3D Psychedelic Art

Continuing with our psychedelic art series, today I have another interesting psychedelically inspired artist that recently caught my eye. Based in Miami, mixed media artist Jen Stark has created a series of wonderful, swirling, psychedelic art sculptures using colored paper. This is some cool visionary art. These creations must take forever to create. They would make for great 3D psychedelic wall art I think. Apart from creating these incredible sculptures Jen is also a talented drawer and video producer. To see more of her work and other psychedelic pictures visit her website.

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Myotas Online Art Generator

Another recent psychedelic art discovery of mine has been the fractal art generating software of Myoats. Now I know there are number of high quality fractal generators available these days but what makes this one different is that it can all be done online. Strictly speaking these are not true fractals, perhaps mandalas would be a better word to use. However the software is open ended enough for you to create any kind of artwork imaginable.







What is cool about it is that it allows anyone out there to create mandala like art without any need for artistic skills whatsoever. Just click and drag your mouse around the screen and the application will instantly create reflections for you resulting in a nice symmetrical slice of trippy art work. Pretty cool huh !

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Psychedelic Scientists

Australian resident and graphic designer Simon Bent has produced a series of psychedelic pictures that celebrate famous scientists of years gone by. The work displays a decidedly 1960's psychedelic art feel reminiscent of old 60's psychedelic bill posters or the colorful world of Peter Max.






It's impressive how Simon has managed to take those facial features which are instantly accessible in our memories and fill those features with minimalistic yet hypnotic splashes of color and psychedelic whimsy. Two visionary thumbs up sir for your psychedelic scientists ! For more trippy art in his 60's psychedelic art .vs. scientists gallery visit Simon's website over at v2a.

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The Art Of Isaac Abrams

Another recent art find has been the work of Isaac Abrams. I was very pleased to run across Isaac's website as I find his flowing, bubbly psychedelic artwork to be somewhat similar to my own work at times. Mind you, Isaac is a far better painter than I could hope to be at the moment 8)

Isaac was born and raised in the New York area. He is a self-taught artist with an academic background in literature, history, science and psychology. He founded the first gallery of Psychedelic Art in the world in 1965.

He began working as a self-taught painter in the beginning of 1966 and then worked as a sculptor in the 1970's. During the 1980s he also began extensive work as an animation artist.

Abrams was the former owner of Coda Gallery. The Coda Gallery was noted for its introduction of Psychedelic Art into the mainstream of American media consciousness. He studied in Austria under the tutelage of Ernst Fuchs whose school and method of painting runs in an unbroken line of students and teachers from Albrecht Durer to the present.

He begins his work with a series of loosely conceived juxtapositions and then discovers in those juxtapositions the metaphysical and cosmic concepts which are so often expressed in his art. Right on !

Check out more of Issac work at the Isaac Abrams website.

Hapshash Takes a Trip: The sixties work of Nigel Waymouth

Anyone here with an eye for the psychedelic art of the 1960/70s might by interested to know that London based arts and culture promotion company Idea Generation is presenting an exhibition by Nigel Waymouth of legendary art group Hapshash and the Coloured Coat.

Nigel, along with partner Michael English, was responsible for some of the 60s psychedelic generation's most famous images. Aside from the pair's more popular creations, fans will be treated to a series of images from Nigel's own collection , many of which have never been presented before or have not had a showing in over 20 years .

The Nigel Waymouth exhibition will run from September 9th to October 2nd 2011 at the Idea Generation Gallery, London.

More details can be found at the Idea Generation website.

Here is some of Nigel's work to wet your appetite :

Buy Psychedelic Money Art

With world economies falling over every other day it is refreshing to see a new economy on the rise - the psychedelic one. Amsterdam artist Dadara has been thinking long and hard about how to get people thinking about money in a more responsible and enlightening way. The answer - psychocash ! Over at The Exchanghibition Bank, Dadara is offering a number of psychedelic banknotes which can be exchanged ( at reasonable rates ) for Euros.

The notes themselves are beautiful works of art which you can invest in. Funds raised through the exchange of Exhanghibition money will go towards supporting Dadara's dream of creating a huge swimming pool full of a million bank notes that people can swim around in at this year's Burning Man Festival.



Here are few samples of the psychedelic money art banknotes.



