Carine Arnakis is a Romanian artist behind these gorgeous portraits of women. She creates her illustrations using patterns and often plays with the surroundings, matching her subjects’ outfits to the world around them. They either blend into the background or stand out with contrasting colors.
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Arnakis used to focus on folk art and has always been into patterns and colors....
Born into a family of artists, it only made sense that Kaye Blegvad learned a thing or two. And by a thing or two, we mean to say a plethora of skills. Describing herself as a general maker-of-things, Blegvad works as both illustrator and designer employing a variety of media, including ceramics, metalwork, textiles, and print. She also runs Horizontal...
Lucy Pass' portraits are meant to be incomplete. Featuring little to no background, her subjects look as though they're floating in time and space. At times they look out of focus, and in some cases, whole chunks of them seem to be missing.
Such is the case in a recent series of paintings, where Pass focused on the human...
Illustrator José Antonio Roda continuously evolves as an artist, treating his style as something absolutely open, growing up and alive. “I’ve never planned my style and my career," he told Cup of Couple. "Everything comes from passion and intuition.”
Still, one thing is constant throughout his work: his love for simplicity. Focusing mainly on female subjects, his illustrations...
Ted Feighan's collage art is a unique blend of tropical plants and animals with a vintage aesthetic. Based in Cleveland, he runs a lifestyle brand that creates art-focused accessories, apparel, and home goods. But his upbeat aesthetic also shines through his music, as his music project, titled Monster Rally, produces sample-based exotica, tropicalia, and hip hop.
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Gwen Murphy's shoe sculpture series was aptly named "Foot Fetish". Each pair has faces implemented where the foot should go, making for a surreal, if a bit unsettling effect.
Murphy paints the faces so that each one has a recognizable personality and emotion, which matches its shoe model. Sometimes they look at each other and communicate, other times they're looking...
The history of painting is as old as time, but unfortunately, time has its downsides when it comes to conservation. As time passes, paintings tend to collect dust and grime, the paint itself begins to crack, and what once were vibrant colors have faded into nothing. Thankfully, Julian Baumgartner can restore any old painting!
The Chicago-Based restorer works around the clock to...
Traditional art, the kind we see in museums, is beautiful as it is important. But it also tends to be a bit… repetitive. Most paintings depict Mythological creatures, kings and queens, military leaders and conquerors. It's all very inspiring, but not exactly relatable – and that's exactly what Kehinde Wiley decided to change.
Wiley is is a Nigerian-American portrait...
Embroidery is a craft that's been
around for hundreds of years. So what more can be done with it that hasn't been
done yet? According to Ipnot, a lot.
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Ipnot is a Japanese embroidery artist
who's invented her own style of embroidery. She originally learned how to
embroider from her grandmother, and used the craft as a creative outlet.
But soon she started...
If you look at Philip Barlow's paintings for the first time, you might think there's something wrong with your eyes. But don't worry, it's not you – it's the paintings.
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Myopia is a very common vision problem
around the world. People who suffer from it have trouble seeing objects that are
placed at a distance – the farther the object is,...
