PaperMonster has brought together an impressive lineup of artists including: Blek le Rat, Broken Crow, Chris Stain, Dave Lowell, E.L.K, Greg Boudreau, HAHA, Joe Iurato, Koleszar, Henry Quiara, Leckomio, Mefee, Nathan Phaneuf, PaperMonster, Peat Wollaeger, Scotch and Shai Dahan. This is a wonderful opportunity to view a huge range of stencil styles and stencil art techniques under one roof. For more info on the Friends With Knives group show visit PaperMonster’s Blog.

Friends With Knives Stencil Group Show
Opening Reception: Saturday August 7th @ 6pm
Crewest Gallery
110 Winston St.
LA, CA 90013
213-627-8272
http://crewest.com

More Work from the show below (more…)

Artists AJ Fosik and Bill McRight have a joint show at David B Smith Gallery, opening Friday, July 16th from 7-10 pm. “Count Back from Nothing” features some very interesting new works by Fosik, who I’ve had my eye on for quite some time. More images of the artists’ work at the show preview here and below. (more…)

Sylvia Ji has a show currently on display at Joshua Liner Gallery in NYC featuring some stunning new works. “Las Adelitas” is showing alongside Travis Louie’s “Curious Myths.” For those of us who cannot make it to the show to see these works in person, you can view large images of selected works from each artist’s show at the gallery website. Both shows run through August 7th.

To commemorate the show, the gallery has produced two extremely limited prints of paintings from “Las Adelitas”. “Red Quechquemitls” and “Te Adoro” are 20″x24″ giclees in editions of 50 for $200 ea. You can see the full images and more below. (more…)

Hiroaki Samura is an artist that I’ve been following since the late 90′s when I stumbled upon a copy of Blood of a Thousand at a friend of a friend’s house. The book belonged to the brother of said person and when I asked if I could read it he promptly gave an angry “No”. I got the better of him, I read it while he was gone.

The first thing that struck me was just how different it looked. Everybody knows what manga and anime are supposed to look like. Just the mention brings a preloaded image into your brain. I didn’t get that with Blade of The Immortal. The style was a mix of japanese stylization with a solid grounding in the natural world. Hiroaki’s compositions tell of a clear understanding of the fundamentals of life drawing. The tone was also very modern for a story in historic Japan. Samurai punk would be a good way to describe it. This is a mature title in every way, violent samurai battles, swearing, sexual themes, and political discussion on the idea of the Bushido system that governed the land. (more…)