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]]>Using mainly gouache and colored pencils, Genualdo tends to stick to the same color stories, promoting a sense of breeziness and romanticism.
“I like to paint with similar hues and balance them with a contrasting tone to harmonize the picture,” she explained her color choices in an interview with Jackson’s Art.
“I try and think in terms of how colors can be a further vehicle to express the feelings of the characters in the picture, and also the importance the spaces that are not colored possess,” the artist went on.
Born in Italy, Genualdo admits that drawing has been a constant aspect of her life. A self-taught practice, she would go on study graphic design in Italy, before moving to London to further her creative exploration.
“When I moved to London I realized I didn’t want to work on a computer, I wanted to reconnect with making with my hands, express myself through illustration, so I applied for an illustration MA at the Camberwell College of Arts,” she recalls.
Having graduated from the Camberwell College of Arts in 2012 with an MA in Illustration, she is now based in East London, where she shares an apartment with her dog Kira (often featured on her Instagram page).
Her work is a breath of fresh air you’d want to add to your feed.
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]]>The same happened to a 22-years-old Ulyana who was studying to become a diplomat. However, the universe had some other plans for her. Now she is a full-time artist living and working in a small town called Volgograd in Russia.
“After some time, I found myself in international relations and dreamed of becoming a diplomat, but I later realized that art is the only thing that makes me happy and satisfies my soul,” she shared on Bored Panda. “Now I’ve decided that I want to dedicate my whole life to this and become a professional artist.”
Her artistic journey began when she was only a little girl, and she’s been drawing for as long as she can remember. Her favorite things to depict are portraits of both famous and everyday people. To create her artwork, she works with watercolors and colored pencils.
“My paintings are the results of years of working on the skill of drawing. They all show people how I see them in my individual way. With my art, I want to inspire people to love themselves and their surroundings,” she added.
Scroll down and take a look at her work below. Don’t forget to support her work by following her on social media.
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]]>Sarah Rupp’s women portraits aren’t meant to be pleasing. Intentionally distorted, they underline the constant tension between beauty and strangeness, traditional beauty and untraditional beauty.
The images themselves are created as a sort of mish-mash—a mix of collage art and painting—with a special interest in the female gaze. “I am always drawn to faces, and I am most captivated by the gaze,” explained Rupp in an interview with Art of Choice. “I try to depict a strong female gaze very often in my work.”
According to Rupp, there is a lot of mystery and vulnerability in the eyes, and more specifically—the gaze. “It creates a dialogue between the viewer and subject, even a connection, and that’s important to me,” she notes. It also stands to highlight the importance of both physical and psychological aspects of her portraits, drawing the viewer closer to her subjects.
“I’ve depicted the female figure since I started painting, even before school,” recalled Rupp. “I’ve never had the desire to paint anything else.” Scroll down to see some of her work.
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This painting was really fun to make. For some reason the whole process spontaneous and playful. Like playing with colors. Fun is fun. . . . . . #oilportrait #contemporaryportrait #oilpainting #paintingprocess #contemporaryart #contemporarypainting“While my work is anchored in representation, I try to not only focus on depicting the details of my subject but also try to capture the emotion—the essence of it,” the artist told This is Colossal. “There is a moment when I look at the painting and feel the emotion is there. This is the moment to step aside and realize the painting is finished.”
Grochulska studied design in Warsaw, Poland. She currently lives in Virginia and her work has been shown in many galleries across the U.S. and abroad. Her work has been published in many magazines and won her several awards. Scroll down to see it and follow her on Instagram for more.
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“Art is life,” said the Bahamian-Canadian artist in an interview with Jung Katz, adding that both her parents are artists. “Art is my breath, my escape, my happy place,” she gushed. “Art is my own safe haven in a hectic world. It’s where I go to hide from it all, and is also where I go to enjoy it all.”
With artistic talent clearly running through her veins, King never took to formal training but rather taught herself the basics from scratch. “I’m sure you can learn a ton from art school, but it depends on what you want to take from art, and where you want to go with it that should determine whether or not it’s for you,” she explains.
“For me, I couldn’t imagine being ‘taught’ art. It’s one of the only free things in this world and I’ve personally gained so much from having the artistic process be 100% my own journey, untainted from outside influence.”
