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Looking back: TTP Repartee with Featured Artist Raudiel Sañudo

Monday, May 20th, 2013 | By: Ben

Raudiel Sañudo, Nature’s at the Front Door In case you missed it, Raudiel Sañudo is our current featured artist here at Thumbtack Press. That means we’re offering 15% off his work (use code SOOT at checkout) until the end of May! I wanted to post a chat Raudiel and I did back in March of last [...]


TTP Repartee: Newest Thumbtack Press Artist Amy DeVoogd

Thursday, April 25th, 2013 | By: Ben

Amy DeVoogd, Bicycle Chicago-based illustrator Amy DeVoogd‘s work is all over the place, from newspapers and magazines to product packaging, advertising campaigns, and more. We’re thrilled to be working with her to offer high-quality prints on Thumbtack Press and her initial offering here shows why: Cities, fashion, bikes, bags, couples, energy, design, style – it’s city [...]


Introducing: El Gato Chimney

Friday, April 19th, 2013 | By: Ben

  El Gato Chimney, La Casa Della Polvere Surrealism isn’t dead and we can prove it. Remember when people thought surrealism had run its course, like it was some kind of fad? The bellbottoms of art?? Pffffffft. Please help us welcome El Gato Chimney to Thumbtack Press. His work is proof that surrealism is as [...]


Artists Talking: Q&A With El Gato Chimney

Thursday, April 18th, 2013 | By: Ben

El Gato Chimney, El Base E La Scala Italian artist El Gato Chimney is the newest artist we’re working with to offer high-quality, affordable art prints. We were immediately interested in collaborating with El Gato when we saw the way his work translated into a huge range of  mediums. His surreal works elevated cabinets and walls into [...]


Artists Talking: Newest Thumbtack Press Artist Stefano Zattera Part I

Tuesday, January 22nd, 2013 | By: Ben

  Stefano Zattera, Super Bureaucrat  Newest Thumbtack Press artist Stefano Zattera has an oeuvre that includes illustrations, comics, painting, graphic design, sculpture, and fiction. Nothing is out of Stefano’s reach. But aside from managing to put together a large body of work, it’s Stefano’s incisive voice that’s helped him gain respect from the pop surrealist [...]


Welcome to Thumbtack Press Stefano Zattera!

Monday, January 21st, 2013 | By: Ben

 Stefano Zattera, Lunatic Asylum In all the time Stefano Zattera has been producing paintings, drawings, sculptures, novels, comics, illustrations, and doing graphic design, he’s been nothing short of ultra productive. We’re very excited to welcome him to Thumbtack Press and to have the opportunity to offer prints of some of his huge stock of work.   [...]


Artists Talking: Newest TTPer Chris Uphues

Tuesday, November 20th, 2012 | By: Ben

Chris Uphues, Olive Juice Chris Uphues, the latest artist to work with us at Thumbtack Press, is not to be pigeonholed. His work spans mediums from street art to canvases to pillows to t-shirts to housewares and soon, as he told us below, animation and beyond. There’s something playful and cute about the way Chris’s hearts demurely [...]


Peace and Love (and Illuminati) in Work by Craig LaRotonda

Wednesday, November 14th, 2012 | By: Ben

  Craig LaRotonda, An Odyssey of Unknown Magnitude One hesitates to call anything “philosophical” in this day and age because people too readily associate that with a thickness or an irrelevance, neither of which apply to American artist Craig LaRotonda‘s work. Because his work, with its contemplative monkey subjects and calm but never static palette and [...]


Ana Galvan, Champion of Girls

Tuesday, November 13th, 2012 | By: Ben

  Ana Galvan, The Host These here are three pieces by Spanish artist Ana Galvan. They have some things in common, as you can see, like the palette and the girls and also each have something happening that defies reality. What’s grabbing the girl in The Host? Are the girls’ parachutes in Mechanicas 1 their clothes?! And what plain is [...]


TTP Repartee With Jasper Rietman Part 2

Thursday, September 20th, 2012 | By: Ben

  Jasper Rietman, Site 5 Thumbtack Press’s newest artist Jasper Rietman is an emerging illustrator from the Netherlands. Although his witty, beautifully drawn illustrations and comics are gaining a groundswell of recognition around the world, his approach still surprises people with its hilarity, inventiveness, and style. We chatted over GChat for a bit last week and talked about [...]