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Kyung Soon Park

Sascha Ehrentraut — Sun, 07 Aug 2011 19:39:48 +0000

Great new find for me. I love how she has pronounced her lines through a soft colour pallet. The core characters seem to float through and over the context of the artworks making them feel very much alive. All in all her illustrations feel uncluttered, interesting, alive and beautiful.

She has a more organic feel to James Jean probably due to her mediums which are water colour and ink. There is an uncanny similarity between Kyung – Adventure and James Jean – Haze, dont you think? I would also say her subject matter is similar to both James Jean and Yuko Shimizu but a more subtle version of Yuko Shimizu.

Quote from the illustrator: “I try to set the tone of the story being told. Everybody comes with their own unique set of preconceptions that can alter challenge, or reinforce.” Enjoy!

Kyung Soon Park - Jellyfish

Audrey Kawasaki – Charlotte

Sascha Ehrentraut — Sun, 07 Aug 2011 10:12:17 +0000

Another limited edition illustration going up for sale by Audrey.

Audrey Kawasaki - Charlotte

Print on 100% cotton archival fine art paper
size: image is 17.5″x17.5″ on a 17.75″x17.75″ sheet

signed and numbered on the image area
price: $100 shipping: US $20 / Int’l $30
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Stella Im Hultber

Sascha Ehrentraut — Fri, 29 Jul 2011 21:21:04 +0000

Stella Im Hultber - Because

Hope Gangloff

Sascha Ehrentraut — Sat, 02 Jul 2011 14:13:37 +0000

Phenomenal artwork by Ryohei Hase

Sascha Ehrentraut — Mon, 16 May 2011 20:59:29 +0000

The animals being fused with human bodies gives me the feeling that these are expression of perpetual and universal human conditions. Almost all his artwork are incredibly intense and I find myself gripped every time I feast my eyes on his work. Needless to say that the anatomical detail and proportions of his artworks are brilliant.

The Repetition rang (First 2 Illustrations) for me expresses anxiety, struggle, fighting, angst, trapped, rebellion, frustration but all intertwined in on itself – feeding upon itself deepening that experience. A self fulfilling prophecy, one emotion triggering another until absolutely embroiled with no definite starts or ends. The Room range (Last 3 Illustrations) individually have their meanings. The Rabbit and the Tiger seem very symbolic/mythological but what I would say it shares with Repetition is the sense of perpetual struggle. A struggle bound to nothing but itself, nourishes the fight. The other two I will leave open for your own interpretation.

The below two art works are from his Repetition range:

The below 3 art works are from his Room range:

Explore the world of Ana Bagayan

Sascha Ehrentraut — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 11:53:12 +0000

Ana is Armenian but moved to the US when she was 16 years old. Reading her Bio one gets the sense that she had an angelic time in California where she plaid amongst tall grass and immersed herself in the natural world. You can see these early influences coming through in her artwork.

I love her work – style & message. I am especially enjoying the non-macabre pieces – refreshing in amongst so much of this darkness we see in contemporary illustration. Pieces like Willow, Critters and Fox. For me the underlying theme shows youth comfortably immersing themselves in nature/life whilst discovering life, death and themselves. Exploration of self and the world through the innocence of youth and the reality of life. In this way I think her illustrations could be very personal.

A note from the illustrator: “I don’t think style or concept can stand alone, one without the other. I like to use subtle humor, a dark twist, and a lot of detail in my artwork to pull the viewer in. ”

She entered Art Center College of Design in Pasadena where she earned her Bachelors of Fine Arts in Illustration.

Enjoy!