I've always been a fan of art in any medium, which explains my love for Oakleys from 1993-2004. This thread is for all to post outstanding works of art, whether it's by a specific person or a consumer product that you'd consider a work of art.

One of my favourites is Guy Laramee, a Montreal-based artist who is known for his landscape sculptures made out of thick books. He does amazing stuff (not just with books but old oil barrels as well) and hope to get at least one of his pieces in the next couple years. Some examples of his work:





http://www.guylaramee.com/

Those are pretty cool. I'll have to dig up some of the stuff I like.

AWESOME!!!

I really love the work from Bertil Vallien for Kosta Boda: http://www.bertilvallien.nu/startsidan.html

Awesome!

Another one of my favorites is Vancouver-based Taka Sudo. He is especially known for using newspaper as his canvas, and the use of vibrant colours really makes his art jump off that canvas. A lot of his art feature animals, but he does human subjects from time to time. Some examples of his work:







Most of his pieces are relatively inexpensive at less than $1k for larger original works.

http://www.tifdyl.com/home.html

Some pics in this thread of what his art looks like on the wall:
http://www.helliongallery.com/?page_id=3448

That's actually not bad. The thing that turns me off of most art, is the fact that you end up with a print. The one real piece I have is a woodcarving by a local artist. Not famous, but it of course has to be the original.

Would love to see that carving if you ever wish to take a pic of it. Woodwork is an amazing skill. Some artists have done crazy stuff with it, with one of my favourites being Venice's Livio De Marchi. He's known for craving 1:1 cars out of wood. Some examples of his work:

All of it is amazing stuff. The books are very cool and those wood carvings are pretty impressive.


Cam de Leon
happypencil.com

Vincent Marcone
mypetskeleton.com

Vincent's work is pretty cool, and it's always great seeing a Canadian artist.

chuckclose.com

Taka Sudo has a graffiti style to it. When I was big into shoes, I wanted a Dave White (a UK artist) sneaker print. He has a unique graffiti style to all of his work. He is a big sneaker fan and has done several Jordan and Nike paintings.

A couple of years ago they did a limited run on several of his sneaker prints and one that I really wanted. I got the full size canvas print and had it had finished too.

That's a cool print.

Bruce D. Mitchell is an FX guy that also makes some awesome masks/helmets. His work is amazing, so check them out here:

http://conceptualexecutioner.blogspot.ca/


A couple pieces I find very cool and especially interesting because they use Oakley lenses are:

Crazy! I love that he uses Oakley lenses as well. He's got some unique pieces for sure.

Cool, I like the contained in the book concept.
I kinda dig street sidewalk art and the camo art:

Stumbled on these last night and thought they were way cool

That sidewalk art is amazing.

The dying (dead?) art of hand drawn, hand painted animation:




I've gotta pick up more cels.

Trench Art has come back into view for me since one of my old neighbours recently passed away (he was a retired Canadian military vet), and he was somewhat a collector. Trench Art is made from things such as artillery shells, such as these were:

Are they usually made while in the field or from salvaged things

Usually in the field by soldiers, but there are also pieces just done by talented artisans.

The pieces I've seen are pretty impressive and very unique - these are amazing - the detail is awesome.

I've followed the work of PES for a while since he made Western Spaghetti



and it seems he's mostly been doing commission work for commercials, but he finally released another short.

Amazing stuff.

Very cool!