Backseat Driver, 2007 oil on board/rearview mirror/air freshner

Honeymoon Sweet | Seeing Red, 2006. Oil on canvas / 11 x 14

Am loving the work of Chicago-based artist Ken Keirns. His bio reads: “Ken Keirns was born on the thirteenth of November. Shortly after that he decided that growing up was not such a good idea. He has always wanted to be an artist, except for that short-lived stunt man period when he was nine.”

From “Hot Babes” painted on board and framed inside Fisher Price Toy TV sets to wickedly designed doors with whores, there’s really no limits to Ken Keirn’s talents. Most of his artworks depict women, spectacularly characterized with long necks and rather large heads. And, more often than not, each female portrayal transmits an array of sensations, in all art flavors: this could be either painting, illustration, sculpture,animation, book or a very beautifully smooth doll.

Keirns’ incredibly diverse artworks are part of Subtext’s “The Witching Hour” exhibition which is on right now, until November 1st. Many of his pieces showcased there, you can see after the jump. Along with some works originally shown at the Hot Babes In Toyland Show 2007, Chicago, IL. more…

Diesel’s Creative Team (under the direction of Wilbert Das) recently held a fashion show based on an aquatic theme entitled “Liquid Space” and brought together Barcelona animation studio Dvein – who worked on the CGI visual effects and 3D animations – and Danish multi-media production agency, Vizoo , who provided the innovative technology for the show, which they had created themselves. The show featured 3D holographic sea creatures accompanying the fashion designs. The art is stunning, luminous and very fluid, like creatures from the deep sea or another world. While regular human models paced up and down the runway, a host of polyp-like CGI characters appeared in mid-air to interact with them within an underwater landscape and viewable from both sides of the stage. Check out a video from this event:

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• Arthur de Pins

French artist Arthur de Pins is one of my favourite living illustrators today. Arthur graduated from the Ecole nationale supérieure des arts décoratifs in Paris in 2000. He has since worked to numerous projects as animator, illustrator, character designer, and director. De Pins multi-medium artistic style is fluid; all his works contain a very strong vectorial and clean graphic simplicity that is shared from one medium to the next. Some of his beautifully rendered illustrations contain stereotype characters, doing stereotypical things - many too, are glamorous, terribly sexy, humorous, bold and colorfully delightful. His excellent online portfolio contains over 180 illustrations of cartoons, sexy comics, advertising, posters, cute pin-ups, caricatures, and a plethora of other illustrations to see. There is also the animation part with 23 works, composed of very short flash videos, animations for sites and three funny short video to boot. Here is a nice video compilation of his illustrations, that you might want to view.

Info: you can view Arthur’s online portfolio here, the site contains adult material that is not suitable for children and is NSFW .

View [50] more of these stunning illustrations by de Pins, after the jump. more…