Source Design You Trust  Steve McDonald is an award-winning Canadian illustrator, a founding member of the artist collective Drawnonward, and an international bestselling author with Chronicle Books, now working at the intersection of traditional illustration and AI-assisted art. McDonald graduated from the Ontario College of Art & Design in 1992 and spent two decades with…

Source Colossal   Amid the rugged, wave-churned shoreline of France’s Breton coast, a surprising tidbit of pop culture has kept beachcombers returning for more than 40 years. The short film “Silly Little Plastic Cat” transports us to this slice of Brittany, where local residents grew up collecting parts of a 1984 Garfield-themed plastic telephone on the…

Source Artsy Shark  Painter Shannon Rios interprets the landscape and all of her subjects in a distinctly personal creative style. The post Featured Artist Shannon Rios appeared first on Artsy Shark.

Source Colossal   The spiral is one of the most ubiquitous, universal symbols. Or perhaps it is more apt to describe the motif as mimicked from nature, where it occurs in the form of seashells, flowers, and curling waves. From Neolithic stone carvings at Newgrange in Ireland to swirling motifs on prehistoric pottery discovered in Thailand,…

Source Colossal   In 2022, New York resident and bonafide feline devotee Dan Rimada felt that something needed to be done to shine a light on the city’s cats. The Big Apple not only has a real feral issue, but many of these creatures make their homes in iconic shops found around the city: bodegas. Over…

Source Colossal   Whether playing a game of Uno on the back patio by the light of a headlamp or wading into a preternaturally still body of water on a pitch-black night, the figures in Aron Wiesenfeld’s works calmly exist amid an air of mystery. His enigmatic paintings and drawings entice viewers into a world of…

Source Artsy Shark  Are you worried about where the business of art is headed in the future? You’re not alone. The post What’s the Future of Your Art Business? appeared first on Artsy Shark.

Source Colossal   In the voluptuous ceramics of En Iwamura, sweeping lines of clay frame minuscule eyes and noses that just barely emerge from the earthen material. The artist is based in the iconic pottery town of Shigaraki in Japan’s Shiga Prefecture and is known for his expressive yet abstract sculptures. Evoking playful depictions of masks…