Mike Stilkey - grande scoperta!

Today I was exploring art via internet to get the ideas for my new photo project. And then... I discovered this artist that impressed me! 2 or 3 years ago I had an idea to paint on shoes. Yeah, I already paint on shoes, but I had the other type of idea :) I wanted to put 100 pairs of shoes on the wall and then paint. It would be an enormous painting and also so non precise - but because of that it would be great. But I didn't do it, I don't know why. I was considering the idea with my ex room mate, also a painter and we attributed that "silly" idea to our tiredness and maybe non-sleeping for a week because the exams so I didn't realize it. And then... I discovered this fenomenal artist today. He paints on the books. Yeah, you read well - not the books, on the books! 

This Californian artist uses ink, acrylic paint and colored pencils to show his creativity. He paints not only on the vintage paper, but on the books directly! His installation paintings (I really don't know how to call them, I'm amused!) can be big almost as a room where are exposed.

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His illustration and a little bit Tim Burton style impressed me. And the use of unconventional technique as well! He combines illustration with the books - it goes really great together. Of course I can define it as an idea how 2 arts can go perfectly together. I love books (without the book I think I couldn't live!) and I say very often: "The people who doesn't read aren't people". And it's true.
So this genial artist combined 2 things that I looove ❤ ❤ ❤ and made the coolest thing that I've seen in a while...
I love this horror-Tim Burtonish style of his works. I connect this style with a haunting house with a great library that have some secret hallway behind :) And I think that he wanted to arouse such a feeling. Ok, I said enough times that I love his art. 
I go back to work now.❦

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