Surreal portraits by Santiago Caruso. Santiago Caruso: website Symbolist and surreal illustrator, with an avant-garde concept but rooted in the nineteenth century aesthethic. Dedicated to fantasy, supernatural, horror, suspense, essay and poetry. His work stands out both for its vigor as well as for its technique. It is no overstatement to say that the work of Caruso, which is well represented in the galleries and museums of Buenos Aires, USA, Mexico and Spain, is currently one of the most pleasant revelations of Latin American plastic arts. Via: shadowness.com. Alessandro Pautasso: nosurprises full of surprises. Alessandro Pautasso, aka Kaneda, a photographer, graphic designer, and illustrator based in Turin Italy. Kaneda is specialized in vector art and lately have been experimenting a lot portraits creating a mixture of photography and vector that is really amazing. Alessandro Pautasso: nosurprises Via: abduzeedo.com. Beautiful photo-realistic art of Ekaterina Pushkarova.
Quote from the artist: “The inner life of a geisha … hidden behind thousands of different masks, charming moves and perfect clothing … but what’s inside her soul … is she crying or she’s falling in love, no one shall ever know…” You can see more works of the artist at katerin.cgsociety.org. Fantastic landscapes by Evgeny Lushpin. In his oeuvre Evgeny Lushpin follows the best traditions of representationalism of both Russian and West European pictural art. Preciosity and virtuosic skills, sense of color and form, which are very typical for old masters – Evgeny Lushpin’s paintings have it all. Favorite painters of Evgeny Lushpin are Piter Bruegel, Andrew Wyeth, Hieronymus Bosch and Edward Hopper, whose art is a creativity of imagination, fantasy and high professional skills. At the present time the favorite art object of Lushpin is landscape, which he paints in realistic manner picturing daily life of the city. Being a real master of landscape picturing, where he accomplishes perfection, revealing plastic gorgeousness of object world and creating an unrepeatable mood, he builds a real and fantastic world at the same time.
Having such fidelity and document trueness, his city landscapes may turn to be surrealistic pictures from night dreams. Evgeny Lushpin: website. Incredible pop-out painter, Alexa Meade. Alexa Meade is a 25 year old D.C. based artist who is developing an aesthetic that is playfully and skillfully combing paint, portraiture, photography and performance. The finalized work is one that is beautifully engaging, temporary and colorfully alive. The initial experience feels a touch kitchy with it’s aesthetic trickery but once past understanding the illusion the work is quite alluring.
Make sure you check out the video that illustrates the painting process and how the personality and background of the model is integrated into the creative process. All encompassing, kicking ass, taking names. Via: 24flinching.com “In my current work, I construct and then photograph ephemeral installation sets that feature an assemblage of found objects and live models, which I have covered in layers of acrylic paint. You’re walking in a gallery, along a wall of oil portraits – all of them impressive works of art.
Greno89's deviantART gallery. Amy Shackleton Paints Without a Brush | Inspired! Toronto-based artist Amy Shackleton has a very unique painting style. She works entirely without a paintbrush. Working from her own photography, she digitally alters, transforms and combines these photographs to form her initial design. Then she builds her paintings with layers of calculated brushwork and spontaneous liquid drips. Using acrylic washes, erratic paint drips, shiny enamel and hard-edge details she juxtaposes representation/abstraction, urban/rural, gloss/matte and design/spontaneity to accentuate the plurality of landscapes in the city. via AIM Artistry. Jim Denevan’s Majestic Drawings in Sand | Inspired!
[wide] [/wide] American artist Jim Denevan creates temporary land art on sand, earth and ice that are eventually erased by waves and weather. His massive scale drawings in sand are something to behold. It is said that "his work is not placed in the landscape, rather, the landscape is the means of their creation". Often aerial photography or video is needed to comprehend the final work. via Jim Denevan.
Funny Picture: Face Made Of Faces. Beauty and persona in slivered fragments by Amanda Clyne. “I begin my process by culling images from fashion magazines and art history books, intrigued by the similarities I see between contemporary fashion photography and historical portraits of society’s elite – images intended to fuel a spectacle of desire with feigned promises of intimacy and truth. Cropping the image into a portrait, I re-print the image on to a surface to which the ink does not adhere, photographing the print as the fluid image morphs and dissolves over time.
I then compose a new image from fragments of these photographs. I paint this final image as a large-scale painting, the shifting, slivered fragments offering yet denying the viewer resolution of a now elusive form.” Amanda Clyne: website Via: thisiscolossal.com. Emotionally charged portraits by Michael Shapcott.
