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Category: Outsider Art

  • Peter Max

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    Peter Max rose to fame at a pop artist and poster artist associated with the mass media image of the 1960’s psychedelic art movement. Max took his influences from the underground psychedelic concert posters and album art of the time, and the graphically simplified echoes of that art pioneered by Heinz Edelmann and Milton Glaser,…

  • Etch-A-Sketch at 47

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    Short of crayons, maybe the Etch-A-Sketch, which turns 47 this week, has earned it’s tagline of “World’s favorite drawing toy”. We’ve all done it, right? Artists and non-artists alike, twirling the little plastic knobs, trying to make diagonals and curves, which was a little like patting your head, rubbing your stomach and chewing gum at…

  • Ed “Big Daddy” Roth

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    At some point in my impressionable youth, I was exposed to certain “corrupting influences” that twisted my little brain into a fevered pop culture pretzel and made me not only want draw comics and cartoons, but draw outrageous and weird comics and cartoons. One was my discovery of paperback reprints of E.C. Mad comics from…

  • Brian Taylor

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    When I first encountered Brian Taylor’s work in 2001 it was in the form of a fascinating project called Rustboy (images above, top row), a web site created to chronicle the progress of his desire to create a CGI animated movie on his own, from concept sketches to final renderings, using only home computer level…

  • Dr. Sketchy’s Anti-Art School

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    Hey all you non-artists: want to know a secret? Shhhhh! Don’t let this get out, and I hate to spoil any idyllic illusions you may have, or that your artist friends have encouraged you to have, but… drawing nude models isn’t particularly sexy. There, I said it. Don’t look at me that way! It’s true.…

  • Shawn Barber

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    I’ve featured tattoo artists on lines and colors (like Regino Gonzales), but I found it particularly fascinating that gallery artist and illustrator Shawn Barber has painted a series of portraits of individuals with tattoos, with a particular interest and emphasis on the tattoos. Often, in fact, he will focus on just hands or other body…