Martine Johanna paints compelling women portraits that are perfectly (and deliberately) imperfect. “I don’t want them to fall flat or be just pretty," she noted once, in an interview with The HYDE Magazine, "I want life in them and experiences because that is what makes people interesting."
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“Most of the characters are not airbrush perfect or standard but the color palette...
Miriam Escofet is a gifted Spanish
artist who creates hyper-realistic portraits of people. Born in 1967, the award-winning
painter is currently living and creating in the UK. She comes from an artistic
family, so her path came naturally.
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“I look at paintings as portals -
worlds one can visually step into and be transported and sometimes even
transformed by. I believe the primary function...
Irene Raspollini’s portraits have distinct characteristics. Mostly centered around women, her characters are painted with dramatic blushes that make them appear either flustered or forever blushing. With a love of both pop culture and kitsch, her artwork has a tongue-in-cheek quality to it that's well-intended. In other words: it's all fun and games.
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But this particular style took Raspollini some...
Claire Brewster’s artwork is an experiment of sorts—an exploration of mediums and techniques such as collage, painting, pouring, stippling, and layering paint on paper or card. The result is a colorful, rather delightful, sort of mess.
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“I am always testing the materials, colors, and textures to act beyond what I expect and can control,” Brewster relayed in a piece...
Ed Fairburn's portraits stand out not only for their craftsmanship and attention to detail, but more importantly, for their unique canvas. Describing his art as a combination of cartography and portraiture, Fairburn relies on original maps as the basis of his work. Employing ink and pencil, he intervenes with these maps, making gradual changes from which a human...
Maria Rivans' collage art stems from a love of vintage ephemera. Having collected over the years an impressive collection of antique books and retro magazines, she cuts out fragments and scraps which form the basis of her work. The work itself, she admits, is not unlike piecing together an unruly jigsaw puzzle.
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As such, it requires much time and patience,...
PJ McQuade turned designing geeky Valentine's Day cards into a tradition given that he does it year after year. For V-Day 2020, he made a series of 21 cards inspired by pop culture and we're sure your significant other would love to receive one of them!
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Express your love and admiration with one of the amazing cards that include popular...
Sseongryul is the pseudonym for a Korean artist interested in graphic novels and illustrations. Being inspired by fiction, the Seoul-based artist who chooses watercolor as her medium thinks that good writing has a lot of room for interpretation, and it's rich in invisible images, which stimulate her imagination.
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Browsing through her Instagram account,
where sseongryul has attracted more
than 36,000 followers, you...
Dolan Geiman's collage art has an ethical core. Made from reused materials he has collected and salvaged since being a child, his collages are assembled from a variety of sources: anything from reclaimed wood and salvaged metal to vintage papers.
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Handcrafting each work from start to finish, the result is highly textured and intricately detailed art pieces and collages that...
Gavin Snider is a Brooklyn-based artist whose sketches and murals perfectly capture the vibe of New York City. Snider is always on the go, traveling among the city’s boroughs to catch the heart of the city onto paper. He finds inspiration in unusual places; places that most people walk past without paying much attention.
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His unique style helps him create...