Exchange Rate Zero : € 5.00

Exchange Rate Million : € 2.50

Exchange Rate Infinite : € 7.50











































































It's kind of interesting that the exchange rate for the 'zero' bill is higher than that of '1 million'. It could be part of standard psychedelic monetary policy I guess. All sounds very interesting don't you think.



One thing is for sure - the economy of psychedelic money is one that won't be requiring any government handouts.

Psychedelic Pictures

Psychedelic pictures and images from around the web. Here I'd like to present to you a list of my favorite psychedelic picture resources. Apart from mixing psychill and psybient music, psychedelic art is another passion that consumes a fair chunk of my time. If I'm not drawing it I'm usually reading about it's history, the artists backgrounds and their inspirations for the psychedelic pictures they come up with.

To begin with, one of the best psychedelic art repositories you can visit these days is psychedelicart.com. This site is contains a massive collection of old retro psychedelic bill posters from the 60s and 70s. Each of the psychedelic posters can be viewed in detail along with information relating to it such as the artists name, bands promoted, venue and production date. An excellent site for inspiration for you next psychedelic picture.

Next you might want to check out the visionary artists vault over at Erowid.com. This is a commercial free site that includes an enormous amount of artwork from psychedelic artists around the world. You can spend hours here browsing through the directories ! Both amateur and professional psychedelic artist works can be found here. For a quick overview select the curator's picks link for a fine selection of free psychedelic pictures.

Some eight years ago I signed up at a little website called DeviantArt.Com. I joined the then newly formed psychedelic art forum and started uploading art. It's amazing to look back now and see just how far the site has come. From it's humble beginnings into a fully fledged internet star. DeviantArt has been helping to promote artists of kinds for many years now and psychedelic artists are well represented there ( if you can ignore all the dodgy anime stuff ! ) . What I like about it is the supportive communities that form there where you can swap ideas and drawing/painting techniques and materials. I've have learned so much from the other psychedelic artists there and continue to do so each week. Have a look today - there is a lot of great trippy art to be found in their galleries.

Another visionary art archive with a number of psychedelic pictures is the Society for Art of Imagination website. This is a excellent storehouse of imaginative and sacred art that is of the highest quality.

Speaking of sacred art, one site that actively encourages its members to share their spiritual creations is Lila.com. This is an excellent portal that can keep you up to date on the latest news in the visionary and psychedelic art worlds. There you can find lots of articles, artist interviews, and extensive online gallery of psychedelic pics and exhibition schedules.

Another huge surreal gallery with a good number of psychedelic pictures is the Surreal Art Collective at beinArt.org. This is a very well supported sight with active forums that allow you to get in contact with fellow artists to share ideas. One of the central aims of beinArt.org is to show the work of internationally renowned artists like HR Giger, Ron English, Ernst Fuchs, Robert Williams, Mark Ryden, Lori Earley, Paul Booth, Laurie Lipton, Michael Hussar, Chet Zar, Chris Mars, Liz Mcgrath and Alex Grey with the work of lesser known, though extraordinary artists.

Well those are a few of the sights that I can remember off hand. There is plenty of inspiration to be found among their pages so I hope you find something worthwhile there. If you happen to know of any other similar sites with psychedelic pictures or psychedelic images, let me know and I'll add them to the list. Cheers.

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New Psychedelic Art Drawing

Here is a new psychedelic art drawing ( left ) I recently completed titled "balance and decay". Click the image to see a full size detailed version.

I'm a big fan of psychedelic art, especially the works of late 60s and early 70s psychedelic artists that were designing concert posters for psychedelic rock bands at that time. Some of my favorite artists include Wes Wilson, Stanley Mouse, Rick Griffin, Alton Kelley and Martin Sharp. If you are a fan of psychedelic art and would like to promote some work get in touch with me and I'll be more than happy to share them here on the psyamb site.

These guys made use of art nouveau styles and mixed them with psychedelic colors and flowing, morphing text to create some amazing trippy art masterpieces. The effect was both brilliantly psychedelic and informative with their well though out design elements. The original psychedelic posters now sell for hundreds and hundreds of dollars ! Even some of the reprints can fetch a tidy sum ! A great book to check out if you are into this style of psychedelic art is "High Art" by Ted Owen. I picked this up at a bookstore here is Osaka a number of years ago and it has become a real treasure in my psychedelic art book collection.