Fine Art… ehem.. on Vinyl

Fine Art… ehem.. on Vinyl
06/21/09

Have you ever wanted a Picasso, Chuck Close or Jackson Pollack hanging in your house, but didn’t wan’t to pay the $10 -100 million for it. Want to bring the Sistine Chapel into your home, without all the tourists, Swiss guard’s shushing and confiscating cameras? Why didn’t DaVinci paint the Mona Lisa bigger, it’s so tiny? All this an more can be solved thanks to Betterwall.com. With the perfect mixture of art and sustainability, Better Wall takes old art exhibit advertisement and resells them after the exhibit is done.

You know what I’m talking about, those massive Vinyl Ads that say things like “Frida Kahlo ‘Triunfo y Tragedia'” which hang down the entirety of museum facades or gallery windows. Yeah, those. On sale. In your living room, classing the joint up a bit.

Chicks’ll dig it I think. So Guys, get rid of the Natty Light neon, and put one of these on the wall to step up your game.

Here are the ones I want to buy, and I think you might be interested in too:

Chuck Close – Self Portraits – Double Sided with two of Close’s best self portraits. These pristine examples of photorealism would be a super modern, and masculine addition to any space.

Bechtle – ’61 Pontiac – Staying the photrealism realm, this piece is another beautiful example. But, I’m even more tempted buy this one because of the absence of words. This really can act as a piece of art, from head to perfectly painted toe.

Renoir – Boating Party – Impressionism is awesome. Especially when your painting an impressionist painting of all of the great impressionist painters. This could be a cool kitchen or dining room addition.

Warhol – Self Portraits – Now that Apple Photbooth or any number of photo softwares allow you to Warhol yourself, I feel like the over use of the style has killed it. But, you have to give props to the originator, especially if you can have it hanging in your house. You could cut it or just fold it over to just leave the iconic faces, but I would keep this clean design of this piece as is. I think its beautiful and a great buy for any home.

Tiffany – Library Lamp – I’m including this because its my wife’s name, and I love lamp. Brick, do you really love the lamp or are you just saying it cause you saw it?… I digress.

If you’re looking to fill some or all the space on your walls, these are not only large, classy and beautiful, but they have real historical connotation to boot. They represent specific exhibit tours or showings, and may even be pieces of pop art in and of themselves one day.

Enjoy! Saw this on Outblush.com again.

Fun work

Martin Luther King Tribute
06/1/10

I wanted to attempt this style  in February, and being Black History Month I chose the Rev. as my muse.

His face is made up of the words of his epic Lincoln Memorial “I have a dream…” speech.

Take a look. I am having it framed as I type.

Smoking Goat Branding
04/1/10

I like beer.

Beer high in flavor, alcohol and price. I brew at home, but wouldn’t consider myself very good at this point. I’m working on it.

We have friends in Louisiana who I would consider really good. I designed some branding for their forthcoming brewery down there.

The Smoking Goat will hopefully be amazing, especially if I get some good beer out of the deal.

Have a look. Then drink a beer and have a look again. Continue this process until the logo looks awesome.

New Poster
02/4/10

This is a poster I made for my buddy Dustin.

A classic quote from him as we drove by Effingham, IL’s infamous and huge cross.

I thought it would look good in his new apartment.

Sheltered Perceptions
01/6/10

I recently got the chance to work on a project for the Humane Society. Given the fact that every time I walk into an animal shelter I have to be talked down from taking home every animal in the place, I was happy to help in anyway I could.

With the majority of pet buying in the United States coming from breeders, mall pet shops and unfortunately mills, animal shelters (specifically the Humane Society) are left overflowing with pets that need loving homes. They are running into a perception problem however, and many misconceptions about shelter pets are accepted as fact, and often repeated as such.

To get past this, we decided to take the problem head on, and address the most common misconceptions individually.

Here is where we landed:

Lauren and Dan sit’n in a tree…
01/5/10

My good friend Lauren is getting married in July, and though I am extremely jealous of her fiance Dan (don’t tell my wife), I made their save the date cards.

I use VistaPrint to print these types of things. Though the quality suffers, and the rumor is that they are destroying local community printers nationwide, for the price they can’t be beat. Check them out next time you want to customize your own holiday card or invitation.

Here’s how Lauren’s STDs turned out: