Palette knife and oils

03/28/2013 by chicquero

Leonid Afremov (born 12 July 1955 in Vitebsk, Belarus) is a Russian–Israeli modern impressionistic artist who works mainly with a palette knife and oils. He developed his own unique technique and style which is unmistakable and cannot be confused with other artists. Afremov is mainly known as being a self-representing artist who promotes and sells his work exclusively over the internet with very little exhibitions and involvement of dealers and galleries. The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude. Friedrich Nietzsche […]

Categories: Artsy • Tags: art, artist, arts, artsy, beautiful, colorful, illustration, impressionism, knife, Leonid Afremov, modern, oil, paint, paintings

Artistic street murals

02/14/2013 by chicquero

Sao Paulo-based street artist Eduardo Kobra creates fantastic large scale murals that are filled with vibrant color and life. Below, we’ve also included a few more select murals that the artist has completed over his career.   “Art is an evolutionary act. The shape of art and its role in society is constantly changing. At no point is art static. There are no rules.” Raymond Salvatore Harmon, BOMB: A Manifesto of Art Terrorism YOU MAY ALSO LIKE Cool strokes Maps and Illustrations […]

Categories: Artsy • Tags: art, arts, artsy, brazil, colorful, Eduardo Kobra, illustration, large art, murals, painter, sao paulo, street, street art, street artist, urban, vibrant

Pop Jewelry

01/11/2013 by chicquero

. Alexandra Bruel is a french art director and illustrator based in Paris. Originating from a design background, Alexandra Bruel first began working with modeling clay a few years ago and soon built up a striking portfolio that has been used in conjunction with animation, textile design, photography, sculpture and illustration. Bruel studied graphic design at the Gobelins School in Paris and during her degree she began to work with plasticine. Alexandra is represented by Handsome Frank, a London based agency that represents some of […]

Categories: Artsy, Fashion • Tags: Alexandra Bruel, arts, artsy, clay, Fashion, Handsome Frank, jewelry, plasticine, pop, pop art, Vogue

Abandoned Paintings

12/10/2012 by chicquero

A Hungarian artist took classic paintings by Old Masters like Leonardo da Vinci and Sandro Botticelli and turned them into eerie snapshots of Renaissance-era ghost towns. It’s part of a series titled “Abandoned Paintings,” which is an impressive project undertaken by fine art student Bence Hajdu. Using a little modern technology, he takes famous scenes from “The Last Supper” to “The Annunciation” and transforms them into haunting spaces by erasing the characters and figures that populate the frames. What’s left is an […]

Categories: Artsy • Tags: abandoned, architecture, artists, arts, artsy, bence hajdu, characters, classic, empty, paintings, renaissance, spaces

My body is a landscape

12/04/2012 by chicquero

Californian photographer Jean Paul Bourdier creates haunting photo graphics that show his viewers the environment from inside out by painting the bodies of the models, which makes them look like one with the desert landscape. Bourdier is the author of Bodyscapes (introduction and dvd by Trinh T. Minh-ha), co-author with Trinh Minh-ha of Vernacular Architecture of West Africa, Habiter un monde, African Spaces and Drawn from African Dwellings. Production designer of seven films and co-director of two films directed by Trinh T. […]

Categories: Artsy, Photography • Tags: abstract, art, arts, artsy, beautiful, body, colorful, desert landscape, Jean Paul Bourdier, landscape, modern, painted, paintings, people, photography

Hilarious realistic paintings

12/01/2012 by chicquero

For more than 35 years, Tos Kostermans has been an art painter . He works and exhibits all over the world. His painting style you can describe as magic realism with a touch of impressionisme (Imprealism). Tos is from the Netherlands and he is well known with the techniques of other great Dutch painters like Van Gogh, Karel Appel, Corneille,and Kees van Dongen. Behavior of people is a big inspiration for his paintings. Tos is specialised in portraits. Because of […]

Categories: Artsy, Laugh • Tags: arts, artsy, Celebrities, cool, funny, hilarious, imprealism, impressionism, paintings, realistic, Tos Kostermans

Burning Matcheads!

