There's nothing like seeing other people's art in order to inspire you to create your own. Well, for me at least. Whenever I see other people's stuff, it makes me wanna whip out my pen and paper and start drawing - what? I have no idea. But just let the mind move the pen and we'll see I guess. Except, I'm at work, so I can't really whip out pen and paper and start drawing. So I continue to browse through deviantart.com and find more and more awesome artists. What to do when I've found them? I share of course! Here's number one of three of the newly found artists that I really, really like: Violent Reaction

I mostly paint on the lost and found, e.g. wood, cardboard, lost toys and in one case half a door! Then once I have had my wicked way with them, return them back to the street for people to find and hopefully take home. It's a form of non-permanent street art to get away from the stereotype of street artists just being vandals, artistic littering if you will.

Wood

Door

Painting

Sketch

Cardboard

Drawing on different mediums is something I've started to play around with as well. Of course I haven't gotten around to drawing on a door or a painting itself since they're kind of hard to come by. :P I wouldn't mind giving it a shot, though. If only our apartment was our own, then I'd totally draw on our door. His idea of leaving his art on the street for people to pick up is pretty awesome as well (non-permanent-street art - what a concept). I wish I could find his art in the streets of Taipei ... T~T Sigh.

This kind of reminds me of an artist my Eng Comp prof had us read about back in college. Basically, this artist, who's pretty well-known for his art, would go into a restaurant (or some other paying-establishment) and order food. When it came time to pay his bill, he'd pull out a drawing or painting he did (sometimes of a real dollar bill) and tell the waiter that he'd pay for the food with the painting/drawing. If the waiter accepted, he'd call an art agent after he left and tell him/her that this waiter at this restaurant has one of his pieces. The agent would then go to the waiter and buy that painting for way more than the artist's bill was originally because that's the only way the art agents could get his paintings as the artist doesn't sell his works to galleries or agents directly. So basically the waiter would end up making money from the painting the artist paid with. :) Interesting, no?

Anyway, the next two artists will be posted the next time I get bored or remember to do it. Hope you guys enjoyed this artist, and don't forget to check out his devart page if you want to see more. :)