Michael Shapcott (born June 6, 1982 in Hartford, Connecticut) is a Central Connecticut-based painter, known for his daring color palette and emotionally charged portraits. His work deals with highly detailed graphite underdrawings which he then paints with colorful washes in oil and acrylic paints. In addition to painting, Shapcott creates art videos that track the process of painting a painting and show his unique style of working. Shapcott studied illustration for two years before switching to fine arts for the remainder of his studies at Paier College of Art in Hamden, Connecticut, graduating in 2007 with a diploma in Fine Arts.
He credits his education for basic technical experience but feels that only in breaking some of the traditional methods he was taught and experimenting on his own did he develop the confidence, unique voice and style he continues to expand upon today. Michael Shapcott: website / deviantart / youtube. Flowing lines, shapes and paper faces by Damien Blottiere. Via cuded.com “After the shoot and the collage process we did with Robbie, I wanted to bring a movement to those fixed images. Working on a collage is like painting but using scissors and a cutter. I cut the lines, I build shapes on paper and faces. The video is trying to reflect the whole process, from the emotion you got while shooting a model to what I’m searching for underneath, following features. You have to hitch the skin to find sensitivity”.
Works by photographer Damien Blottière – Calvin Klein S/S2011 ‘Cut & Paste’ editorial for the December 2010 issue of Dazed & Confused. Emotions and energy in the chaos aesthetic by Viktor Sheleg. Viktor Sheleg was born in 1962 in Lomonosov, near Saint-Petersberg, Russia. His family moved to Latvia when he was three. Viktor has been drawing since early childhood and started painting at the age of twelve. Self-taught, his creativity is based on his personal worldview, which earned him a solid reputation of an independent artist. Sheleg developed his style and aesthetic preference in a country isolated from the rest of the world and known for its climate of conformity. Viktor Sheleg: website This post is sponsored by PsPrint. The memories collection, watercolor paintings by Charles L. Peterson. Memories… The older we get, the more memories we have. Artist Charles Peterson has devoted a series of paintings to the memories – “The Memories Collection”.
While creatine these paintnings he appealed primarily to his own memories, his paintings are close and understandable to all. They allow the viewer back to a carefree happy childhood and remember the taste of mom’s pie, swimming a race in the pond, gentle voice grandmother … For this effect, the artist uses a combination of bright and clear background with faded human figures, more like ghosts. People who might already be dead, but who will always live in our memories and hearts. Series “The Memories Collection” has 60 paintings. Reproductions of paintings-memories were so popular in society, that the American edition of US Art Magazine included the name of Charles in the top ten representatives of the national printing industry. Via beautifullife.info Charles L. Human and floral forms, illustration by Carne Griffiths.
Carne Griffiths’ artwork is born from a love of drawing and the journey of creating an image on the page. Working primarily with calligraphy ink, graphite and liquids, such as tea brandy, vodka and whisky he draws and then manipulates the drawn line. After graduating from Maidstone college of art Carne served an apprenticeship and worked as a gold wire embroidery designer for 12 years, hence floral pattern, repetition and flow play a large part in his work.
Carne’s images explore both human and floral forms, figuratively and in an abstract sense. He is fascinated by the flow of line and the ‘invisible lines’ that connect us to the natural world. These may be considered lines of energy or spiritual connections between ourselves and our surroundings and his work is often an emotional response to images and situations encountered in daily life. These daily images are recorded in a dream like sense onto the page where physical boundaries are no longer important. Incredibly compelling paintings by Yury Darashkevich. “My works are about visual perception and the ways in which the face or body or sometimes even a simple cup responds to the color, line, texture or pattern. The “Thing” or “Subject” by itself, surrounded by “Great Nothing”, is my excitement. I try to establish a very private dialog between the viewer and the subject matter of my painting.
It is a simple and sincere conversation without any unnecessary details.” Yury Darashkevich: website / flickr. Markers and acrylic paint by Minjae Lee. Minjae Lee is a 20 year old illustrator and painter from Korea. His Favorite mediums are markers and acrylic paint. Minjae Lee: website Via: vectroave.com. Portrait paintings by Danny O’Connor (aka DOC) The incredible shapes and colours of alcoholic drinks. A 20-year-old model photographed as if she were 10, 20, 30, 40, 50, and 60 years old. Amazing illustrations by Juli Jah. Illustration by Alice X. Zhang. Stunning and meticulous compositions by Alexej Ravski. Chic realistic paintings by exceptionally talented figurative artist Rob Hefferan. Ants, a new macro story by Vadim Trunov. Original illustrations from the young french designer Florian Nicolle. Impressive cityscapes by Christopher St. Leger. Figurative realism and abstract expressionism: paintings by Fidel Garcia. The skull illusion by Tom French. João MT.
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