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This guy is certainly no toon. His messages are serious about the current state of society. Well actually not that serious, D’Face has been making and creating for nearly a decade now, and he certainly has not wasted anytime.  With a folio ranging from raw street art, to so-called sophisticated gallery work. D’Face is a part of a new breed of artists, who are embraced for their street style art work, and are admired by many a stuck up their own arse, art critics and groupie& ...

This weeks TOONSDAY feature is dedicated to the talent that is Jon Burgermen.  Burgermen’s abstract line drawings are reminiscent of great artist such as Joan Miro (1893-1983), yet without the air of melancholy often associated with artist of the time. Burgermen’s uplifting busy drawings are rife with  exaggerated expression and mischief, have created a cult following of art which  is splayed across almost any canvas, from vinyl toys, street walls, appa ...

Your in for a treat this week you lucky beggars, as were doubling up on this TOONSDAY by bringing two great artists to your attention.
 
Both relatively similar in style (differnt in art era) , and possibly similar in their message, here are some of my most favourites pieces by SKINNER and Hieronymus Bosch.
 
Skinner’s majestic composition, are built up of an intelligent use of patterns and textures to create an intense often medieval scene or scenario. Skinner can be ...

Here at Fruit Salad we are all great fans of art, graphics, and illustrations of all kinds( kindly demonstrated by our apparel). So we’ve rightly fully decided to dedicated every Tuesday to young, old, aspiring, and even some of our own art/artists work and document it through our blog. So stay tooned,  and check back every Tuesday.



I couldn’t think of a better way to start our first Toonsday, by documenting some of my very own(self loving/loathing)  twist ...