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Charlotte Caron’s Painted PortraitsCharlotte Caron, graduating from Fine Arts with honors just last year, already has an impressive body of work. Chunked into four series—Landscapes, Portraits, Vanities, and Anatomy—the unique treatment of the Portraits have particularly stood out. A beautifully imaginative hybrid of humans and animals, “this series of
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Martin Schoeller’s Celebrity PortraitsI just stumbled over the amazing work of New York based photographer Martin Schoeller, who’s best known for his tight portraits or “Close Up” series. Schoeller has also been working for
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Sarah Esteje’s Pen IllustrationsIllustrating is hard enough as is, but Sarah Esteje does so without a hitch. At least that’s what we see from her on-point Bic pen work. A young artist born in 1987, Sarah has already studied at both LISAA (L’Institut Supérieur des Arts Appliqués) and Gobelins, where she took up photography. Her training in both [...]
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Steven Spazuk’s Soot ArtMost artists usually just take a brush or pen to paper, Steven Spazuk prefers to use a flame. The French Canadian artist has developed this unique technique for about 10 years now, which entails essentially burning a thick sheet of paper, and then manipulating the soot left behind until
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Greg Peltz’s Victorian Star Wars PortraitsThese wonderful Victorian styled portraits of Star Wars characters were done by Greg Peltz whom works at Pixar. And if you are a Star Wars fan and want to hang these in your home you can purchase
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Portraits by Loretta LuxFrom The Omen’s devilish Damien to those chilling twins in The Shining, there’s always been an unsettling connection between children and the genre of horror within popular culture. This is something that artsit-turned-photgrapher Loretta Lux captures brilliantly in her surreal portraits of young children. Loretta’s work is
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Lucas Simoes Cut-out PortraitsThe cut-out portraits of Brazilian artist Lucas Simões are pretty amazing, consisting of layering the same photo up to 10 times, he invites intimate friends over to tell him a secret as he takes their portrait. However, his intention was not to hear their secret, but to capture the
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Anja Van Herle Portraits PaintingsBased in Los Angeles, the Belgium-born artist Anja Van Herle has been painting portraits since she was a child. Her paintings are an attempt to tell these stories by capturing delicate facial expressions and juxtaposing them with vibrant color and the dramatic interplay of shadow and light.
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Alex Castro Animal PortraitsWe love when illustrators or photographers create artwork with animals. Here are Mexican graphic designer Alex Castro animal portraits. With his great photoshop skills, we could almost think these half human/half animals are real!
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Nick Gentry : Salvaging Discarded MediaArtist and Central Saint Martins graduate Nick Gentry creates recycled art with obsolete media storage as his medium. After assembling canvases by puzzling together floppy disks with all kinds of different data, he paints portraits of over them. “The floppy disk stands firm and lives on as a metaphor for the increasing pace of the [...]
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Danny Treacy’s Re-fashioned Junk Monsters from Lonely PlacesPhotographer Danny Treacy recovers discarded clothing he finds lying around in lonely places such as streets, car parks and waste ground. He then re-stitches, re-fashioned: re-modeled into junk monsters – uncanny suits that he wears in life-sized portraits in his series Them.
They belonged to the unknown, the anonymous, the lost, the drunken and looming out of the black background the faceless figures evoke urban warriors, mythical beasts, distorted creatures. It seem that something that happened to its former owner emanates from each piece of fabric, making the attire all the more haunting.