11/26/2012 by chicquero

David Mach studied at the Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art, Dundee from 1974 to 1979 and subsequently at the Royal College of Art, London from 1979 to 1982. Mach is a Scottish sculptor and installation artist. David’s artistic style is based on flowing assemblages of mass-produced objects. These impressive works of art are the result of meticulous work with thousands of tiny, colourful, Japanese matches which have been used to portray famous faces and recreate legendary artworks. However, despite his hard work […]

Categories: Artsy • Tags: art, arts, artsy, burn, cool, David Mach, fire, head, match, matches, matchsticks, sculptures

Maps and Illustrations

11/16/2012 by chicquero

Ric Stultz lives in Milwaukee, Wisconsin in a little house with his girlfriend and dog. Other than working in the studio his favorite activity is gardening.  Stultz days are mostly spent in the studio working on client projects and painting. The style of his illustrations are hand drawn images with bright colours and hard edge line work. The artist prefers to create most of his work by hand and use the computer only for output and minor adjustments. Using traditional tools and techniques […]

Categories: Artsy • Tags: animals, arts, artsy, bright colours, cool, geography, hand draw, illustration, maps, paintings, photoshop, Ric Stultz, style

Hyperphotos

11/14/2012 by chicquero

Jean-François Rauzier, French artist, born 1952. Fascinated by photography from an early age, Jean-François Rauzier graduated from the School Louis Lumière in 1976. He has since been working as a professional photographer, while developing a personal creative work. J.F Rauzier was immediately captivated by numerical photography when it penetrated the professional market 15 years ago. He has been exploring the multiple opportunities offered by computer’s retouching since then, turning himself into a “virtual” painter. In 2002, he created the “Hyperphoto”, a concept […]

Categories: Photography • Tags: architecture, art, arts, artsy, city, cool, Design, digital, Europe, hyperphoto, Jean François Rauzier, manipulation, photo, photography, photoshop, retouching

Pencil Shavings

11/12/2012 by chicquero

Marta Altés (Barcelona, 1982), studied graphic design in Barcelona and after working there as a graphic designer for almost five years, Altés decided to pursue her interest for illustration. The artist moved to England and joined the MA in Children’s Book Illustration at the Cambridge School of Art. Such a simple idea, but illustrator Marta Altes has made it into an artsy series of work, pencil shavings at its finest. “The average pencil is seven inches long, with just a half-inch eraser – in case you […]

Categories: Artsy • Tags: art, arts, artsy, book illustration, cool, illustration, Marta Altes, pencil, pencil shavings

Photo impressionism

11/07/2012 by chicquero

Josh Adamski has captured stunning images and turned them into works of fine art with his keen eye. He was born and raised in the UK and is now based in Israel. Much of Adamski’s work is focused around water as he lives near the beach and draws inspiration from the sea. After a photograph is taken, editing takes place to make the image more abstract and turn it into something even more powerful. The colors that Adamski brings out […]

Categories: Photography • Tags: abstract, art, artsy, beach, colors, fine art, images, impressionism, josh adamski, ladscape, nature, people, photo, photography, stunning, sunset

Flesh and acrylic

10/08/2012 by chicquero

“Flesh and Acrylic” is Ben Heine’s latest project (started in 2011). Ben creates abstract acrylic paintings on large wooden panels. The main idea is to create a surface blending the model with the background. Indeed, the particularity of the project resides in the fact that a living person is integrated in the artwork and is part of the whole composition. The end result is often wild and very colorful. Once the painting is finished, Ben takes pictures of it. The photos […]

Categories: Artsy • Tags: abstract, acrylic, acrylic paint, art, arts, artsy, Ben Heine, blending, body, colorful, flesh, large, modern, paintings, panels, people

Tiny Penny Paintings

09/28/2012 by chicquero

Jacqueline Lou Skaggs‘ penny paintings turn the unloved currency into tiny circular canvases with incredible detail. Aside from the impressive maneuvering of oil paint that recalls 17th century Dutch masters, we admire Skaggs‘ desire to rescue the runts of the capitalist litter, saving them from a life spent below couch cushions or forgotten in pockets. This small body of twelve works consist of images painted on found, discarded pennies. These pictures pay homage to, not only, the binding ideologies that […]

Categories: Artsy • Tags: arts, artsy, coin, cool, Jacqueline Lou Skaggs, mini, miniature, Odd Art, Painted Money, Painted Pennies, painting, penny, Skaggs Penny Painting

Fallout of urban sprawl

09/18/2012 by chicquero

Daniel Danger is an illustrator and printmaker working out of New England. Amidst old houses dead from the fallout of urban sprawl, railway bridges asleep from neglect, and trees that engulf everything; his work attempts to remind you of something you may have said to someone, or something someone may have said to you; back in that time period thats just too far away to remember clearly, but not so long ago you forgot about it completely. His memories and many […]

