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Russian Sculptor Gives Life to Steampunk Aliens
Andrey Drozdov is an artist from Russia who creates alienish character sculptures. Each of his sculptures is packed with personality and visual appeal. There is no lack of texture, form or character in his pieces. This makes his artistic sculptures appealing to art collectors from a wide age group and from many different backgrounds. Some […]
Watch How a Handful of Sand can Become a Huge, Beautiful Mandala
New Yorker Joe Mangrum has an unusual hobby: he likes to head out to a public space with bags of sand and create mandala designs where every passer-by can watch him at work. He says he creates his colorful sand mandalas not only to create joy for kids, but to inspire and motivate adults to […]
Trip Out on Art with Estela Cuadro’s Hallucinogenic Paintings
Estela Cuadro’s personal art style is unique. She incorporates elements of spirituality, tribalism and psychedelia into each of her paintings to create scenes that are abstract yet contain hints of reality. Each painting is filled with a sense of movement and animation. It’s as though the artist was in the midst of a wild imagining, […]
Life is a Beach, and so is Love, in Jay Alder’s Figurative Paintings
The figurative art movement is a form of abstract art that retains ties to the real world, depicting real scenes and people in an abstract, yet recognisable manner. Jay Alders’ figurative paintings feature beach and coastal landscapes with human figures engaging in the beach life. Stories of romance, adrenalin and peaceful moments unfold in Alders’ art, […]
Incredible Artist Creates a Japanese Dragon with a Handful of Brushstrokes
Japanese painter Kousyuuya employs a variety of brilliant brushwork techniques to create a painting of a Japanese dragon. Even though the majority of the dragon is made with only one color, Kousyuuya’s brushwork techniques create depth and texture for the character. Kousyuuya employs his paint brushes in such a way that he can create contrasting shades with one […]
Cities become Story Books with Mart Aire’s Illustrative Street Art
Argentinian street artist Mart Aire uses a fun-loving illustrative style to create his street art murals. People on bicycles float through dreamy landscapes surrounded by fish, musical instruments and cheerful suns. Aire’s art style is abstract and resembles children’s book illustrations. The feelings that his paintings portray are cheerful ones that inspire a sense of […]
The Funny but Functional Fantasy World of Potter Mitchell Grafton
Panama City artist Mitchell Grafton throws convention down the drain when he creates his clay sculptures. Unlike many pottery artists, who focus either on function or form, Grafton combines the two to create highly imaginative yet functional art works. His specialises in what he calls “face jugs”; artistic and often humorous jugs that can either […]
The Art of Madness: Britain’s Most Dangerous Inmate Paints his Fighting Spirit
Born in 1952, Michael Peterson, aka Charles Bronson, followed a life path of violence and rebellion, leaving in his wake a stream of bruised and abused prison staff, psychiatric workers and fist fighters. Bronson’s aim in life has been to become famous, and he’s used his aggressive personality to become both notorious and infamous. From taking […]
Impossibility meets Reality in Arianna Piazza’s Surreal Paintings
Arianna Piazza is an Italian artist who not only mixes media, she also creates a mix of subject matter and art styles in her paintings. Working in paint and pencil and with either paper or canvas, Piazza’s imagination gives life to a variety of obscure, bizarre and appealing creatures and characters. Piazza’s art style is […]
Watch Dutch Artist Marcel Witte take a Fish for a Walk
Marcel Witte is a photorealistic painter from the Netherlands who paints surrealist and photorealistic images of animals. Some of his paintings are simply beautiful portraits, but others have a single human element added to the scene that personifies the animals and gives them character. Witte has this to say about his paintings; “In my artwork, […]