Geek Crafts

This weekend my daughter, husband, and I checked out the Spectrum Fantastic Art Live! convention in Kansas City. Spectrum publishes an annual art book featuring “a regular showcase for the best fantasy, science fiction, horror, and otherwise uncategorizable artwork”. This is the first year they have also hosted an art fair/trade show “for those who take delight in the worlds of What If?…”

According to the show guide book, “Fantastic art can be a slightly skewed, off-kilter view of reality or a full-blown creation of imaginary lands and the people–and creatures–that live there.”  Given that definition, the art fair definitely provided examples of the fantastic – from fairies to the macabre, there was a little something for everyone.

Click on any of the images to go to the artist’s site.

Spectrum Fantastic Art Live show poster outside exhibit hall

Tom Bishop's booth

Andrew Martin, working on sculpture pieces

Baby Chewy by Bobby Chiu

"Imagine" by Karen Hollingworth

"The Search Begins" by Edward Howard

"Joan of Arc" by Donato Giancola

"The Haunting" by Brian Despain

Finally, we were also lucky enough to see some friends from college there. One of my good friends from the dorm was there with her artist husband, Jeff Miracola, who is of course (shall I say it?) fantastically talented. He has done a lot of art for Magic: The Gathering cards, and is focusing now more on digital art. Check out the gorilla and owl faces in the background of this photo.

Artist Jeff Miracola, my husband David, and my friend Silvia

Pretty fantastic, huh? Which artist(s) would you like to see at a fantastic art show?

Links of Interest:

• Spectrum Fantastic Art Live
• Tom Bishop‘s page on Texas Society of Sculptors
• Andrew Martin
• Bobby Chiu‘s deviantart gallery
• Karen Hollingworth‘s work
• Edward Howard‘s work
• “Joan of Arc” by Donato Giancola
• “The Haunting” by Brian Despain
• Jeff Miracola‘s site

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Hm. I quite like the art of Booknick—lots of great sci-fi–themed art printed on salvaged book pages. I love the delightful C3PO in Lolita glasses and the charming TARDIS. Super reasonable prices, too.

• Booknick’s Etsy Shop

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When I came across these pictures, I was instantly in love. This is a collection of portraits of famous scientists by artist Simon Bent. I imagine making a quilt out of one of these. How great would it be if your baby’s blankets was a big picture of Isaac Newton.

• Check out more art by Simon Bent
• Check out more Geek Craft Art. 
• Check out more Scientists on Geek Craft. 

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When I saw this, I did a double take.  I was browsing through Etsy when I saw this Pokeball Duct Tape Flower by DuctTapeRose.  I have always been a fan of Duct Tape creations, from my own clumsy attempts at making duct tape wallets to other peoples much better attempts.

If you have the same love of Duct Tape as me, I know you are amazed at the level of detail here, but you haven’t seen anything yet.  Visit DuctTapeRose on Etsy to see some duct tape creations that will absolutely blow your mind.

I think I’m in love.

Check out the Pokeball Flower!

Visit DuctTapeRose on Etsy!

More Pokemon on Geekcrafts!

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This is something that I have been into for a while.  There are tons of these videos out there, and it is very difficult to pin down specific artists, but I thought I would share one of my favorite spray paint artist videos with you.  It was uploaded by spacepainter on youtube over 4 years ago, but I watch it every couple of months and I am still amazed.

Let me know what you think in the comments section.  This is not a new phenomenon by any means, but it is something that is pretty much always fun to watch.

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These paintings by Wednesday Wolf are amazing—dark and evocative and deceptively simple. They also really run the gamut of geekery, encompassing everything from Sackboy, the Ninja Turtles’ Michaelangelo, and Gir to Powerpuff Girls villain Him, Voldemort, and even Trogdor. And I’ve never seen such a menacing Pokedex or such a tragic depiction of Dr. Horrible. It’s hard to choose, but I think my personal favorite is the Alot. (You know the story of the Alot, right?)

I’m running out of wall space, but I may need one or more of these prints.

• Wednesday Wolf’s website
• Wednesday Wolf’s Etsy shop

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