Designer Alexandra Khitrova Discovers a New Career through Her Stunning Fantasy Concept Art. Early last year motion graphics artist and Alexandra Khitrova decided to utilize some of the digital tools she had acquired in her profession to explore concept illustration.
While she did study art in school, this was an entirely new creative realm, a pet project to explore realms of science fiction and fantasy where flying dragons mingled with terrifying storms and otherworldly beings were brought to life on the screen. The reaction online and off was swift, and Khitrova soon found herself working on increasingly complex drawings as she suddenly began to get commissions. Photography of Photography by Vix Muniz. New York based Brazilian artist Vix Muniz creates photographs using many other photos.
We can call his work as photo patchwork which results in a very detailed collage of hundreds of other photos. He explains this as “a vantage point that would make the picture identical to the ones in my head before I’d made the works” so he simply reflects his imagination via photography. Now take your magnifiers to enjoy the pieces that we selected from his portfolio. Calamityware: Disastrous Scenarios on Traditional Blue Porcelain Dinner Plates. For centuries artisans have been crafting white porcelain dishes and decorating them with intricate cobalt blue patterns, from floral designs to swirling landscapes.
Enter graphic designer Don Moyer who is turning the tradition on its head with his wildly successful line of Calamityware dinner plates. Moyer expertly mimics several Eastern motifs in his plates with one major addition: flying monkeys, a UFO assault, and giant gurgling sea monsters. Two plates have already been created and are available in his shop, while a third is currently doing quite well over on Kickstarter. He says next up is a bonafide pirate invasion plate which you can keep an eye out for (ba dum!) Later this year. Shark vs. Humpback Whale. Fiona Tang is a Canadian artist and art student at Emily Carr University of Art + Design in Vancouver.
Her work literally jumps out of the page as she sketches a number of animals, including an eye-catching humpback whale fighting off a great white shark, onto huge sheets of paper. Her drawing style is beautifully messy and free flowing. All images © Fiona Tang Via Juxtapoz. Internal Landscapes: Sweeping Abstract Oceans by Samantha Keely Smith. Artist Samantha Keely Smith paints abstract oceanic landscapes that are at once menancing and serene, a clash of light and color that she refers to as “internal landscapes.”
Using oil paint, enamel, and shellac, Smith uses an additive and subtractive process by partially destroying her progress several times before completion. This cyclical process, much like the timeless crash of ocean tides against the shore, adds an additional level of texture to her work. She shares in a 2013 interview with NeverLazy Magazine: Wedding dress made from divorce papers. Colour in the Digital Collage. The mixed media collages of Bolin Zhang get the balance exactly right between nostalgia and modernity, and between colour and black and white.
The imagery may be defined by an old fashioned aesthetic but the colours that Zhang has chosen bring us right up to the contemporary age. It is a lovely combination. Enjoy! All images © Bolin Zhang Via Flickr. A Peek into Britschgi’s Fantasy Land. Kinga Britschgi is a Hungarian digital artist based in the US.
Her dreamscapes are populated with stunning imagery including a key hole cutout of a starry sky, and hair transformed into the branches of a summer tree. All images © Kinga Britschgi Via Behance. Artist Breathes New Life Into Old Disney Scenes By Painting Over Them. Most people bristle at the prospect of seeing updates or remakes of their favorite childhood books, shows or movies.
Digital artist and Illustrator Tyson Murphy, however, has recreated a few scenes from a couple of classic Disney movies that will, despite their new look, reignite your love for the classics. To create the two remakes (from 101 Dalmations and The Sword In The Stone), Murphy simply captured still images from the two movies and digitally painted over them in Photoshop, applying his charmingly colorful style.
The resulting illustrations are both true to the classics and true to Murphy’s creative vision. Amazing Oil Paintings of Ominous Cityscapes. Inspired by his trips to Hong Kong, Thailand, and China, artist Brian Mashburn is the name behind these gloomy dark skyscapes.
To him painting is “the soul of a hopeless romantic and the dark humor of a cynic,” Steven Matijcio, Curator of Contemporary Art SECCA, defines Brian Mashburn’s artwork as consequent states of excess, alienation, degradation, and serenity bleed together in his meticulous oil paintings of gothic beauty. Between grandeur and the grotesque, he presents post-apocalyptic visions of the modern world where nature, culture, and industry engage in an ambivalent endgame. See his bewildering dark cityscapes on canvas here.
