So we all know Drake has released his debut album today, and if you don’t know this then… I don’t even know how you can­not. But more inter­est­ing is the fact that some­one for­get to send a memo to Juvenile’s cre­ative team for their splen­did work on HIS new CD cover. Coin­ci­dence?

model: Jem Pollard

It is offi­cially Sum­mer, oh how we’ve missed you!  So now we can expect a lot more out­doorsy influ­enced photo-shoots, cap­tur­ing both the beauty of the sub­ject and of  course the beauty in nature.

A lot of work has been in pro­duc­tion, most of which can­not be seen until actu­ally  released to the pub­lic.  Carib­ana is just around the cor­ner, so you know what that means, jump up

The more you do what you are doing, you begin to ques­tion why you do it and if the place you are at is where you want to be.  And any true artist would quickly agree that we are never sat­is­fied with where we’re at, and are con­stantly look­ing for change and improvement.

If you’re on Twit­ter, fol­low me.. ain’t hard to find:

http://www.twitter.com/kareemajani

001. Hel­vetica [1957 — Max Miedinger]
002. Gara­mond [1530 — Claude Gara­mond]
003. Frutiger [1977 — Adrian Frutiger]
004. Bodoni [1970 — Giambat­tista Bodoni]
005. Futura [1927 — Paul Ren­ner]
006. Times [1931 — Stan­ley Mori­son]
007. Akzi­denz Grotesk [1966 — GБnter Ger­hard Lange]
008. Offic­ina [1990 — Erik Spiek­er­mann]
009. Gill Sans [1930 — Eric Gill]
010. Univers [1954 — Adrian Frutiger]
011. Optima [1954 — Her­mann Zapf]
012. Franklin Gothic [1903 — Mor­ris Fuller Ben­ton]
013. Bembo [1496 — Francesco Griffo]
014. Inter­state TT [1993 — Tobias Frere-Jones]
015. The­sis [1994 — Lucas de Groot]
016. Rock­well [1934 — Frank H. Pier­pont]
017. Wal­baum [1800 — Jus­tus Wal­baum]
018. Meta [1991 — Erik Spiek­er­mann]
019. TrinitВ [1982 — Bram De Does]
020. Din [1926 — Lud­wig Goller]
021. Matrix [1986 — Zuzana Licko]
022. OCR [1965 — Amer­i­can Type Founders]
023. Avant Garde [1968 — Herb Lubalin]
024. Lucida [1985 — Chris Holmes & Charles Bigelow]
025. Sabon [1964 — Jan Tschi­chold]
026. Zapfino [1998 — Her­mann Zapf]
027. Let­ter Gothic [1956 — Roger Rober­son]
028. Stone [1987 — Sum­mer Stone]
029. Arn­hem PS [1998 — Fred Smei­jers]
030. Min­ion [1990 — Robert Slim­bach]
031. Myr­iad [1992 — Carol Twombly & Robert Slim­bach]
032. Rotis [1988 — Olt Aicher]
033. Euros­tile [1962 — Aldo Novarese]
034. Scala [1991 — Mar­tin Majoor]
035. Syn­tax [1968 — Hans Eduard Meier]
036. Joanna [1930 — Eric Gill]
037. Fleis­chmann TT [1997 — Erhard Kaiser]
038. Palatino [1950 — Her­mann Zapf]
039. Baskerville [1754 — John Baskerville]
040. Fedra [2002 — Peter Bil’ak]
041. Gotham [2000 — Tobias Frere-Jones]
042. Lex­i­con PS [1992 — Bram De Does]
043. Hands PS [1991 — Let­ter­ror]
044. Metro [1929 — W. A. Dwig­gins]
045. Didot [1799 — Firmin Didot]
046. For­mata [1984 — Bernd MФllenstДdt]
047. Caslon [1725 — William Caslon]
048. Cooper Black [1920 — Oswald B. Cooper]
049. Peignot [1937 — A. M. Cas­san­dre]
050. Bell Gothic [1938 — Chauncey H. Grif­fith]
051. Antique Olive [1962 — Roger Excof­fon]
052. Wil­helm Klngspor Gotisch [1926 — Rudolf Koch]
053. Info PS [1996 — Erik Spiek­er­mann]
054. Dax [1995 — Hans Reichel]
055. Pro­forma [1988 — Petr van Blok­land]
056. Today Sans [1988 — Volker KБster]
057. Prokyon [2002 — Erhard Kaiser]
058. Trade Gothic [1948 — Jack­son Burke]
059. Swift [1987 — Ger­ald Unger]
060. Cop­per­plate Gothic [1901 — Fred­eric W. Goudy]
061. Blur PS [1992 — Neville Brody]
062. Base [1995 — Zuzana Licko]
063. Bell Cen­ten­nial [1978 — Matthew Carter]
064. News Gothic [1908 — Mor­ris Fuller Ben­ton]
065. Avenir [1988 — Adrian Frutiger]
066. Bern­hard Mod­ern [1937 — Lucian Bern­hard]
067. Ampli­tude PS-TT [2003 — Chris­t­ian Schwartz]
068. Trixie [1991 — Erik van Blok­land]
069. Quadraat PS [1992 — Fred Smei­jers]
070. Neu­traface [2002 — Chris­t­ian Schwartz]
071. Nobel [1929 — Sjo­erd de Roos]
072. Indus­tria [1990 — Neville Brody]
073. Bick­ham Script [1997 — Richard Lip­ton]
074. Bank Gothic [1930 — Mor­ris Fuller Ben­ton]
075. Cor­po­rate ASE PS [1989 — Kurt Wei­de­mann]
076. Fago [2000 — Ole Schafer]
077. Tra­jan [1989 — Carol Twombly]
078. Kabel [1927 — Rudolf Koch]
079. House Gothic 23 [1995 — Tal Lem­ing]
080. Kos­mik [1993 — Let­ter­ror]
081. Cae­cilia PMN [1990 — Peter Matthias Noordzij]
082. Mrs Eaves [1996 — Zuzana Licko]
083. Cor­pid PS [1997 — Lucas de Groot]
084. Miller [1997 — Matthew Carter]
085. Sou­venir [1914 — Mor­ris Fuller Ben­ton]
086. Instant Types PS [1992 — Just van Rossum]
087. Claren­don [1845 — Ben­jamin Fox]
088. Triplex [1989 — Zuzana Licko]
089. Ben­guiat [1989 — Ed Ben­guiat]
090. Zapf Renais­sance PS [1984 — Her­mann Zapf]
091. Filosofia [1996 — Zuzana Licko]
092. Chalet [1996 — House Indus­tries]
093. Quay Sans PS [1990 — David Quay]
094. Cézanne [1995 — Michael Want, J Grieshaber]
095. Reporter [1938 — Car­los Winkow]
096. Legacy [1992 — Ronald Arn­holm]
097. Agenda [1993 — Greg Thomp­son]
098. Bello [2004 — Under­ware]
099. Dal­liance [2000 — Frank Heine]
100. Mis­tral [1953 — Roger Excoffon]

