blue Archives - MobiSpirit MobiSpirit Tue, 25 Feb 2020 07:22:57 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.2 Introduction to Blues: Kevin Lucbert’s Pen Illustrations https://mobispirit.com/introduction-to-blues-kevin-lucberts-pen-illustrations/ Thu, 27 Feb 2020 13:37:00 +0000 https://mobispirit.com/?p=22256 Kevin Lucbert has come to be recognized for his blue-toned illustrations, made using biro BIC pens on Moleskine drawing paper—tools that are simple and light enough to be carried with him wherever he goes. “I like the idea of expressing the most with the humblest implement,” he explained his very specific creative choices in an […]

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Kevin Lucbert has come to be recognized for his blue-toned illustrations, made using biro BIC pens on Moleskine drawing paper—tools that are simple and light enough to be carried with him wherever he goes. “I like the idea of expressing the most with the humblest implement,” he explained his very specific creative choices in an interview with Jung Katz.

According to Lucbert, monochrome illustrations communicate his ideas best, allowing him to express his thoughts with greater visual impact. “Decorative and superficial elements become less important then,” he notes. Amongst his works, you can find ghost-like characters exploring dream-like landscapes, the color blue adding an additional layer of mystique.

“Art creates a distancing effect that allows the artist to express his own ideas to an audience in a peaceful manner,” reflected Lucbert. Based between Berlin and Paris, he’s also a member of the artist collective, The Ensaders, and participates regularly in performances and exhibitions. He has also collaborated with publications and brands like The New York Times, Hermès, and Starbucks.

With his more personal work, inspiration can be found in dreams, geometrical patterns, and other creators and writers. “I admire also children books artists like Tomy Ungerer and also comic books artists like François Schuiten and Benoît Peeters,” he notes. “Their wonderful comic book La Tour was one of my biggest influences as a child.”

We recommend you follow his Instagram page.

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50 Shades of Blue: Laxmi Hussain’s Paintings https://mobispirit.com/50-shades-of-blue-laxmi-hussains-paintings/ Mon, 17 Feb 2020 09:19:00 +0000 https://mobispirit.com/?p=21621 Scrolling through Laxmi Hussain’s Instagram page, one thing is clearly evident: her fondness of the color blue (but don’t call it an obsession). Known for her simple, but elegant, style of painting, her work often seems incomplete—a bird reduced to an outline or a face with an absent feature. This incompleteness is deliberate, obliging her […]

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Scrolling through Laxmi Hussain’s Instagram page, one thing is clearly evident: her fondness of the color blue (but don’t call it an obsession). Known for her simple, but elegant, style of painting, her work often seems incomplete—a bird reduced to an outline or a face with an absent feature.

This incompleteness is deliberate, obliging her viewers to pause and engage with the artwork, filling in the absences themselves rather than dismissing it and moving on. It also adds to a sense of openness to her creations, which added to her use of blue, makes for a calming, even inviting, effect.

With thousands of followers on Instagram and exhibitions in galleries and art events around London, Hussain has also appealed to a variety of commercial clients and individuals. Working in several different media, she admits to being driven by experimentation, constantly exploring new techniques and searching for the shapes and subjects they express best. 

As such, inspiration comes easy for her, sought out from the mundanities of everyday life: patterns found in home interiors, natural shapes found outside, and geometric, structured shapes, taken from architecture. Here are some of her more striking pieces.

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Dear Ma, I’ve been trying to think about the things I might have missed. Things I might have said to you, embraces I might have missed, a smile I should have given, a touch I could have spared. In truth, I know you’d never think I missed anything, you are so selfless, you loved everything about us, even your moments of upset or anger were things we giggled about after the moment had passed. Waking up is the hardest, although I’ve barely slept since you left us, I wake with a heavy heart, trying to remember something about you. My thoughts are so vivid because that’s how much you loved us, I can’t forget a single thing. Your softness, your beautiful laugh, how when you talked Tagalog or Ilocano it was like hearing happiness, if that’s possible. I miss how it felt to know you were coming home, how often I would wait for you, or get up when you got home to greet you, just because I had to see you. It’s hard to keep this all inside and keep moving, to let time take us feels like I move away from you, from our last touch, our last kiss, our last embrace. I miss you more than I ever thought possible and I keep waiting to wake from this terrible dream, but I can’t and all I want is to sit by your side watching stupid crime-fiction dramas and drinking a good cup of tea. Most of all I miss how it felt like you would sing my name, everytime you called me. I love you ma. #TeresitaDoriaNicolas

