Stella Im Hultberg works in mixed media; combining ink, watercolor and acrylic to create masterful works of art. Her paintings often depict a peaceful, dreamy woman surrounded by flowers, as though every thought and feeling of the girl is made of the soft petals of these flowers. Hultberg’s use of pale skin tones offset by […]
American illustrator and fine artist Kelly McKernan paints women in imaginative worlds other than our own. Each of her scenes includes, as she says on her website; a woman and a world. These women either interact with the world around them or they seem to look off-page, over the viewer’s shoulder, as if there is […]
In this speed painting video, Swedish artist Maria Björnbom Öberg shows us her exceptional skill with drawing. The stationery she’s using are copic markers, Holbein colour pencils and Faber Castell Polychromos to add color to the design, and a white gel pen to add sparkles and highlights. This incredible hand drawn illustration features a beautiful […]
Hailing from the age celebrated by steampunk artists, Rex Whistler’s optical illusion portraits give a glimpse into the mind of this exceptionally talented artist. Though he didn’t live long (1905-1944), whistler created an enormous amount of drawings, paintings and other creative projects such as set designs for school plays and illustrations for books. Rex Whistler’s […]
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 […]
“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 […]
Two grandmothers experiment with modern technology, giggling at the transformational powers of Photo Booth, a piece of software that mimics the warping effect of the convex and concave mirrors that were once popular in amusement parks. These quirky old birds prove that you’re never too old to be silly and have a little fun.
Ray Caesar was born in London, England in 1958. He describes his childhood art as “atypical and aberrant” as it was unlike the bright pop art of the 60s and 70s. Drawing inspiration from Classical, Baroque and Romantic era paintings, Caesar creates fantasy scenes that include innocent young girls, sensual young women or ageless divas. […]
David Walker is a London-based artist who creates explosively colorful portraits of people he’s never met. Each of his art works features a face that the artist found in a book, magazine or photograph. Walker says that the anonymity of his subjects allows the viewer to create their own background story for the person in […]
The German art duo Herakut is made up of two German artists, Jamin and Falk who also go by the names Hera and Akut. The pair combines their talents and their love of both street art and fine art to create beautiful, emotive paintings that bring graffiti art into art galleries in the form of […]