These images are from my @Juxtapozmag #saberspick Twitter contest. The winner will be featured in print in an upcoming issue of Juxtapoz magazine. I was looking for experienced artists who haven’t been featured in Juxtapoz mag print edition yet. I like to see a detailed, intense, consistent body of work, consistent is the key word. I stumbled upon some cool painting but when investigating further on their sites or tumblers the body of work wasn’t consistent. That then affected how I felt about the original piece. Some advice: Do not put your entire body of work in your portfolio. This can be overwhelming to the viewer because, well, we all really sucked bad at one point! I do not want to see your dilapidated still life’s from your high school art class next to your current strongest work! Sorting through all the art tweets wasn’t easy, below is some of my thoughts on just a small portion of the art piled onto my timeline that I was attracted to, for all sorts of reasons.
Twitter has given artists a new voice. Now people can share their artwork and ideas with everyone live. The fact that I can have access to conversations and ideas from some of the great people I admire is very empowering, especially if I know they are seeing something created by me! I enjoyed watching all the artwork and comments tweeted at me live with artists and observers from all over the world. Even with a small number of followers in comparison to millions the intensity on Juxtapoz and my timeline was clear, people just want to share their art and ideas with the world. Fortunately for us this includes the good, the bad, and the extremely fugly…………..
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Winner! @YatikaField
When I saw his abstracts passing through my Twitter timeline I couldn’t help but pause, dive in and try to deconstruct the detailed color patterns and sharp movement. Diving further into his work I discovered he lives through his passion as a decedent of the Native American Indians that reflected the specific patterns and motifs in the abstracts. I liked that I had to work for the information. He also works with his public mural crew that has a mission to bring the Native American aesthetic back to the public sphere. No doubt his art stands for something as powerful as his bloodline and the relationship with the story in history of the Native Indian and the Anglo-American conquest. I chose him as the winner because along with a detailed consistent body of work his convictions seep through the paintings. For me I can’t ignore the intensity …..
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#2 @snorvet
His figurative work is almost like visiting an alternate universe high on ketamine where the strange and distorted is the norm and routine and normality is the incurable sickness….
Great sketches and great detailed paintings.
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3. @gregoryganeles
I am always a stickler for photo realistic landscapes, especially when it documents the graffiti on the walls. Gregory has clear painting ability as well as a consistent body of work. He chooses isolated graffiti hotspots as influence, his eye for perspective and placement lends to the sense of depth that sucks you in. Great paintings!!!………
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4. @amycrehore
Is a savage painter. She sneaks by you casting a line and hook that then reels you into her innocent sexual playfulness all the while leaving you stranded as a tickled voyeur creeping in on this dreamlike island utopia where anything goes…I wouldn’t mine being stranded for a bit. Great detailed technical paintings.
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#5 @feildyart
Surfs up! Great detailed works on surfboards. Tiki, skulls, and beach ladies are usually usual, but this guy rocks it! Definitely an updated twist to an older art movement using crisp, clean, graphic style painting style on an unforgiving medium. Just playing around with surfboards takes a bit of know-how and a sense of craftsmanship.
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#6 @raskopticon
This piece is real sick, plain and simple. Rask displays a clear undeniable artistic ability mastering the airbrush with hyper-detail as well as a keen sense the figurative……..
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#7 @rickywatts
I know what it takes to keep a clean consistent pattern using spraypaint. Its not easy. These space rainbow abstracts paintings seem to please my eye. He also does detailed city sketches that show true base experience.
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#8 @liquidwerx
Great figurative illustrations with an awesome color palette, hand sketches and detailed computer work.
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#9 @june22
His work is inspired by a royal Egyptian motif. From hand crafted jewel like sculptures to painting on skateboards he is consistent in his ability to achieve detailed clean lines and patterns that give his work a quality of an ancient archeological find.
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#10 @caseykawaguchi
I like his raw painting figurative style that leaves you with a sense of eeriness.
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#11@jdekal
Clearly a very powerful and talented illustrator, with the ability to master different mediums.
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#12 @stephenhiam
What’s not to love about a home made altered leaf blower turned into a paint-blasting machine from hell. This experiment makes spraying with fire extinguishers look like a spray bottle. Can never get enough of the texture achieved with a paint super blaster!
Simple and straight to the point…Paint and texture.
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#13 @drewtoyours
Great abstract expressionism, raw, layered and leads the viewer to search for subtle hints of deeper meaning.
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#14 @chanceartworks
This work is multi-media collage on newspaper with nice depth and detail.
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#15 @mansanares23
My taste in political commentary with a clean, crisp graphic style.
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#16 @815k1
His work is deconstructed from the point of view of a construction workers day of hard work building with his hands and using the chalk-line. As these measurements and patterns of chalk line built on the work site, it conveys a sense of craftsmanship only earned by a hard day of work.
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#17@coldstudio
Nice painted illustration, I especially like the owl and bullet combo.
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#18 @jonlovesart
Jesus, guns and fast-food, this obvious commentary seemed to be very relevant in relation to the topics the day I stumbled on to this on Twitter. Unfortunately this topic seems to continue to escalate here in the good old USofA during election seasons. Jesus loves you……..
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#19 @dannymeza83
Great interpretation of Michelangelo’s Creation Of Adam…….
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#20 @motelcampbell
I can always appreciate the creative process and the struggle to search through abstraction using raw tools like charcoal.
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#21 @cynthiabsl
WE NEED MORE FEMALE ARTISTS! Cynthia is working through her creative process with detailed drawing moving towards an illustrative style.
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#22 @melikepainting
This guy art is all over the place but the spray paint abstract faces have some nice line work.
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