Juli Adams

Juli Adams Logo Juli Adams’ art is quirky surrealism at its best. Her topics range from children with huge monsters as pets to big-eyed portraits of girls with antlers to flying penguins. Her work has a modern Gothic feel with rich details and beautiful, dark colors. Sometime her work is a bit moody if not borderline creepy but it is always fun.

Juli Adams ArtBeautiful, dreamy and strange, Escape show penguins gliding from a platform on a huge floating fish in the sky. You have to wonder how Juli Adams come up with her visions. Perfectly executed it is a wonderful piece of art to explore.

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Fuzzy Ink

Fuzzy Ink logo A site dedicated to paying homage facial hair of all sort Fuzzy Ink is a furry monster’s delight. T-Shirt, prints and accessories of all sort with images of mustache wearing humans.

 

Fuzzy Ink T-Shirt A bit more campy than other Fuzzy Ink’s styles our favorite is Saddle Up shown left. It sticks to their only mustache theme with a bearded old man riding a cute, but tough looking squirrel. Although we appreciate artist who stick to their theme, it would be interesting to see a work or two without facial hair.

Monster Recommended for mustache-inspired t-shirts
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Modenski

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Modenski has simple, European inspired designs with a quirky sense of humor. Bold graphics, minimal use of color the images are like hieroglyphics delivering fun messages in a utilitarian way. They are like Bauhaus but with a sense of humor.

 

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Modenski’s Monster calenders shows off their skill. With their simple but expressive drawings of monsters, it is the perfect blend of gruesome and cute to help you start off the day with a smile.

 

Monster Recommended for innovative paper goods

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Wool Buddy

Wool Buddy Wool Zebra Toy Wool Buddy’s toys are classic in design. The artist pays attention to detail making sure each stripe is just right on the zebras and the octopus’ spots show off its form. Wool Buddy design are original and new but the imagery harks back to traditional children’s books and have a comforting, familiar feel to them.

 
 
 
 

Wool Buddy woorl owl Needle felt green eye owl is looking for a home. Wool Buddy’s attention to detail can be seen here. Every spot is, curve and outline makes for a well-formed and very cute owl.

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Neon Monster

Neon Monster Logo A great San Francisco comic book store between Noe Valley and the Castro. Small but selective merchandise for the inner Monster in all of us. If you are not into comics this is a good place to get started. Plus us monsters can hang out by the big fake monster outside and nobody notices.

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Johnny Botts

Johnny Botts Art Although monsters and robots have had their troubles in the past us monsters at Hip Monsters love Johnny Botts’ art. He makes portraits of robots that are more sentimental and lovable than most portraits of children. The robots have a genuine innocence about them that is enduring.

Johnny Botts Art Sneaking Cookies brings to life a robot child with a simple, retro-style drawing of an android stealing cookies while making sure no one is looking. The backgrounds are key to Johnny Botts’ art.  In this pieces the clean lines of of kitchen and cookie jar beautifully drawn, make the robot pop out of the piece.

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Bumper Boy

Bumper Boy Logo A carefree and adventurous little creature, Bumper Boy takes you along as he explores the world. The illustrations have a European feel reminding me of works of Babar and Moomin. But Bumper Boy’s characters have their own which pulls you into their world.

Bumper Boy Art A tower of cute characters having fun waits you in Bumper Boy’s “Stacked”. Here you can see the range of Bumper Boy characters which enjoyable for both adults and children. Bumper Boy uses a moot color pallet to create an overall calming feel to the work. Each one look beacons to be hugged- especially the feisty looking one.

Monster Recommended for Artsy Prints
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Katedurkin

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Katedurkin’s art has humor, style and well executed skill. A blend of European styles and American folk art she pulls from rich cross cultural of New York. Her work can be appreciated as decor for a children’s room or in a executives office, meaning depends on how far you care to look.

 

Katedurkin Art We are all Here has nine enjoyable characters to explore. This format, widely used nowadays, is well executed here. It is not just a collection of random images but is part of a larger story. Mute coloring and blank expressions aside the piece is cheerful and fun.

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Catia Chien

Catia Chien Logo Artwork for the pensive Monster, Catia Chien s work draws a Monster in. Saturated colors embrace her figures who reside in a dream world all her own. Her books are among our favorite short graphic novels with beautiful art and memorable stories.

Catia Chien Art Dark, organic and ,moody Catia Chien s Valentine captures the feelings of loneliness we have had at one time or another. Emotions always run deep in her work and this can be seen here.

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