sons of kemet

ane brun

princess chelsea

tropical fuck storm

randall enos

randall enos is better known as a cartoonist but, being that he's from new bedford, it seems inevitable he'd be doing some illustrating of moby dick at some point which he does in the form of the story of mocha dick. these linocuts are absolutely exquisite and absolutely worth a browse

timothy lamb

i like the insouciant nature of this image of queequeg by timothy lamb (no web presence?). that said i'm struck by the lack of figurative pictures from moby dick beyond queequeg or ahab. the ahab images seem to lean heavily on the gregory peck iteration which is all fair and good but seems to me rather limiting. as for the queequeg, as far as i can see most of these images are by white artists, who seem to be predominantly american and male. i've always thought of queequeg as polynesian and it would be nice to see some representations from that part of the world.

stereolab

modern nature

carson ellis

it being the bicentennial of melville's birth i cam across this illustration by carson ellis in the new yorker. true, it's more of melville but i think she's managed to capture the essential ahabian in him.

matt kish

matt kish's illustrtated moby dick is a story in itself but it shouldn't take away from the images. i was beguiled by these images from the moment i saw them and was an easy purchaser of his book!

boubacar traoré

super mama djombo

vis-a-vis

k frimpong and his cubano fiestas

mark milloff

i could go on and on about these images from mark milloff but i shan't. apparently there could be more. i'd love the chance to see these in the flesh.

robert shore

it's well worth having a browse through robert shore's images of moby dick which, to my eyes, capture something much more dynamic than the probably better known series by rockwell kent. i also love the bio on shore's page, different times!

mastodon

and here's mastodon. i love the drummer on this. off the top of my head him and the lass from bandmaid are my favourite drummers at this time. and, for whatever reason, while this video's not the best quality i love the off the wall nuttiness of it that seems somehow to capture that essential madness at the centre of moby dick.

paul romano

after yesterday's comment re lack of female artists illustrating moby dick you don't get more muscularly masculine than mastodon's leviathan album the cover art for which comes from paul romano. i love the song blood and thunder but i adore this cover (available as a print from paul romano should anyone want to get me an early christmas present!)

barry moser

this, by barry moser, isn't from moby dick but is instead of jonah, but it appears so often in moby dick illustration lists (as opposed to his actual moby dick illustration!) i thought i'd include it anyway.

as i'm doing this it strikes me that i haven't actually come across any female artists illustrating moby dick as yet (feel free to put me right). i was super keen to read emily wilson's odyssey when it appeared and it'd be interesting to see a female perspective on what seems such a male tome

bill sienkiewicz

as i've got an enduring interest in moby dick it'll be a week, and maybe more of images from there, starting with this from bill sienkiewicz, easily one of my favourite comic artists and up there amongst my favourite (almost) representational artists. this is the cover image from his graphic version of moby dick which, when i got it was only available in french. which, if you don't speak the language, isn't a problem as you're not getting this for the text! an absolute must for graphic/moby dick fans.

ebo taylor

susan

husbandry

charles bukowski

death of an idiot

he spoke to mice and sparrows
and his hair was white at the age of 16.
his father beat him every day and his mother
lit candles in the church.
his grandmother came while the boy slept
and prayed for the devil to let loose his hold upon
him
while his mother listened and cried over the
bible.

he didn’t seem to notice young girls
he didn’t seem to notice the games boys played
there wasn’t much he seemed to notice
he just didn’t seem interested.

he had a very large, ugly mouth and the teeth
stuck out
and his eyes were small and lusterless.
his shoulders were slumped and his back was bent
like an old man’s.

he lived in our neighborhood.
we talked about him when we got bored and then
went on to more interesting things.
he seldom left his house. we would have liked to
torture him
but his father
who was a huge and terrible man
tortured him for
us.

one day the boy died. at 17 he was still a
boy. a death in a small neighborhood is noted with
alacrity, and then forgotten 3 or 4 days
later.

but the death of this boy seemed to stay with us
all. we kept talking about it
in our boy-men’s voices
at 6 p.m. just before dark
just before dinner.

and whenever I drive through that neighborhood now
decades later
I still think of his death
while having forgotten all the other deaths
and everything else that happened
then.

tulip (undressed)

tiffany bozic

i started the week with nature images and that's how i'll finish. tiffany bozic is described as a surreal nature artist but i think that's a bit reductive. i'm really liking her use of forms and colour

will kurtz

yes, you could say there's something just a bit obvious in some of will kurtz's figures. but for me, that would be profoundly ungenerous. i love his use of material. these are joyous

balkan beat box

allen crawford

i do adore my walt whitman's ong of myself illustrated by allen crawford. obviously everyone should have a copy and i can't help feeling that, if we actually did, we'd be better human beings.

lauren marx

there's representative art and then there's lauren marx. if i'd seen these when i was a (n animal drawing obsessive) little kid i'd have been worshiping at her feet!

samuel uria

fu manchu mongoose

arvo part

peter howson

i'm not the biggest peter howson fan but i can't think of a better image to represent how brexit, whether leave or remain (fringe loons aside), has split the country

robin doyle

robin doyle has some sort of scattergun approach encompassing street art, graffiti, poster art and beyond. but really well executed and absorbing.

