Paintings by Erika Yamashiro
Artist Love: Ena
Ena is an illustrator from Japan. She does all of her work on the computer, in fact it was her art that first inspired me to start doing digital illustrations myself. Her girls are luscious and mysterious formed from delicate bezier curves in a stunning monochromatic palette. Pure magic.
All images copyright Ena. See more at her website: ena-web.com
Artist Love: Makiko Sugawa
Makiko Sugawa is a Japanese illustrator whose highly detailed line drawings are both playful and provocative. She has a way of effortlessly mixing the two qualities with an end result that makes you wonder how one ever could exist without the other.
Many of her images feature women with prosthetic or amputated limbs, this a reflection of the artist’s real life, as Makiko herself has a prosthetic leg. There is a striking contrast of beautiful women dressed in layers of lace and erotic lingerie with the sometimes robotic imagery of a mechanical leg.
The spur of the moment aspect found in her drawings, makes one feel as if we are stealing small glimpses of these ingenues’ romantic and fantastical lives.
All images copyright Makiko Sugawa. See more at her website: Ladie’s Time
Landscapes with a Corpse | Izima Kaoru
Izima Kaoru is a Japanese photographer currently living and working in Tokyo, Japan. Since 1993 he has been photographing actresses and models in staged fantasies of their perfect death. He has each woman choose the designer clothes they want to be wearing when they die. The end results are these breathtaking scenes, where the very things that are disturbing are the same that make the photos so gripping.
“The death of a beautiful woman is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world.” – Edgar Allen Poe
Junko Mizuno for Judith Lacroix Tshirts
Junko Mizuno teamed up with French label Judith Lacroix to release a small edition of tshirts featuring Junko’s characters. The tshirts have some of her most popular designs reworked with new colors, glitter!! and french phrases. The first tshirt on the top is amazing. I absolutely love the red glitter and the teal blue combination. I really want to buy it except for the fact that the tshirts are priced at 49 euros and that exchanges to a little over $75 USD!!! I love Junko and have spent A LOT of money hunting down her toys on ebay, buying out of print manga and all of the typical crazy super fandom, but $75 for a tshirt is too much for me atleast now. But my birthay is around the corner. Anyone anyone?
Visit Judith Lacroix for more info and purchase the tshirts.