The Brilliant creative team blog

This guys work really does take me back to print making classes, having to spend hours carving into blocks of wood and leather with various tools only to be rewarded with mangled fingers and a print relief that looked nothing like you had hoped... I really hated those classes!

Mark Evans seems to love all that stuff, his work is so detailed it has to be seen for yourself, plus he seems big on knives and sharp things.

He also has a really nice logo: www.markevansart.com.

OK, this may be two month old news but it's the first time I have seen this, how I don't know, guess I should buy a newspaper once in a while.

So an artist/painter & decorator in Sofia, Bulgaria has vandalized a monument depicting Russia's Red army "liberation" of Bulgaria from the Nazi's during world war 2, causing a lot of of debate and controversy only to end up being dubbed "The Bulgarian Banksy"... doh!

My history isn't the best but I'm pretty sure the Bulgarians were allies to the Germans during WWII and that no German soldiers were stationed in Bulgaria... so how the country was liberated, I honestly don't know? I do know that the Russian's "moved in" for a few decades of what some would call oppression.

Some people will be for it and others against it, I for one don't see a problem with the art since the scene being depicted never really took place, in fact I find the irony of the original statue to be quite creative in a propagandistic type of way. I do however feel bad for the soldier that's been painted to look like Wonder Woman, just not cool.

Anon quote: "Monuments to Russia's dominance over Bulgaria are fair game to graffiti artists these days."

This is a nice little video with 29 ways to stay creative.

So if you are ever stuck for ideas or inspiration simply follow the video, cram as many in as you can and your creative block will be lifted!

Stanley Chow is an Illustrator and Caricaturist that I have admired for a very long time. His style is very clean with sharp lines and excellent use of block colours with each piece looking as well designed as it has been illustrated. There are simply too many amazing pieces especially when you can buy most of his prints from his online cartel shop... I will, one day buy a print of "I love Leeloo" (an orange haired Milla Jovovich from the film The Fifth Element)!

Visit his portfolio.