photography
The goop of a freshly-peeled Polaroid gets on my hand. I look up at my subject and thank them for the time they're giving me...For allowing me to come into their life, for coming into mine. It's another story heard, a friend made, a collaboration felt. We're closer, we know each other. Our notions of each other prior to this moment are out the door. It's my hope that this is what will unify you and I, this world. That and a frosty Guinness ...Love you, folks.
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painting
Evan says "most would cringe at the idea of scratching or sanding something they spent hours painting, but that's my favorite art - creating the appearance that this wasn't made in the 21st century." And he's a self-taught artist, no less. You can view his work on his website at www.evanbharris.com, and you can buy prints online from
Charmingwall.
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painting
As my world view evolves so do my choices of media and themes. I draw inspiration from the people around me and current events to form a chaotic bricolage of pretty fragments. Recurring themes of my work include, technological fragmentation and it's implications for our lives. Abstracting the backgrounds, I add increasingly cohesive layers, often including figures, braille, handwritten text, and minutiae line work. The intentional symbols intermingle with the unintentional to encourage imagination through suggestion.
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painting
I am interested in showing the difficulty and discomfort in fully understanding a person. I leave my subjects incomplete to highlight their limitations, as well as my own inability to see the subject beyond the influence of myself.
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painting
I was raised by a television in suburban America. One of my first memories is the colors of the cereal aisle flashing by as I rode in my mom's grocery cart I'm more likely to notice an ad on the side of the highway than the forest behind it.
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mixed media
Tessa Scott grew up on the green pacific islands of New Zealand where she trained in painting at the University of Canterbury and later design and illustration at the Sydney Design Institute, Australia. Scott's illustrations celebrate her love of colour combined with her interest in psychology & people. She creates intriguing figurative images with a charmingly surreal quality. Tessa Scott has an MA in Creative Writing and is currently writing and illustrating a collection of fairytales for adults. She has lived and worked in Germany since mid 2006.
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painting
My work is a series of attempts to describe things which are not describable in words. I arrived at abstraction through landscapes and remain interested in the spatial qualities of images and the way the gestural marks of an artist reflect natural phenomena.
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mixed media
Katie Sokoler AKA Color Me Katie is a specialist at working with strangers. She promotes human interaction through her work and captures the results of humans in their natural habitat when mixed with fantasy or fun. In both her recent projects, the Brooklyn Thought Bubble Project and the Shadow Project, Katie stages creative traps and lies in wait to capture special moments on camera.
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painting
As I unwillingly stumble into adulthood I am learning to build walls, to shut up childish tendencies; to conceal passion or fear in its unruly excess; protect my precious image. Yet these are the very things that make me real. They toss and turn and pull us in all kinds of directions. The things that writers scribble into words and composers pull out of the notes of a piano. But instead, the image of a figure, existing in a space, in order to summon a metaphor, is what I contribute to the reliving of something organically human.
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painting
I am driven by an exploration of wordless inquiries with long tendrils. My paintings are an attempt at answering these pleading questions of the gut. I enjoy linking things that seem unrelated and employ relationships in form and a sense of fluidity in this expedition. I utilize undulatiation to convey the odd outgrowths and knotted dreams that convolute us. I'm inspired by the interaction between man and myth, biology and spirituality, function and meaning.
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digital
Particularly interested in using only the black and white palette to create illustrations, leaving some rooms for people to imagine and create meanings behind the images; And Le Avventure del Cane Picio is my ongoing illustration project, which I use the illustrations to record things happening around me and inspiring to my everyday life.
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drawing
Music, art, movies, fashion, or some visions I get while walking, can be my inspiration. I love doing figurative illustration. Compositions, colors, and nuanced face expressions are important to deliver the atmosphere of the person or the event.
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painting
In this work I re-imagine myself and my friends as characters in a two-dimensional world. Some of the portraits are on oval boards, or incorporate an ornate frame, suggesting a sentimentalized vision of the subject, much like a cameo or an old photograph. Each image does not so much represent a friend as recall her, envisioning her in a timeless, reverent space. Painting a portrait allows me to distill into a single image innumerable experiences, thoughts and emotions that relate to a particular person. In this way the paintings are totems or avatars, portraits of gods from a personal mythology.
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digital
I am an Italian illustrator specializing in children's illustration, classic fairly tales, magazine illustrations, advertising illustration and more.
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painting
I'm a self-taught artist and have been painting for about 15 years now. Though I do love color, my favorite is to paint black and white images.
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digital
Ogechi Chieke is a mixed, multi-media communicator who is 28-years young on the journey of human spiritual development. She holds a MFA from SVA and BFA from Howard University. Both degrees are in Computer Art. In addition to being a computer whiz kid, Ogechi is also a natural born "earth mama". She identifies herself as a creator and healer and believes the role of the artist as an educator and social engineer is tantamount to societal evolution. She frequently collaborates with nature, musicians, photographers, and regular people.
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mixed media
Born in Oslo, Norway, Ben Jelter lives in San Francisco where he works on illustration and sequential art. Ben also instructs classes on figure drawing, character design and comics at the Academy of Art University in San Francisco. He has received multiple recognitions and awards from the Academy of Art and the Society of Illustrators including the Academy's Best of Sequential Art award and the Society of Illustrators' Norma and Alvin Pimsler award.
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drawing
Cole Gerst is a graphic artist, illustrator, animator and painter in Los Angeles, California. Originally from the deep south of Albany, Georgia, he grew up surrounded by many outsider and folk
artists, including his grandfather, a respected local craftsman. As a kid, Cole enjoyed many of these artists' fantastical stories about faraway lands, or conversations with Higher Powers. He was inspired by their ability to create art that revealed the world as only they saw it. He now heads up the firm, option-g, which is a multidisciplinary design firm which provides illustration, graphic design, art commisions and animation to the music and entertainment industry.
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digital
M.S. Corley is a qualified illustrator and graphic artist whose work reflects his determination to showcase seemingly "normal" ideas in completely new and striking ways. Raised in Northern Florida, Corley now lives with his wife and childhood pet (a golden retriever named Cinnamon) in Kirkland, Washington.
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digital
I just love drawing.I love how any artist old or young can look at anything, and bring out the true beauty of that object,it just fascinates me
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