The Artwork of Amy Rice

posted by dennis

I am really liking the artwork Minneapolis’s Amy Rice. Amy combines spraypaint stencil, gouache, acrylic and found objects to create simple yet beautiful pieces. I love her use of stencils to create the line work and then paints in the details by hand. But perhaps my favorite aspect of her work is her use of found letters and envelopes on which she creates her pieces.

Life is Sweet for the Manifest Equality Show

Learn to Play

Dear Elizabeth

More of Amy’s work can be seen on her Flickr photostream.

Sylvia by Dennis Jacobs

posted by dennis

I completed a mixed media painting this weekend, entitled Sylvia. The piece measures 12″ x 16″ and is made of hand cut spraypaint stencils over collage on board. Below is the process by which I created the piece.

As with any painting I do, I start by laying down a base layer of collage. With this particular piece I used clippings from vintage magazines, anatomy books, old magazine ads, maps, newspaper, and photos from military books.

This particular painting required two stencils, based on a digital illustration, to complete. Rather than printing and cutting one stencil for each color I instead use the each stencil for multiple colors. For example, I will cut out the sections that for red, spray it, then tape them back into place. I will then cut out the black sections and spray them. This helps to make sure the registration of the stencil is correct and also saves time on cutting stencils. While this does result in the stencil being destroyed, I only make one off paintings, so I will never need to reuse a stencil. If i were to begin doing multiple paintings of a single image, I would then create one stencil per color needed.

See more process pictures as well as the completed painting after the break

The Artwork of SoleOne

posted by dennis

SoleOne is a 20 year old stencil artist based out of the Netherlands. I really like the wit of his simple monotone pieces. But what really impressed me was how good he is technically on his halftone pieces. To think that he had to sit and hand cut 4000 individual squares to make the stencil for the piece makes my hands ache.

More great work from SoleOne behind the cut

Matt Ocasio

posted by dennis

I recently discovered the amine inspired artwork of Cleveland artists Matt Ocasio on the site of William Rupnik Gallery. I was drawn in by his simple line work, super clean stencil work, and interesting compositions. His artwork is very reasonably priced and can be purchased through the gallery here.

Handstyle Lovers

Blueface

More after the break.
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Weekends in Detroit #2

posted by christina

This weekend was a good balance of fun and work for Dennis and I. On Friday, we stopped for dinner at Traffic Jam & Snug. (Thanks to Becks Davis of Detroit Moxie for the excellent suggestion.) We have a strange newfound obsession with fried pickles. I took a picture of them, but I don’t know, I just think food pictures are gross unless you’re a really good photographer. Do you agree, or is that just me?

On to the grand opening of City Bird. That place blew us away. And it was packed! We want to go back there when it’s not so crowded. Not only did they have a ton of cute things, but their displays were genius.

Click the cut to see what I bought, plus pics from our Saturday spent working in the studio.

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