Jerrell Conner

A great Kickstarter campaign.  It was unsuccessful, but possessed many great qualities.  This artists is a graphic novelist and illustrator.  I like his use of color and would love to learn more about digital illustration. 

Levi Van Veluw

Levi Van Veluw uses ballpoint pens to draw on the figure.  I really love work that utilizes the human figure.  For my next body of work I would like to use some imagery of vines (but more like a blob or virus type of imagery) over taking the body.  I plan to use hands and feet rather than faces, but I will be coming back to Levi for more inspiration.

Miss Bugs

I just stumbled upon Miss Bugs' work today and am quite amazed with her outdoor graffiti style installations.  They are unique and attention grabbing.  I think this work related to my work in that it inspires me to get my work into the community, beyond exhibitions.  I am not sure what exactly this would mean, but I would love to create some sort of viral image that spread around a town (I do have some ideas, but execution is the challenge.).

Leah Hardy

I had Leah for a couple foundation art classes and have always enjoyed her work.  I like the intimate nature of her metal work as well as the use of manipulated body imagery.  The piece below is interesting because it certainly draws from book arts and shows how many fields one artist can cross into.

Gift (open and closed)

See more of Leah's work on the University of Wyoming site.