Categories: Artsy • Tags: abandoned, art, arts, artsy, daniel danger, dark, fallout, ghosts, illustration, old houses, printmaker, urban

Leather kids

08/31/2012 by chicquero

Sabi van Hemert, lives and works in Rotterdam. Hemert creates sculptures that are a fusion between child and animals. Her sculptures have a quality of alternately denying and confirming what you think you see in them and what feeling they give you. Because it is not immediately clear what you are seeing, the relation between viewer and sculpture is more complex. “I create images that evoke associations with people and animals. I imagine the balance between the many conflicting feelings and thoughts […]

Categories: Artsy • Tags: art, arts, artsy, child, cool, kids, leather, sabi van hemert, sculptures

Funny objects in real life

07/23/2012 by chicquero

Terry Border’s photo blog Bent Objects, begun in 2006, anthropomorphizes inanimate objects using bits of wire and a few props. He creates scintillating inner lives for the ordinary things that most of us take for granted. Originally, Border says, his bent-object sculptures and photo scenes came about almost by accident. He studied photography in school and initially made his living as a commercial photographer. When that grew old he tried cartooning, then landed in sculpture. All objects, all phases of culture are […]

Categories: Laugh, Photography • Tags: art, artsy, bent objects, clever, creative, food, funny, humor, objects, photography, Terry Border

Living paintings

07/16/2012 by chicquero

Alexa Meade is an American artist. While Meade has worked in a variety of sculptural media, she is known for her installations, which feature real models situated in tableau scenes painted to look like two-dimensional paintings. Rather than creating representational paintings on a flat canvas, Alexa Meade creates her representational paintings directly on top of the physical subjects that she is referencing. When photographed, the representational painting and the subject being referenced appear to be one and the same as […]

Categories: Artsy • Tags: 2D, 3D, alexa meade, art, artsy, body, canvas, cool, live, optical illusion, painting, real, two dimensional paintings

Celebrities illustrated

06/27/2012 by chicquero

Pablo Lobato is a graphic designer and illustrator from Buenos Aires, Argentina. Soon after finishing his studies, Pablo started working as a graphic designer for different magazines. This, however, only lasted five years, since total boredom drove him back to his first passion – illustrations. Today, Pablo has made quite a name for him self in Argentina where he lives and works. His work is trully amazing, I love the colors, shapes and his “picasso” vibe. For more info about Pablo Lobato […]

Categories: Design, Laugh • Tags: actors, art, arts, artsy, celebrity, cool, designer, graphic design, illustration, pablo lobato, Singer

“Alice in wonderland” by Salvador Dali

06/25/2012 by chicquero

Surrealist Salvador Dali’s unique interpretation of Alice In Wonderland, 1969. Take me, I am the drug; take me, I am hallucinogenic. Salvador Dali >>>YOU MAY ALSO LIKE<<< Alice in UnderWaterland Dissected artists Alice in Wonderland Costume Their Wonderland Wonderland in Bugsland

Categories: Artsy • Tags: 1969, alice in wonderland, art, artsy, cool, dali, drawings, paintings, Salvador Dali, surrealist

Photo manipulation for fashion

06/09/2012 by chicquero

Nowadays, artists are using too many different tools and technics to inspire us. The following post is a very interesting and beautiful mixture of Illustration and photo manipulation created by fashion brand Allen Solly. Tracing back to its origins in 1744, Allen Solly was born in Nottingham. A history steeped in rich traditions, Allen Solly used to dress royalty. Word about it spread and it not only became the talk of the town but in over 50 countries. The brand was recognized by […]

Categories: Artsy, Fashion • Tags: allen solly, arts, artsy, draw, Fashion, fun, illustration, photo manipulation, photography

Mini fantasy world

05/31/2012 by chicquero

Growing up between Detroit, Los Angeles, and New York, Laura Plansker got her start in photography as a child, taking pictures of dolls having tea parties and stuffed animals hanging from trees in her backyard. In conjunction with photography she has spent many years set decorating and constructing miniatures for both film and commercials. It is through this combination of fields that her work has developed into the detailed world of photo-dioramas. Her overwhelming desire to jump the boats at Disney Land […]

Categories: Artsy, Laugh • Tags: animals, arts, artsy, craft, dioramas, fantasy, illustration, kids, magical, miniature, photography, toys, world