With her 50 Rebel Women series, Vix Harris decided to showcase pioneers for a year who broke the glass ceiling — each in their own way. Influenced by her training as a textile designer, this British-born artist adorns the black-and-white portraits of these epic women with brightly colored motifs.
Now residing in Singapore, Harris has spent her childhood in Kenya and...
At the beginning of the twentieth century, surrealist painters, such as Rene Magritte and Max Ernst, had re-discovered the techniques of the composition of faces hidden in their paintings. Later, Guiseppe Arcimboldo also used this technique of composition. Specializing for many years in optical illusions, Ukrainian painter Oleg Shuplyak creates intriguing paintings that represent famous historical figures such as...
Sometimes the shadows of everyday objects have a life of their own and give interesting ideas to artists. For the Belgian illustrator Vincent Bal, everything begins with a shadow: the shadows dropped by everyday objects create whimsical doodles. The artist posts many ideas in the form of Instagram snapshots, but continues to enjoy himself — and viewers — with the...
Katrina Yu said that she tells stories through images. She loves reading books because she believes they are the ultimate time machines.
“They have the power to take us back to the past and feel how it is to live during that time, to the future with their ideas, or even to an alternate world - one where our imagination...
Emi Nakajima has an eye for detail. This artist draws in ink all kinds of architecture and buildings around the world. The most impressive part of her creations is the precision and detail in each of these art pieces. Nakajima painstakingly reproduces buildings (mainly places of worship) such as the Sagrada Familia, Big Ben, and the Gothic cathedrals of...
Nicholas Baker is an illustrator based in Salt Lake City, Utah. He draws his main source of inspiration from the wilderness that surrounds the city he lives in, and he represents it with a very special technique. Baker uses the technique of pointillism, and all his drawings are made up of millions of tiny dots drawn by hand.
With a...
Carving wood to give it fine and delicate forms is hard work, and Gabriel Schama is one of the few virtuosos of this craft.
This New Zealand artist hypnotizes Instagram with his wooden sculptures looking straight out of a kaleidoscope. He achieves the stunning finesse of carving using nothing less than a laser cutter — and because this cutter is...
A French street artist has found an innovative way of making a living. Pascal Boyart, also known as PBOY, has incorporated QR codes into his murals, allowing passersby to finance him by sending him Bitcoins. PBOY tried the experiment to include a QR code at a signing in November 2017, and surprisingly, it worked. To date, he has received...
Suzan Drummen is a Dutch artist who uses thousands of tiny crystals and other bright objects to create decorative installations that are visually arresting. Her designs, resembling textile patterns and kaleidoscopes, are placed on walls, ceilings or floors. Surprisingly, she says she never follows a ready plan for each of her art creations.
Her objective is to surprise the viewers...
Mariusz Kedzierski is a 25-year-old Polish artist who creates hyperrealistic portraits. There are many artists out there who draws great portraits like Mariusz but his drawings are the most exceptional having born without arms. His talent was discovered when he was just 3 years old.
He has been selling his paintings in many countries like Great Britain, USA, Australia, South...
