Superfan

I (John) have a new favorite artist, Eric Beal. Up there is his poster for the 2008 Alaska Folk Festival. He is a wood block carver and carved that thing and then painted it in in layers. It rules. He and his wife live subsistance-style on the side of a mountain in Alaska. Here is an article about him: http://juneauempire.com/stories/040804/thi_ffest.shtml

Here is a close up of part of that painting...