BIZARRE MAGAZINE NO. 146 FEBRUARY 2009

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Courtney Lee Designs: Rainbow Infusion: Version 1. Digital Painting & Drawing, iPad Pro / Procreate. Yasha Young Projects Sculpture Award While, upon closer inspection, this may seem like a legit magazine about people who like to hold a lot of meetings, its abbreviated title – OMFG – is enough for it to belong on this list. Imagine all the people who bought an issue, and only realised once they got home that it’s not about millennials texting each other with gossip about who hooked up with whom. Top Tenz Christopher Hanson: The Great Indoors. Oil on linen Grand Prize Winner of the 2023 Beautiful Bizarre Art Prize

Winning artwork printed in the December 2023 issue of Beautiful Bizarre Magazine, as part of the Beautiful Bizarre Art Prize editorial. We also take a keep dive into Alessandra Maria’s work, where the figures depicted are portrayed with very soft features. Paying homage to Renaissance drawings, Alessandra uses her chosen medium’s advantage, shading lightly enough for facial features to emerge but not dark enough to fall into the shadowy depths of the charcoal’s true nature. Austin Allen: Radiance. Traditional painting, Liquid Watercolour and Ink. Grand Prize Winner of the 2023 Beautiful Bizarre Art Prize Gentle Embrace’ by Joanna Pilarczyk (Oil, acrylic, spray paint on canvas) RAYMAR Traditional Art AwardAustin Lubetkin: The Girl with a Neon Earring. Digital painting, Photoshop, Sketchup. Mary Noga: Queen. Mixed media on canvas. Jeff Kristian: Why won’t you put the bottle down, Ed? Graphite, Acrylic, Oil, Ink, Feathers. People’s Choice Award Now it’s time for the biggest reveal yet! Below we unveil the Grand Prize Winner of the 2022 Beautiful Bizarre Art Prize, the seven Honourable Mentionsselected by each of this year’s wonderful gold sponsors, Directors of Modern Eden Gallery in San Francisco, and our Editor-in-Chief Danijela Krha Purssey, PLUS the Winner of the ArtStation People’s Choice Award, which saw our amazing community contribute over 11,586 votes from 106 different countries! Let your voice be heard! The People’s Choice Award Winner will receive a year’s worth of social media advertising through the Beautiful Bizarre Magazine socials to ensure they are able to connect with the right audience of engaged creatives, collectors and gallerists, raise their profile, associate their work with other leading creatives, and of course to grow their social media following.

Oh. Yeah. Please, I need all of the news about tiny versions of airplanes that nobody can actually fly in! Phshh. Crave Online

The opportunity to exhibit in the prestigious annual Beautiful Bizarre Magazine exhibition alongside 80+ of the world’s best contemporary representational artists at Modern Eden Gallery, in San Francisco, CA, USA. Remember: there are now five award categories. If you work in any style of the representational visual arts and any of these mediums you can enter: Traditional Art [pencil, charcoal, pastels, ink, oils, acrylic, watercolour, mixed media, etc.], Sculpture [all materials], Digital Art, and Photography [digital or analogue]. Additionally, we also have the new Emerging Artist award category which is open to all of the above mediums. USD cash, generously donated by RAYMAR, creators of the finest panels! Panels are their passion. They craft their panels with the world’s finest materials to serve as the foundation for your artwork. Exhibit in the prestigious annual Beautiful Bizarre Magazine exhibition alongside 80+ of the world’s best contemporary representational artists at Modern Eden Gallery, in San Francisco, CA USA

Bizarre covered alternative culture through interviews with counterculture personages, and articles about the Occult, LGBT culture and drug, fetish and other subcultures. It also reviewed the work of avant-garde directors, musicians, authors and visual artists.All joking aside, it is quite fascinating that this industry has such an exhaustive, well-written glossy mag to service it. We take public utilities like portable restrooms for granted nowadays, but when you think about it, how awful would any given music festival be without this invention? How many times has a portajohn saved you from shitting yourself in public? Give these guys some love because, along with electricians, sewer workers and submarine network field technicians (https://www.ciena.com/insights/articles/A-Miserable-Day-in-the-Life-of-a-Submarine-Field-Technician-prx.html), they are real heroes living amongst us. [9] 1 Crappie Now! There still is a tension between the two versions of my own art and storytelling – the lighter and the darker versions. Katie Gamb The Beautiful Bizarre Art Prize is administered by Australian based, international contemporary art magazine, Beautiful Bizarre Magazine. We hope you have enjoyed our week of reveals! The Winners of each Award [ RAYMAR Traditional Art Award, Yasha Young Projects Sculpture Award, INPRNT Photography Award, iCanvas Digital Art Award] have now been announced. Aren’t they all incredible?

Halcyon Days’ opens on 5 November and the Editor-in-Chief and Deputy Editor of Beautiful Bizarre Magazine will be in attendance. We hope to see many of you at the special opening reception! We also highlight more of the artisan fashion designers that have caught the eye of our Deputy Editorand Editor-in-Chief, in this Issue’s Some of our Favourite Things editorial. Stonehart Jewelry Michelle Hébert Anastasia Liebe Zeynep Tosun AKI WIG Couture Máscaras de Alambre Yinsey Wang: My Renaissance. Digital Art. Canon EOS 6D Mark II and Adobe Photoshop 2022. Entei Ryu: Metamorphosis. Sculpture. Resin, mineral pigments, whitewash, acrylic paint, copper foil Morgan Serreno East: Uprising. Traditional Art. Acrylic and Oil paint on birch panel. People’s Choice Award Yes, it’s for real. Yes, yes, I saved the best for last. So if you’re looking to prank your conservative relatives with the subscription to a magazine that could potentially scar them for life… you’re welcome. Girls And Corpses Umm. I guess I get it. But the existence of this magazine definitely raises more questions than it answers. Like, ‘Seriously?’ And, ‘Was the internet not ENOUGH?’ Crave OnlineBizarre was a British alternative magazine published from 1997 to 2015. [2] It was published by Dennis Publishing and was a sister publication to Fortean Times. [ citation needed] History [ edit ] So without further ado, it is with great pleasure and much pride that we share with you the Grand Prize Winner of the 2022 Beautiful Bizarre Art Prize, the Honourable Mentions, and the Winner of the ArtStation People’s Choice Award. Grand Prize Winner 2022 Beautiful Bizarre Art Prize Kristin Kwan If you are an emerging artist that works in a representational style, in any 2 or 3 dimensional traditional medium, digital medium or photographic medium, you are eligible to enter the Beautiful Bizarre Magazine Founders’ Emerging Artist Award. The Beautiful Bizarre Art Prize is a non-acquisitive art prize which provides an amazing opportunity for traditional and digital 2D + 3D artists, and photographers to: Umm. Okay. Even if I overlooked the fact that they created a whole publication for sheep, what on EARTH is that exclamation mark about?! Who is this excited about SHEEP? People literally count this very animal when they’re trying to fall asleep! Crave Online