Serena Mitnik-Miller

There’s an incredible sense of harmony and balance in Serena Mitnik-Miller’s work. You can almost feel the Californian breeze flowing through each piece. The natural environment of the coast and surrounding community influences each curve, arc and line that drifts around the paper. Each piece is made by hand with watercolour pigment on paper.

Along with her husband, she also owns The General Store which opened in 2010, stocking carefully curated artisan produced goods, with locations in both San Francisco and Los Angeles.

Jared Muralt's sketchbook

Every now and then you come across an artist whose work just flaws you. And not just one incredible piece of artistry, but every picture of theirs you see. This is true of the Swiss illustrator, Jared Muralt, founder of the illustration and graphic design studio, BlackYard.

Jared attended art school for a year in his native Bern, Switzerland. He is largely self-taught, receiving much of his study through books regarding art history, anatomy and comics. All of which are explored in his work and clearly visible in his sketchbook drawings below. There are so many of these drawings that it was damn hard trying to pick only a few.

For more of his work check out his website or his instagram feed. Seriously, every post is unbelievably good.

Matt Taylor

Intense, rich colours dominate Matt Taylor’s incredible illustrations. His bold aesthetics coupled with the influence of Americana, fifties and sixties comic books and the contrast of primary colours, result in a damn fine body of work. Below is a selection of his film posters and private commissions...

Matt lives and works in Brighton, UK.

The pulp fiction of Francesco Francavilla

There are two things you need to know about Italian comic book artist, Francesco Francavilla: Firstly, he produces some of the best pulp and retro-styled pictures you're ever likely to come across and, secondly, he has created possibly the most perfect minimalist posters for the hit TV show, Breaking Bad; the latter project purely as a hobby.

In 2009 he created The Black Beetle, a comic series he originally made for his Pulp Sunday blog, which has since been picked up by Dark Horse Comics, gaining him much critical acclaim. And he has also produced a long line of fantastic covers for many publications (including Dark Shadows, The Spider, Hellboy, Sherlock Homes and The Shadow to name but a few), earning him an Eisner award in 2012.

 

 

 

 

 

Beautiful decay: the work of artist and designer, Evan Hecox.

It was a few years ago when I first heard of Evan Hecox.  I can't remember exactly how I came to find his work but it instantly grabbed my attention. The simplified, design-like style hit the same chord that illustration does with me. The paintings are almost cinematic in their composition. And it's this mix of recording the factual, physical decay of a city street while simultaneously reducing it to it's essential visible components, and turning it into a beautiful image, that I love so much.

He begins with careful observations of a setting and then progresses into concentrated, detailed drawings worked over a prepared, aesthetically textured ground. As a result the drawing floats on top of the surface, which remains visible through the drawing, creating a space between them that is at once tied to, and distanced from the image.

His more recent work has started to move towards abstraction with design coming to the fore. Presenting work with bold abstracted lettering combined with the urban landscapes of his previous work, often drawn over newspaper.

Evan Hecox lives and works in Colarado, USA.