I came across the artist Eric Joyner years ago and i still love his work. Joyner is an artist, freelance illustrator and instructor who creates old school oil paintings of robots. Sometimes engaging in distruction, sometimes exploring, sometimes performing normal human tasks and sometimes playing ring toss with donuts and sky scrapers.
In the years following World War II the major export from Japan wasn’t electronic equipment, but toys, specifically tin toys. Crafted in the shapes of submarines, planes, trains, cars, and horses, one of the most popular motifs were toy robots. Constructed in virtually every shape imaginable from the 1940s throughout the 1960s, they ranged in appearance from horror to science fiction characters. Today, these toys are not only fondly remembered by collectors but are being re-created for a whole new generation! Read More
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