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ersion="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> blue Archives - MobiSpirit MobiSpirit Tue, 25 Feb 2020 07:22:57 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.2 Introduction to Blues: Kevin Lucbert’s Pen Illustrations https://mobispirit.com/introduction-to-blues-kevin-lucberts-pen-illustrations/ Thu, 27 Feb 2020 13:37:00 +0000 https://mobispirit.com/?p=22256 Kevin Lucbert has come to be recognized for his blue-toned illustrations, made using biro BIC pens on Moleskine drawing paper—tools that are simple and light enough to be carried with him wherever he goes. “I like the idea of expressing the most with the humblest implement,” he explained his very specific creative choices in an […]

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Kevin Lucbert has come to be recognized for his blue-toned illustrations, made using biro BIC pens on Moleskine drawing paper—tools that are simple and light enough to be carried with him wherever he goes. “I like the idea of expressing the most with the humblest implement,” he explained his very specific creative choices in an interview with Jung Katz.

According to Lucbert, monochrome illustrations communicate his ideas best, allowing him to express his thoughts with greater visual impact. “Decorative and superficial elements become less important then,” he notes. Amongst his works, you can find ghost-like characters exploring dream-like landscapes, the color blue adding an additional layer of mystique.

“Art creates a distancing effect that allows the artist to express his own ideas to an audience in a peaceful manner,” reflected Lucbert. Based between Berlin and Paris, he’s also a member of the artist collective, The Ensaders, and participates regularly in performances and exhibitions. He has also collaborated with publications and brands like The New York Times, Hermès, and Starbucks.

With his more personal work, inspiration can be found in dreams, geometrical patterns, and other creators and writers. “I admire also children books artists like Tomy Ungerer and also comic books artists like François Schuiten and Benoît Peeters,” he notes. “Their wonderful comic book La Tour was one of my biggest influences as a child.”

We recommend you follow his Instagram page.

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50 Shades of Blue: Laxmi Hussain’s Paintings https://mobispirit.com/50-shades-of-blue-laxmi-hussains-paintings/ Mon, 17 Feb 2020 09:19:00 +0000 https://mobispirit.com/?p=21621 Scrolling through Laxmi Hussain’s Instagram page, one thing is clearly evident: her fondness of the color blue (but don’t call it an obsession). Known for her simple, but elegant, style of painting, her work often seems incomplete—a bird reduced to an outline or a face with an absent feature. This incompleteness is deliberate, obliging her […]

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Scrolling through Laxmi Hussain’s Instagram page, one thing is clearly evident: her fondness of the color blue (but don’t call it an obsession). Known for her simple, but elegant, style of painting, her work often seems incomplete—a bird reduced to an outline or a face with an absent feature.

This incompleteness is deliberate, obliging her viewers to pause and engage with the artwork, filling in the absences themselves rather than dismissing it and moving on. It also adds to a sense of openness to her creations, which added to her use of blue, makes for a calming, even inviting, effect.

With thousands of followers on Instagram and exhibitions in galleries and art events around London, Hussain has also appealed to a variety of commercial clients and individuals. Working in several different media, she admits to being driven by experimentation, constantly exploring new techniques and searching for the shapes and subjects they express best. 

As such, inspiration comes easy for her, sought out from the mundanities of everyday life: patterns found in home interiors, natural shapes found outside, and geometric, structured shapes, taken from architecture. Here are some of her more striking pieces.

View this post on Instagram

Dear Ma, I’ve been trying to think about the things I might have missed. Things I might have said to you, embraces I might have missed, a smile I should have given, a touch I could have spared. In truth, I know you’d never think I missed anything, you are so selfless, you loved everything about us, even your moments of upset or anger were things we giggled about after the moment had passed. Waking up is the hardest, although I’ve barely slept since you left us, I wake with a heavy heart, trying to remember something about you. My thoughts are so vivid because that’s how much you loved us, I can’t forget a single thing. Your softness, your beautiful laugh, how when you talked Tagalog or Ilocano it was like hearing happiness, if that’s possible. I miss how it felt to know you were coming home, how often I would wait for you, or get up when you got home to greet you, just because I had to see you. It’s hard to keep this all inside and keep moving, to let time take us feels like I move away from you, from our last touch, our last kiss, our last embrace. I miss you more than I ever thought possible and I keep waiting to wake from this terrible dream, but I can’t and all I want is to sit by your side watching stupid crime-fiction dramas and drinking a good cup of tea. Most of all I miss how it felt like you would sing my name, everytime you called me. I love you ma. #TeresitaDoriaNicolas

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