Lesley Smitheringale Fine Art

Featured Artist: Blaine Fontana

In January of 2003 Blaine Fontana decided to became self-employed as a fine artist and designer. Since then he hasn’t looked back. Blaine has been doing paintings, licensing, graphics and shows for Lineage Gallery, Upper Playground, Don O’Melveny Gallery, Pr1mary Space, The Lab 101, Distinction Gallery, Keep A Breast, Pacific Sunwear, Ocean Pacific, Sessions, SCION Installation Art Tour, KID ROBOT, NIKE, Ubiquity Recordings, LRG, Volcom, Metro.Pop, Scribble Theory Gallery, Liquid Force, Skeleton Art Gallery, FLIP, Stifle, FELT racing & Morey Boards. He keeps busy with commissioned paintings and is represented in numerous galleries across the United States.

” 9 Paths in the Avant Garden” Blaine has used screen printed textures and patterns in some of these

“The Descent” and “The Nest Keeper Waiting” (which inspired the sculptures below)

One of the NestKeeper sculptures

Awesome work and I love Blaine’s alternative slant on nature and the wonderful way he has integrated various screen printed textures, grunge, hard and soft edged patterns with his beautifully painted creatures. The sculptures are also gorgeous and cleverly adapted from one of his paintings.

Blaine has a very informative blog where he generously shares glimpses of his techniques,artwork and studio in stills and videos plus he has a website where some of his work is available to purchase from his online store.