The biographical information on Mike Davis’ website describes him as a “modern surrealist painter”. Though his work certainly shows the influence of the original European Surrealist painters, notably Dalí, as well as their more watered down descendants the “pop surrealists”, it is in the work of the 16th century Netherlandish painters Hieronymous Bosch and Pieter Bruegel the Elder that he seems to find his greatest inspiration.

His work has been featured in numerous solo and group exhibitions in the U.S. and Europe. Davis is also a tattoo artist and the owner of the well known tattoo shop, Everlasting Tattoo.

[Via io9]

Daniel Danger is an illustrator and printmaker based in New England.

His ink and monochromatic approach gives his works a strong graphic sensibility, and a wonderfully spooky atmosphere, suggestive and foreboding. This is heightened by his enigmatic titles. (Roll over the images on the homepage/gallery of his website for titles.)

Danger titles his website “Tiny Media Empire” and apparently offers screenprints at times, though the Store section is not currently active.

There is little on his site about his process, but his blog goes into more detail, including process images.

According to entries there, he works in scratchboard on clayboard, a thicker variation of the normal scratchboard support, and an equally demanding and painstaking process.

Color is applied either in paint or digitally, sometimes in a combination of both.

[Via Comics Beat]

Takuma Kaneko is a Japanese artist who studied art in the U.S. and Europe.

As far as I can tell from the brief bio on his website, he is living and working in Japan, though most of the landscapes in his website gallery are of European scenes.

Kaneko’s landscapes are bright, painterly and immediate, with an enjoyable play of light and shadow. You will also find figurative work and still life subjects in his gallery.

Note that additional pages of landscape images can be accessed from the linked numbers under the “Recent Landscapes” header at the top of the main gallery page.

Kaneko also maintains a blog, on which he posts work in progress and location photos. The blog is in Japanese, but there are two strings of characters at the very bottom of each page, the right hand one of which is a link to earlier posts.

Kaneko was a Landscape Category Finalist in the 2011-2012 Art Renewal Center Salon, and there is a high-res image of the painting above, bottom on the ARC site.