Solongo Monkhooroi is a female artist who grew up between beautiful Mongolian mountains, wide steppes and the Gobi desert. The landscapes that she encountered as a child have influenced her art techniques as an adult; many of her paintings have tall mountain peaks and rushing rivers. Stylizing her paintings to reflect the artistic style of […]
The play “War Horse” is a theatrical production that combines human actors, stage effects and life-size animal puppets. The story is based on the popular 1982 book “War Horse”, written by Michael Morpurgo. The story follows an English farm horse called Joey, who is sold to the cavalry in World War I. His human companion, Albert […]
Sandara is an artist from Singapore who creates fan art of fantasy books and video games. Working in digital art software such as Adobe Photoshop and Corel Painter, Sandara creates highly detailed, complete scenes of fantasy warriors, dragons and other characters. Her computer paintings are full of moody poses and dramatic action, creating not just […]
Lutamesta’s psychedelic drawings are reminiscent of Loius Wain’s art works. (Take a look at his art in The Schizophrenic Psychedelic Art of Louis Wain) Both Lutamesta and Louis Wain use cats as their main subjects, depicting the cats’ fur, whiskers and facial features with stylized, psychedelic patterns. Both artists focus on the cats’ faces, enlarging […]
Scrat is one of the characters from the Ice Age series of films from Blue Sky Studios and 20th Century Fox. The Scrat character is a scrawny squirrel with bulging eyes and a long nose. His adventures were first created as a sub-plot to the Ice Age films, providing an amusing sideline for the story. Scrat’s comedies […]
Mikaël Aguirre was born in France in 1981. Video games have had such an effect on Aguirre’s life that they have even influenced his art. Mikaël creates his video game paintings in digital imaging software like Adobe Photoshop and Corel Painter. These programs allow the artist to work at his own pace – there are no […]
Mike Puncekar has an unusual hobby – he takes cheerful, cute characters from video games like Super Mario and from children’s TV series like Pokemon and transforms them to create humorously horrific parodies of the original characters. Puncekar isn’t just a hobbyist artist. He also takes commissions and has created art works for books, comics […]
Julie Dillon combines classic elements of fantasy such as dragons and other fairy tales creatures with the modern art medium of Photoshop. Dillon’s colorful paintings burst with life and imagination and each painting is filled with a vivid portrayal of the artist’s joy in creating these scenes. Many of the creatures and characters that are […]
Keith Thompson’s art is a combination of surrealism, fantasy and Art Nouveau styles. Although the artist doesn’t like the term “fantasy art”, his work seems to fall under or at least perilously close to this definition. The influence of Japanese art and illustration is what gives Keith Thompson’s illustrations their Art Nouveau effect, with hints […]
Anton Semenov is a digital horror artist from Russia. His dark Photoshop paintings thrill and disgust, eliciting an amalgam of opposing responses from the viewer. Seemingly born from a nightmarish imagination, Semenov’s Photoshop freaks dominate this artist’s paintings, challenging the viewer to continue looking upon their ghastly forms. There is a sense of silence in […]