Julie Heffernan from Julie Heffernan’s Constructions of Self Julie Heffernan creates sensuous figurative painting, like co-Yale MFAS, John Currin and Linda Yuskavage, but her luminous oils are patently unique among them and most working artists today. A Victorian impetus to conjoin, edging toward pastiche, creates artfully staged Surrealist environments. They avoid the mawkish or macabre by virtue of an evocative 17th century Baroque styling and the dignity with which she handles her primary subject, herself. Julie Heffernan at P.P.O.W Gallery Julie Heffernan at Catherine Clark Gallery Thanks to Modern Art Obsession for finding this artist!
Hand Drawn Rotoscoping Gifs and Other Animation Experiments by Matthias Brown I recently stumbled onto the Tumblr of animator Matthias Brown who shares his numerous experiments with rotoscoping and other animation techniques in quick looped gifs. In case you’re unfamiliar, rotoscoping is method where animators trace real footage frame by frame to create live-action animations with a hand drawn feel, a technique invented in 1915 by Max Fleischer who used it in his series Out of the Inkwell. While the technique is a century old it’s oddly refreshing to see it appear in today’s barrage of animated gifs, gritty imperfections and all. You can see much more of Brown’s work over on his aptly titled site TraceLoops, and he talks a bit more about his process here.
15 astounding examples of photorealism | Illustration These illustrators, painters and artists have an unfathomable talent. Creating photo realistic portraits and landscapes using only a pen, pencil or brush, the attention to detail and photo realism is absolutely awe-inspiring. Take a look at our picks of the best of the bunch. 01. Based in Cheshire, Rob Hefferan is an exceptionally talented figurative artist. 02. Juan Francisco Casas Ruiz is a Spaniard visual artist. 03. Halim Ghodbane's attention to detail is breath-taking. 04. Michael's work has been the subject of five solo shows in London. 05. Jeremy Geddes creates other wordly and abstract photorealistic paintings. 06. Focusing on hands, water and sculptures, Rodriguez's attention to detail is astonishing. Creating each picture using colour pencils, other work by Rodriguez mimics oil paintings. 07. Italian-born Roberto Bernardi is one of the most well known photorealist artists, with his art displayed around the world. 08. 09. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. Like this?
Des peintures de paysages marins au couteau Le peintre polonais Justyna Kopania crée ces paysages marins habités par des bateaux qui semble détaillés en quelques coups de couteau à peinture qui forment des aplats. Page D'accueil Toute utitlisation, reproduction non autorisée et plagiat, se mérite un doigt d'honneur de ma part. Baptiste Jeremy Geddes Raphael François | Étendard vol.1 Par le passé les territoires étaient représentés par des armoiries (blason, écu…), toujours en vigueur aujourd’hui, mais ne répondant plus aux besoins en matière d’utilisation et communication. Souvent riches en détails, leur lisibilité déjà compliquée dépend souvent de contrastes colorés pouvant poser problème lors d’utilisation en noir et blanc ou lors de mauvaise impression. Ils sont donc peu adaptés à une utilisation logotype au sens contemporain où on l’entend. Cependant ils ont une légitimité de représentation historique du territoire, Étendard est le fruit d’un long travail de synthétisation et de stylisation de ces symboles. Puisque nous ne pouvons pas techniquement, nous permettre une telle richesse de détails en logotype, projetons l’ombre de ces symboles pour en obtenir une synthèse techniquement utilisable en logotype, qui pourra faire facilement le lien avec les symboles historiques complets.
Terrible Yellow Eyes The Daily Sketches of Guy Denning Every single day since November 2010, without fail, Bristol-based artist Guy Denning (previously) posts a daily sketch to his Drawing a Day blog (occasionally mirrored on his Facebook page). It’s well worth following. For more of his work head over to Signal Gallery where he had a solo show in October, and you can see much more on his website. David M. Bowers|Welcome to dmbowers.com wallpaper The wallpaper of this week is a photo I took in Hong Kong of one of the Space Invaders artwork. The exhibition was titled WIPE OUT and there were several amazing pieces from this legendary French artist. Invader is internationally known for his pixelated mosaic “space invaders” which he has placed in over 60 cities around the world for almost 20 years. In January 2014, the artist launched the third wave of his “invasion” in Hong Kong 13 years after he first hit the city.The works showed a significant evolution, displaying characters from local culture and classic cartoons, but still in the artist’s immediately recognisable pixel aesthetic. I define myself as an ULA, an unidentified living artist. I chose Invader as my pseudonym and I always appear behind a mask.