chiharu shiota

chiharu shiota defies categorisation. follow the link and just look at her stuff. amazing

costa dvorezky

not what i'd usually look at whatsoever but i was captivated with costa dvorezky's bodies in space. i love the super traditional technique he's using for his figures juxtaposed onto an abstract space. sublime.

truckfighters

the comet is coming

nathalie boutté

i'm guessing this is an earlier work by nathalie boutte as she seems to be more into portrait work these days. or maybe this is just a detail. whichever, i'm liking it.....

hubert tereszkiewicz

apparently hubert tereszkiewicz works mainly in design and just knocks out linocut portraits on the side. which, if you've ever done linocut, is astonishing. i can safely say no linocut i ever do will match the skill (or patience!) on display here

elizabeth lecourt

 i absolutely adore these from elizabeth lecourt and i can't imagine just how tricky it must be to actually make them

the brian jonestown massacre

alexey kondakov

 it's true there's a lot of these juxtaposed images around these days but, for me, alexey kondakov does it better than most

number girl

eastern youth

toshi yoshida

i can't believe i haven't had toshi yoshida on here before. i just assumed this would be a double post! looking at his earlier work you'd be forgiven for thinking this was made by another toshi yoshida. but he moved from his more representative imagery to abstract forms taking all his skills with him and achieving something else entirely. easily one of my favourite printmakers

neil shigley

there's always that niggle now when you're looking at images like this that here's an artist making art from the lives of the less fortunate. obviously the stakes are even higher when that artist is whote and male. even so, i'm thinking neil shigley hits the target here and shows a humanity in his subjects and a compassion that's all too easy to miss as we walk by the ever increasing numbers of people dropping through the cracks in our societies. and i love a big print!

debra fritts

i do love a head with a big halo round it. and, as ever, i do love seeing other people making objects that i couldn't if i had a decade of sundays. debra fritts ticks all the boxes

cecilia paredes

it's unfair to call cecilia paredes just a photographer because her work contains so much more. a true multi media artist

boris groh

don't know much about boris groh but i do love these mournful giant skeletons.....

amyl and the sniffers

negro terror

clutch

los fabulosos cadillacs

ebon heath

so you could describe ebon heath as a letter artists, a sculptor, a paper artists or something else entirely....

job wouters

 job wouters is described as a letter artist. whcih is accurate bur doesn't describe the half of it

aaron van der bosch

george lafayette

there was a time when i might have said figurative sculpture wasn't my thing but there's just so much skill going on here from george lafayette

wojciech fangor

some proper monday colour from wojciech fangor

die antwoord

degiheugi

umoja

canim benim

ruth clotworthy

ruth clotworthy's work is so different from anything i'm doing just now i just find it bold, adventurous and an inspiration. and joyous!

ishibashi yui

i'm probably less comfortable with ishibashi yui's work than i was with yesterday's post. explanations aside the execution is fabulous

taras loboda

taras loboda's relentless pictures of big eyed women are not my natural inclination but the physicality of this big slab of red just caught my imagination!

caddie weisenberg

i find myself being more and more taken by ceramics these days. caddie weisenberg appears to have no web presence whatsoever but images abound. happy googling!

evelyn george carey

no school like the old school. not sure of the provenance on this but evelyn george carey was an engineer who worked on, and took images of, the forth bridge in scotland. and i do like a bridge.....

barcelona gipsy klezmer orchestra

hrdza

shantel and areti ketime

skinny pelembe

josef koudelka

big, bold, classic images. can't argue with josef koudelka

justin clifford rhody

 i was really captured by this image by justin clifford rhody. plus he got a william burroughs thing going on which would've appealed to my younger self

the hillbilly moon explosion

mad sin

mark english

it's a niche subject - paintings of horses that i like - but this by mark english is one of them. i love the collage-y feel of his images and the way he gets paint down

jacob hashimoto

tricky to see this image of jacob hashimoto but worth a closer look for the textures and space it occupies

we butter the bread with butter

katerine

guts

flavien berger

todd hido

i'm not so convinced by all of todd hido's work but i do like his landscapes

lescop

grand blanc

shigeki tomura

easily one of my favourite landscape artists, i particularly like shigeki tomura's trees

des rocs

kælan mikla

jonathan singer

i think this comes from jonathan singer's botanica magnifica. even if it doesn't check it out. if you like this sort of botanical photogrpahy then this is for you.....

the reverend peyton's big damn band

r. l. burnside

valerie june

kakkmaddafakka

akihito takuma

i'd be curious to see how akihito takuma gets these images. i like the singlemindedness of them - i find it very restful!

gabor kerekes

gabor kerekes is interesting, interesting, interesting! get the kettle on and have a browse!

dope lemon

idles

david owen hastings

i think david owen hastings wears his influences on his sleeve and i'm not going to grumble about that!

rebecca crowell

loving these from rebecca crowell

amyl and the sniffers

courtney barnett

kitty. daisy and lewis

dead vibrations

jerome liu xin hao

not much in the way of architectural drawing lately but this is one of my faves. it's apparently a drawing as part of a project for a peckham hospice but i can't find a link for more detail. google and maybe you'll have more luck!

pat steir

proper old school, it's amazing just how often you see echoes of pat steir's work

suspended 4th

yodogawa boys

88kasyo junrei

nigami

mattie iverson

 to paraphrase jean brodie - for those who like this sort of thing, this is the sort of thing they like. this, by mattie iverson, hits the spot just right for me