Colette Calascione has a way with wood. Oil on wood, that is.
Perhaps the medium accounts for the glow and richness of her colors, but the subject matter is the product of a magnificently disturbed imagination. Calascione’s paintings combine surrealist imagery with classical themes and 19th century illustration for a clever mix of humor and decadence,  […]

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Sculptor Lisa Black’s portfolio on the Behance Network is definitely skating the edge of the socially acceptable. Of course, that’s only if gutted animals ornamented with 19th century-looking metal gadgetry bothers you.
Steampunk Taxidermy may be a new one to you, but after the weirdness wears off there’s a lot of craft to be appreciated here. […]

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Artist Yuji Moriguchi mixes Manga with traditional Japanese painting to create bizarre sexual imagery that is as rich as it is decadent. Tipping his hat to great Japanese masters like Hokusai, Moriguchi infuses tradition, mysticism, voyeurism, bestiality, and mundane reality with a modernist touch in a combination that shouldn’t make sense, but somehow does.
…I had […]

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