“Hopare” is Alexandre Monteiro, a graffiti artist and painter from France. Hopare’s work is extraordinary; he creates emotive movement in his art works by including abstract shapes and fluid lines to create a sense that color is exploding out from the painting or moving from one point to another within the design. His use of line […]
Graffiti artists Galo (aka MakeOne) and Ignoto collaborate, turning a blank wall somewhere in Brazil into a street art canvas. The two artists combine their different styles in this graffiti piece to create an artwork that shows the contrast between the two artists’ imaginations and styles. While Galo tends to use bold outlines filled with […]
Little is known about Mexican painter, illustrator and graffiti artist Dhear One, though this interview with Veemente reveals a little about his background. Dhear One grew up around graffiti artists who influenced his interest in art and taught him how to create graffiti murals. He merged his skills and talents with a passion for biology, […]
Many painters from around the world have at some point explored the idea of becoming a tattoo artist. The appeal of working on a living canvas and knowing that their art work will be moving about through the world has led many fine art masters to become tattoo artists. Jesse Smith Jesse Smith is […]
Nychos is an Austrian artist, illustrator and street artist who was born and raised in a little Austrian village near Graz by a family of hunters. Introduced to hunting at a young age, Nychos saw death first hand and became fascinated with the processes of skinning and butchering animals. Anatomy and the delicate line between […]
Daniel Montero Galan was born in Madrid, Spain in 1981 and still lives there. He says that he struggled to verbally express himself as a child so he turned to communicating with the world through art. Galan’s style is similar to that of Japanese artist Takeo Takei, but has a modern, humorous twist to it. […]
FBI trained forensic artist Gil Zamora embarks on an interesting project; to draw how women see themselves vs how other people see them. The artist didn’t see his subjects before drawing them. Each drawing is based purely on the women’s descriptions of themselves and how other people described them. In each case, the women described […]
Japanese artist Yosuke Ueno’s painting are an interesting blend of fantasy, surrealistic styling and cartoon elements. Although his characters are all his own original designs, their cartoon styling has been around for nearly a century. His pop surrealism paintings have an innocent appeal about them, even when darker symbolism appears in the art work in […]
Bonsoir Paris is an art duo who experiment with a variety of art mediums. Turning their hands and creative talents to wood sculptures, the artistic pair created Duramen, a series of wood sculptures that depicts melting picture frames. Each piece is a tactile surrealistic delight. In reality, wood doesn’t melt, it simply burns and turns to […]
Peter de Sève is an American illustrator and character designer who has created many famous characters for popular animated films. His character designs have been featured in films like A Bug’s Life, Finding Nemo, Robots and the Ice Age trilogy. (The beloved Scrat character from Ice Age is one of de Sève’s most famous characters.) Although the majority […]