The Wild Man. Canadian artist Zachari Logan is portrayed as the model in his artwork, however, he doesn’t intend to highlight himself but rather explore the relationship of human and nature.
His blue pencil drawings are strange yet beautiful with flora and fauna weaving in and out of his head and body, like a Giuseppe Arcimboldo painting (e.g. “The Winter,” 1563). Vibrant Portrait Art. LA based painter Joseph Lee has taken a variety of celebrity and ordinary faces as the subject for a series of abstract explorations in paint and portraiture. Amanda Elizabeth Joseph. This summer we are proud to announce the first Empty Kingdom Art Show at 111 Minna. Within the show will be a host of fantastic artists, one of whom is Alicia Martin Lopez. Alicia works with both digital painting and oil, which she describes rather well.
Her work is mysterious and other worldly, she herself is intelligent and well spoken. Check out her art and interview! Please introduce yourself. The most valuable lesson I learned is that there is nothing better than a deadline and the fear of showing your work in public to force you to get it done! Epic Naval Battles. Digital artist Rado Javor can take up to 3 months to perfect an 18th century remake of the Battle of Quiberon Bay shown above, the Battle of Vigo Bay, and more. His work reminisces traditional paintings from an era that artists would take a long time to finalize an oil masterpiece, but Javor prefers today’s technological tools and software such as Intuos and Photoshop to create striking visuals for computer games like Empire: Total War, and Rome II. VIAJERO. Artist Irons And Folds Tulle Fabric To Create Beautiful Portraits. In the hands of British artist Benjamin Shine, a piece of tulle isn’t just for making fancy dresses and curtains – it becomes a great material for creating amazing realistic “paintings.”
Using an iron, Shine sculpts, presses and pleats the huge single piece of tulle, whose transparent qualities give the portrait more texture and depth. By layering in this way, the artist obtains different tones and shadows that enable him to realistically portray iconic stars like Elizabeth Taylor, elegant abstract faces and other things, such as a pair of elderly hands. Paintings by Federico Infante. Artist Turns Her Small Studio Room Into Surreal Dreamscapes Without Using Photoshop. Young Korean artist Jee Young Lee recently presented her beautiful, surrealistic and Photoshop-free photography exhibition named “Stage of Mind”.
The magic happens in the artist’s small 3,6 x 4,1 x 2,4-meter studio in Seoul. The artist builds these highly dramatic, psychedelic and visually intense scenes herself, ensuring that every teeny tiny detail is hauntingly perfect and leaves the viewer in awe. Jee Young Lee works with such precision that the creation of a set often takes weeks or even months of work. As soon as the otherworldly sets are done, the artist incorporates herself in them in various different ways and takes these stunning self-portraits. [Read more...] According to the artist herself, all of the photography sets and her specific roles in them tell a particular story about her personal life experiences or resurrect traditional Korean fables or other cultural heritage from around the world. Awesome Portraits Made From Nails on Canvas. David Foster, based in Warrington, Cheshire, UK is another extraordinary artist who creates portraits and real-like illustrations by stippling with nails on a canvas.
Hyper-surrealistic rebirth installation by Sun Yuan and Peng Yu. Laura Plageman. Santa Claus in classic masterpieces. Stage of Mind by Jee Young Lee. Jee Young Lee is a Korean artist and the creator of these stunning surrealistic settings. Yes, you haven’t read wrong, the backgrounds of these shoots are taken in the artist’s small 3,6 x 4,1 x 2,4-meter studio in Seoul. Jee Young Lee builds these very detailed, magic-like stages and photographs herself in various themes all of which tell the viewers about her personal life. Ornate Mixed Media Assemblages by Kris Kuksi. Unveiled Obscurity, 2013. Mixed media assemblage. 32″ x 46″ x 12″. A Herd of 99 Lifelike Animals Drink From a Pool at QAGOMA. Heritage, 2013. 99 life-sized replicas of animals, water, sand, drip mechanism. Dimensions variable. Photograph: Natasha Harth, Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art.
Steampunkesque Cityscapes by Pete Amachree. Pete Amachree is a British digital painter who illustrated these dark cityscapes. The atmosphere created in his work shows how much he is influenced by the steampunk movement. The neon colours, lights and the fictious places are typical reflections of this kind of genre. Pete Amachree says he is inspired by the Flatiron building in New York while painting the first picture, “Downtown”. A Dragon Teapot by Johnson Tsang. A Dragon Teapot by Johnson Tsang. Ai Weiwei's Forever Bicycles sculpture in Toronto. 155 Years Before the First Animated Gif, Joseph Plateau Set Images in Motion with the Phenakistoscope. Fragments of Time installation reverses the cycle of life for trees. Art by Jaime Molina.
