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 […]
On March 30th 1995, Brian Lewis Saunders decided to draw a self-portrait every day. He now has thousands of portraits, all collected in hard cover notebooks. Some of these portraits were created while under the influence of a variety of drugs. The artist sought out different drugs with the intention of drawing a portrait of […]
A collection of inspirational picture quotes and images to motivate you in September 2012.
This music video shows Andrea Dorfman speed painting illustrations of the lyrics of Tanya Davis’s song “Art”. The term “speed painting” refers to an art work that has been created in real time and filmed. The video is then sped up with digital video editing software. This creates a short film that contains hours of […]
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 […]
British artist Keira Rathbone has discovered a new way to create art, with an old method of printing words; typewriting. Armed with nothing but a sheet of paper and a typewriter, Rathbone creates images of scenery and famous places. In this video, she “draws” a picture of the Esztergomi Bazilika (Cathedral) from the banks of the […]
Sandro del Prete was born in 1937 in Switzerland. After finishing school, Prete dedicated himself to painting and spent time at the Florence Academy of Art in Italy, learning the painting techniques of the masters. After returning to Switezerland, the painter began to study and create religious and symbolic paintings. His interest in symbols and […]
Chris Newman is an American painter who creates digital paintings in software art programs like Adobe Photoshop and Corel Painter. Even though his paintings are created on a computer, the finished art works have a watercolor painting effect. Watercolor effects suit Newman’s paintings perfectly, allowing the artist to fade elements of the scene to create a sense […]
Jacek Yerka was born in Poland in 1952. He studied fine art and graphic designs before becoming a full-time artist. Yerka’s training in art techniques is apparent in the neat layout of his surrealist paintings and the crisp way in which each painting is finished. The style that Yerka uses to create his paintings is […]
Andy Jones believes that creativity is the foundation of consciousness and that art is the agent of social change. He draws inspiration from the art works of artists who are centuries dead, and combines this inspiration with digital art techniques to create spiritual, often psychedelic and surreal Photoshop paintings. Android Jones’ website states that “Android’s […]