Since I tend to make multimedia projects instead of two dimensional art, I find Lyndie Dourthe’s work positively inspiring (particularly the Anatomie series pictured below).
My head is spinning with ideas…
Category: art
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Back in September, I wrote about etched glass bottles left by a mystery artist. Now, her identity has been revealed!
These beauties are the work of Charlotte Hughes-Martin.
In an interview with the newspaper, she explained: “I like to give people a surprise and make them do a doubletake when they step outside their front doors in the morning to pick up their pints of milk…Everyone should be able to enjoy art in their everyday life and I just love the idea that my designs could bring a smile to someone’s face as they make a cup of tea in the morning.” –Source
I prefer to believe that the bottle offerings were a strictly humanitarian endeavor, but I give credit to this project as one of the most brilliant marketing plans I’ve ever encountered. It’s refreshing when someone discovers a way to skirt the overwhelming saturation of internet promotion and still gain attention.
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Check your notions of time, space and reality at the door, and give yourself over to the world of Sergei Aparin.
His paintings are magical, dark, chaotic, beautiful surrealism at its best.
I could study these endlessly and still find new stories…
Go get lost in the galleries.
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Trust me when I tell you that you’ve never seen face painting like that of hawhawjames in your life. It manipulates the mind’s eye, skews perception and is simply all-around amazing.
I never bothered to get my face painted at carnivals (a little flower or peace sign begged the question “Why bother?”). But if I could have come home looking like this, you better believe I’d have been first in line!
There are hundreds of photos in his outstanding Flickr sets. You don’t want to miss them!
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Since I’m such a compulsive scavenger of art, I’m greatly appreciative when someone calls my attention to an artist I’ve not yet seen. So thanks to agmac for introducing me to the work of Jeremy Forson.
Browsing through his work you’ll find zombies, eye-catching collages, tattoos, shirts, etc. He gives a new slant to traditional comic-style art, and is fantastically hard to describe.
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I have a penchant for ocular excess in art. Bright, shiny, deep, expressive, inhumanly large eyes. Patrick Fatica is quite adept at depicting massive eyes in rich, compelling color schemes.
I’ve always found eyes to be the most beautiful and interesting feature of human beings, so I suppose it makes sense that I’m intrigued by their artistic exaggeration.
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I can find very little information on Romanian surrealist painter Mihai Criste.
Many modern surrealists produce very complex work with multiple areas of focus in a each painting. Although I love pieces that give my eyes and mind a workout, it’s actually rather refreshing to see surrealism concentrate on a central subject.
Clean, crisp, lovely.
His blog seems to contain the best collection of images.
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I’m at a loss when it comes to describing Quintana’s work and why I love it so much. It is the warm color scheme? The combination of retro, pulp, pop, skulls, graffiti, creatures and classy femme fatales? Something like that, I’m sure.
I couldn’t find a web site for him, but he does have a myspace page.
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Eric Beltz creates the most wonderfully strange amalgams of history, botanical imagery, symbolism and obscenities in ornate Gothic lettering.
They are “high definition” pencil drawings, resting comfortably between satire and distant idealism.
So much better than my own pencil sketches!
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Liz Wolfe creates a vibrantly colored world of contradiction in her photographs.
You’ll find candy that bleeds and other inedible delicacies, slightly menacing sugar crystal landscapes, tentacles and animal parts gently curled among the garden flowers…
The color scheme and composition are really exquisite. Have a look.
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