Most times, the peo­ple that inspire us are peo­ple that we have never even come in con­tact with phys­i­cally but have just admired their work from a dis­tance.  Through­out my own per­sonal work, I have been blessed to meet some great tal­ented peo­ple who truly embody what an artist is.  Hans Poppe def­i­nitely falls into this cat­e­gory, and today he sur­prised me with one of his pieces, and the ORIGINAL at that!  Very hon­ored, and am hum­bled by his tal­ents, greatly.

We once again chopped it up (long eh?) in front of Fairview for a good while, and when he starts going on about art, all you could do is lis­ten.  And at one point, while speak­ing of Van Gogh, he said “It’s like lis­ten­ing to music, with your eyes” bam bam!

And now, my new baby

can’t wait to get it framed.

I blogged about this tal­ented artist at the begin­ning of Feb­ru­ary and he has so much stuff that I was plan­ning to just leak out bits and bits for you lazy arses that are too bum to actu­ally go to his website!

So here is more for you enjoy­ing pleasure

www.chrisbrett.ca

still MORE to come…

A cou­ple months ago, Charles Gary did a piece of me called ‘Dev­ils Advo­cate’ and always had it in his mind that he wanted to do a part II to it by doing the other.  And so he has finally fin­ished what he labels ‘Angels Advo­cate’.  The orig­i­nal is huge, just sucks that I have to scale it down for blog post­ing pur­poses, cause it doesn’t do it jus­tice!  Big ups to CG, always eager to see what you have stored up next

I came across this guy on Face­book and was instantly drawn to his work.  Maybe it’s because I aspired to be a car­toon­ist when I was younger, and Chris’ work has those ele­ments in his work.  Regard­less of why, it’s just ILL and the fact that he’s from Toronto to is even more iller.  So now I intro­duce to you, Chris Brett

www.chrisbrett.ca

more to come…

Although he knows who Picasso is, he doesn’t want to become the next Picasso, but replies “Monet or Edward Seago”.

Liv­ing in Holt, Nor­folk, Kieron has become quite the notice­able artis­tic phe­nom.  How many 7-year old kids do you know sell out an exhibit in less than 14 min­utes?  Or even have a wait­ing list of over 600+ peo­ple to grab an orig­i­nal Kieron mas­ter­piece?  Let alone, buy­ing it for £900 and up.  Could prob­a­bly say not many at all, but that’s where Kieron Williamson comes in and takes the spotlight.

His dad Keith, a for­mer elec­tri­cian, was vic­tim to a seri­ous acci­dent about 2 years ago which affected his abil­ity to be as mobile as he once was.  This forced him to take up new hob­bies, one being col­lect­ing art which then influ­enced his son Kieron to start tak­ing it up.

One look at his work and it’s hard to even fathom what Kieron will be cre­at­ing in the next 5 years and more, if he even decides to stick with it.  I’m sure like every other kid with an amaz­ing tal­ent, will come either over-demanding par­ents or media who will taint this kid’s pas­sion to do what he’s ever so good at.  Let’s hope that doesn’t come to be, and I could blog another piece about this kid in the next num­ber of years to high­light even more new and amaz­ing masterpieces

Some of his work

After Gli­man by Kieron Williamson

Fig­ures at Holkham by Kieron Williamson

Boat at half way house by Kieron Williamson

Orig­i­nal Arti­cle here :

http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2009/dec/29/boy-paints-like-old-master

Always a treat to see what Charles Gary’s next piece is, and this one he titled ‘Open Minded’.  I love when pas­sion­ate artists cre­ate, because it only inspires me to step my own game up and take things to a new level.  If you want me to size this down into wall­pa­per sizes that best fit your mon­i­tor set­tings, send me a PM.

‘Shells of Their For­mer Selves’

Newsprint, Acrylic and Oil on Masonite Board
26.5" x 34.5"

I woke up this after­noon to a new piece crafted by Hans Poppe, almost bet­ter than break­fast itself!  This is the type of stuff that I love to see, and would most def­i­nitely hang on my hall­way walls.  Love it, bigups to HP

www.hanspoppe.com