“Whether I make it big, or die a nobody, I spent my life doing what I loved, and I didn’t need student debt to make that possible,” adds King. But of course, she need not worry about “making it” in the industry. Having won several awards, her work is found in both private and public collections including the MET’s publication collection.
Here are some highlights from her Instagram page.
This one is taking forever. 
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]]>“I set up About Face Illustration when my daughter was about five months old,” she shared with the Printed blog. “Sadly, I didn’t know much about marketing at the time, but I was on Instagram and I was following some other mums. One day, I noticed that one of the mums I followed was looking for an illustrator to paint her and her son, so I volunteered.” 500 portraits later, there’s no stopping her now.
Though her portraits rely on references, Kwietniewska admits that most of her work actually comes from within. But she’s also equally inspired by the world around her. “I am easily inspired,” she says, “I recently went to the BP Portrait Awards and all I wanted to do was go home and paint. I also love literature. I adore Nabokov’s Lolita, which I had the pleasure to paint recently. Also, I paint quite a lot from my experience.”
Take a look at some of her work in the gallery below.
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#martinejohanna #painting #acrylic #red #art“Most of the characters are not airbrush perfect or standard but the color palette makes you feel that they are perfect, so any dark circles under the eyes or intense expressions do not feel negative,” she further explains.
Both personal and impersonal, her paintings are the products of dreams, personal experiences and personality conflicts between the authentic self, taught mannerism, and projected morality. It’s the kind of artwork that, though intimate and personal, touches on universal experiences. As such, her work, admits Johanna, strikes a chord with most viewers.
“Whatever the viewer feels I feel is completely up to them,” she says. “A lot of people feel a connection to these paintings and see something of themselves in them. And it is women and men that feel that connection.”
Born and raised in Gelderland, the Netherlands, Johanna has received both her Bachelor’s degree and her Master’s degree from ArtEZ, the Academy of Fine Arts in Arnhem; and her work has been exhibited in multiple solo shows in the Netherlands, Europe, and the United States.
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]]>Using the found paper maps as his canvas, Fairburn is interested in the way in which each completed map behaves more like a portrait when viewed from further away—much like the way in which the shapes of countries and continents can only fully be understood from afar.
“I’ll either source my maps from charity shops or old book shops – we have lots of both here in the UK,” relayed Fairburn in an interview with yatzer. “If I’m working on a specific commission I’ll usually source a map on the internet to make the most suitable choice, in terms of the location. When considering a map to work on, I look at the patterns, orientation, and other characteristics – I usually find that the more ‘cluttered’ maps offer the most scope.”
According to Fairburn, his aim isn’t to work against the map, but rather take note from it, preserving the functionality of each map by feeding the composition. To accomplish this, he often spends hours studying each map before actually beginning the work itself. It’s a complicated process, which takes time and patience. But, the results are well worth it.
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]]>Born in Brighton in 1982, Bremer studied painting at Wimbledon College of Art in London and is a recipient of the DeLazlo Foundation Award for his portraiture from the Royal Society of Portrait Painters. But though he started out being a painter, after stumbling across collage art, his creative journey changed course. “I ended up doing collage out of circumstance,” he admits.
The circumstance being: he looked for a way of staying creative at home without destroying his house with paint. “I had a pile of old magazines so I began cutting them up,” he recalls. “Since then they have been growing larger and more experimental, getting freer with the knife each time and trying to treat them in my mind as paintings or drawings.”
His artistic process now is a bit of a hybrid between portraiture, painting, and collage art. “The pictures work on the first level as a portrait, but then you can move closer to explore and read the information within it,” he says.
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]]>“My purpose in painting these is to arrive at a perfect tension between a human presence and absence,” the artist shared on My Modern Met. “The paintings are meant to be both a terrain and a sentience, or what we feel is alive or human in a person. The scale allows this tension as the viewer’s proximity to the piece transforms their experience of it.”
To achieve the tactile effect Goodson uses various mediums, like pencils, acrylic paint, caulking gun, brushes, and, occasionally, his hands. He shares images of his work on his Instagram account where he has attracted almost 18,000 followers and receives hundreds of likes on each post.
If you are curious to see some of his masterpieces, check out the gallery below and follow him on Instagram for more.
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