Vintage Photograph Murals

I did a post that was somewhat similar to this last week, but I found out about another artist that also creates large scale murals. Mohamed L’Ghacham paints large murals based on scenes from vintage family photographs and everyday objects. When I first saw his work, I really did get a nostalgic vibe that vintage…

Street Art

Melbourne based artist Kitt Bennet specializes in illustration and murals. His work explores topics of individuality, existence, and mysterious phenomena around us. Not only does he paint regular murals, he also paints ginormous murals on the ground that are best seen from a birds eye view. The scale of his work is outstanding. It almost…

RORSCHACH

Artist CJ Hendry creates hyper realistic colored pencil drawings of daubs of paint. She has an art show opening on April 10 displaying her Rorschach Test drawings in her signature style. Her images are incredibly precise and look just like paint, even though that is not her medium of choice. The exhibit as a whole…

Miniatures

I stumbled upon Kath Holden’s work recently. She makes miniatures. Kath Holden’s miniatures were featured in Ellen Evans’ short film “Life in Miniature”. Her work is different from the typical miniaturist because she creates miniatures of the present rather than ones of the past. Her work is very cool and realistic. Here is the link…

Alexy Prefontaine

Alexy Prefontaine is a photographer and digital artist. His art combines his photography and futuristic digital forms. His resulting hyper realistic images are very striking and pleasing to look at. His style is very distinct because of his vivid color use and hyper realistic digital art style. The world he creates in his art seems…

La Boulangerie

Over the break I had the privilege to travel to Paris with some friends. We visited all of the major tourist spots that we could in that week, but the one piece of art that stood out throughout the entire trip to me was the food, especially the pastries. We must have walked past 100…

Billy Porter at the Oscars

Even though I didn’t watch the Oscars on Saturday, I made a point to see who wore what to the ceremony. My favorite look of the night was Billy Porter in Christian Siriano. His outfit really challenged the unspoken Hollywood dress code by playing with masculinity and femininity. The garment was seamlessly made. It was…

Sara Andreasson

Sara Andreasson is a Swedish illustrator who uses vibrant color and contemporary graphics. Her illustrations may seem simple at first, the simplicity of her images add another layer of texture to her work. Her still and animated images almost pop off the page because of how stunning they are. Here is her website if you…

Matt Blease

Matt Blease is an English illustrator who has very distinct and playful style of design. His work first caught my eye because of the humor attached to it. But after looking through a lot of his work I was drawn to his juxtaposition of contemporary illustrations with modern humor.  And also his style is just…

Coleção

Brazilian artist Lucas Wakamatsu’s project “Coleção” is a project about different people’s stories and feelings. He took these stories and translated them into illustrations. Each illustration tells a story through vivid use of color and various use textures.  Overall his book of illustrations is very striking, and I encourage you to check them out.  Here…