Who says Facebook doesnt have its uses...

I have tendancies to spend entire nights plonked in front of the laptop, getting annoyed at all the rubbish on facebook, and yet finding myself unable to tear myself away from it. For the first time (possibly ever) though, facebook has shown its usefulness, when a southern aquaintance of mine posted a link to an artist who had done portraits of his Mrs and himself...

http://iamatrapstar.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/Nina-Kate-sm-819x1024.jpg

http://www.google.co.uk/imgres?imgurl=http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_qaaoo8tBRTI/S7fd4au-ZpI/AAAAAAAAAds/aNdL2HctTi8/s1600/Latex.jpg&imgrefurl=http://graffoto1.blogspot.com/2010/04/alex-young-portraits-of-alter-egos.html&usg=__Xvk8NmXnhme_qC93OhQvUjTQTyw=&h=1600&w=1295&sz=253&hl=en&start=3&zoom=1&um=1&itbs=1&tbnid=TR0jMSV-ZyUtdM:&tbnh=150&tbnw=121&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dalex%2Byoung%2BStitch%2BD%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26tbs%3Disch:1&ei=EQCJTYzWAoSGhQeU-8jCDQ


The artist is Alex Young and he uses spray paint on canvas, and has been obviously inspired by pointilism to create this unconventional style. Its an interesting technique, and I especially like how the drips and spatter have a kind of "accidentally on purpose" quality to them.