Newspaper Pages Cut Like Embroidered Lace by Myriam Dion. Armed with a scalpel and latest edition of Le Devoir or the International Harold Tribune, Canadian artist Myriam Dion cuts rich textural patterns remeniscent of emroidered lacework right into the pages newspapers. Major design elements and photographs from the pages are often left intact or otherwise incorporated into her paper cuts, creating a strange element of harmony, as if the paper was always intended to look like this.
A Huge Submarine Bursts through the Streets of Milan. As part of an absurdly clever advertising campaign orchestrated by ad agency M&C Saatchi Milano for insurance firms Europ Assistance IT and Genertel, a giant submarine was installed near the city center as if it had suddenly burst through the street. Deadpan Comedy: Surreal Drawing of a Dystopian Future by Samuel Gomez. Bloom: 28,000 Potted Flowers Installed at the Massachusetts Mental Health Center.
One of the tiny offices on the third floor, with orange tulips at mid-day. In 2003, a building housing the Massachusetts Mental Health Center (MMHC) was slated for demolition to make way for updated facilities. Urban Species: Kinetic Lifeforms Created by U-Ram Choe. Disarm: A Mechanized Orchestra of Instruments Built from Decommissioned Weapons. Drawings Made with Fingerprint Patterns by Nicolas Jolly. Www.thisiscolossal.com/2013/09/the-fallen-9000/ Steampunk Watch Part Sculptures by Sue Beatrice. Floating Garden: A New Poured Salt Installation by Motoi Yamamoto at Mint Museum Uptown. Art by Ikeda Manabu. Sleepwalkers by Lorella Paleni. Massive floating dome made from 450 broken umbrellas. The Pixel Painter: A 97-Year-Old Man Who Draws Using Microsoft Paint from Windows 95. Cityscapes paintings. New tape works by Aakash Nihalani. Random Book Paintings by Ekaterina Panikanova. The Visual Patterns of Audio Frequencies Seen through Vibrating Sand.
Stunning Paintings of Movie Scenes. Handimals by Guido Daniele. Silhouettes that Open Visual Portals by Nacho Ormaechea. Vulnerable chalk pastel portraits by Brett Williams. These hyper-realistic drawings mess with your mind. Sky art by Thomas Lamadieu. Poetic charcoal drawings of clouds by Hilary Brace. Amazing Landscape Paintings By Tomas Sanchez. Troilo54. Thread Installation by Pae White. Tiny paintings of Istanbul by Hasan Kale. Magnificent Installations Throughout Norway's Countryside. Beautiful Japanese-inspired surrealist paintings. Yellow helmets as a protest installation. Grungy urban landscape paintings by Valerio D’Ospina. 85,794 Rubik's Cube Mural.
Laser-Cut Paper Art by Eric Standley. A Contemporary Interpretation of Carpets. Disturbing pictures of couples dissolving into one another. Vladimir Velickovic. Step into these paintings by Anna Kristensen, literally. Scrapped Aircraft As Canvas For Art. Feather Art by Chris Maynard. 3D paintings by Shintaro Ohata. 10 Superb Oil Paintings by Christiane Vleugels. For This Gallery Opening, Bring Your Scuba Gear. Trampled Snow Art by Simon Beck. Victor Wang's Paintings. Drawings Made With One Continuous Line. Classic Paintings Recreated Using an Iron. Incredible Living Painting With Realistic Body Paint.
Maquettes. Cassette tape art by Benoit Jammes. Amazing Anamorphic Illusions [VIDEO] Artist Creates Real Clouds Inside. Messy masterpieces by Florian Nicolle. Paintings by Innes McDougall. Who Would Have Thought Smoke Bombs Could Be This Beautiful. Repurposed Circuit Boards Create Fantastic Fossil Sculptures. City Built Using 100,000 Staples. Litterbugs. Su Blackwell's Fairy Tale Book Sculptures. Paper cut silhouettes.
Concrete "Bodies" Form Eerie Underwater Sculptural Installation. Anatomical Cross-Sections Made With Tissue Paper. Silent halls of european palaces. 3D wire sculptures by David Moreno. Judith Ann Braun's Fingers Are Magical. Hand paintings by Ray Massey. Danteworlds.