Baltimore's Best (Or...3 artists I really like from my current town)

Ryan Selvy

I first met Ryan Selvy randomly through a friend for approximately one and a half minutes. In that time, I would have never guessed the artistic talent this kid had, though. I discovered his blog through Facebook and have been in love ever since. He's a comic person. And he's darn good. 

Photo courtesy of ryanselvy.com

What I like about Ryan's comics is that, because he's my age, a lot of his opinions and views on things are the same. It's easy to relate to his content. His comics often reflect what's happening on the internet or a stupid trend. Like this one about Twitter, or another one he posted about the highly popular and annoying "Call me maybe." I also like the simplicity of his comics and his use of textures. It makes a simple line drawing more interesting. His comics are definitely worth a look see.

Josh Van Horne

I came across Josh Van Horne's work on Tumblr while I was browsing through the "Baltimore Artists" tag. When I first saw his art, it didn't have a huge impact on me. What I really like about him, though, is his circuit installations.

The title of this is "If you say something, see something." I really like the play on words. And it's so unexpected to see the lights come out of the middle of this shape. It's a nice surprise. This installation is in downtown Baltimore. Although Van Horne isn't from Baltimore, this is where he works. He also did a mural for the Open Walls Baltimore project, which is how I found my next artist!

Gaia

Street art is one of my favorite things in the whole entire world. I have this fascination with graffiti and murals. Especially the ones found in cities, like in downtown Baltimore. He curated this past year's Open Walls Baltimore, and is by far my favorite in the project.

This is his piece from the Open Walls project. A lot of Gaia's pieces involve hands intertwining or sketchy looking drawings on buildings and the detail on them is just absolutely amazing. I would love to one day be able to do this sort of mural. And for funsies, here's my favorite Gaia mural.  

This was one of our online assignments, but I liked it so much I decided to post it. Let me know what you think!