Miss Tigri is a talented French painter, illustrator and designer. Her fabulous paintings of languid women have influences of Art Nouveau artists, like Alfons Mucha and Gustav Klimt, expressionist painter Egon Schiele, French comics illustrators, Milo Manara, stylists, Tim Burton and Hayao Miyazaki. (via the NSFW Erotismo Gráfico)
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Animals are always a great inspiration to artists. Heather Houghton knows that and creates the most adorable paintings and illustrations with them. On her portfolio there are several super coloured and cute paintings with dogs, some with cats and even horses. I had a tough mission trying to pick just one picture. I almost chose a dog with candies and this lovely Alice in Wonderland, however, I was captivated by the giant pink imaginary friend from the illustration above. It's a pity I never had one. More of her works on deviantART.
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The site of Doktor A is full of his fantastic creations: pretty paintings of little men with pointy hats, paintings and illustrations and cute (odd) little fellows called Poddies, dark sculptures of fairies, clowns and creatures, digital illustrations of aliens and bizarre characters, and fantastic toys.
He designed several models of toys: little monsters, strange animals and kind of steampunk creations.They are a cross between the characters of vintage sci-fi pulp books, elements of new steampunk creations and something from a Jules Verne's book. It's tough to describe them, but that's the image which come to my mind the first time I saw the Professor Whistlecraft’s astounding Incendiary Automaton. (via Custom Toy Lab)
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Jenny Bird Alcantara recreates, through her paintings, the dark side of fairy tales. Her whimsical paintings and inks reminds me a cross between Ray Caesar, Mark Ryden and the Grimm's Fairy Tales with influences of surrealism: marvellous and creepy. Her colourful universe full of details is populated by girls with big eyes, fabulous animals and symbols. The heart (an the broken heart) and all it's meanings is a constant in her works.
She also have a very personal work of hand unique made dolls. They aren't dolls for little girls; they are dark dolls, mysterious dolls, dolls with sad eyes. The "Bleeding Heart Gang" series of dolls is a good example: the name talks for itself. Take a look at Sleep, from that series: the dolls reminds me sleepwalking Cesare.
Annie Owens, from Hi Fructose Magazine, wrote about Alcantara's dolls at the magazine's premier issue:
Their hand painted faces with large expressive eyes and small rosebud mouths each reflect a different personality, all painstakingly rendered in careful detail. Some of the dolls have multiple limbs, be they of the spider, human or furry woodland creature variety, while their more unfortunate cousins have only two arms and two legs. [...] Some come with poems, some come with detachable parts and appendages but each bear the evidence of a loving hand and Jenny's definitive style.
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Illuminating the Renaissance The Triumph of Flemish Manuscript Painting in Europe.
Featuring more than 130 works of art, this exhibition focuses on the finest and most ambitiously illuminated books produced in Flanders (parts of present day Belgium and France) between 1470 and 1560. During this period, illuminators radically transformed the appearance of the illustrated page, introducing the mastery of light, texture, and space achieved by the finest panel painters of the day.
The virtual exhibition shows only 19 of those work, that can be zoomed and explored. Visit also The Making of a Medieval Book and Picturing the Natural World from the Getty Museum.
More illuminations: Bestiaire du Moyen Âge, Enluminures : base de données, The Medieval Bestiary, The illuminated Middle Ages, Books of Hours, Bibi's box: The Aberdeen Bestiary and Gode Cookery.
Art Face Off is a new social site for artists upload their works describing and adding tags, and it's also a competition, where the visitors vote for the best of two works. Winners move on to the next level of competition, and final prize is $1000US to the overall winner of each general media, a spot in the Athena Awards collective exhibition, and an award at the ceremony.
The experience of chose between a picture and a drawing can be strange. You can select to see works of the same support. For me it's a place to discover new artists and explore beautiful new images. BTW, some of the works you will see aren't safe for work. (via Techcrunch)
The Czech born artist Guido Daniele makes wonderful body paint works. Since 1986 he has been working and improving his personal usage of airbrush: he paints back-stages in different sizes (the biggest ones can be 400 square metres) for artistic and advertising pictures, tv commercials and tv programmes. His bodypaint creations of animals using hands are incredible. BTW, his portfolio contains some NSFW pictures. (via Digg)
More body paint posts: Japan Body Painting Museum, Kim Joon, Heidi Klum by Joanne Gair and Marco Guerra & Yasmina Alaoui.
Surrounded by books, the Canadian artist Nicholas Di Genova creates his fantastic "mutant" animals illustrations using ink and watercolour on paper. Sometimes those creatures are formed by two animals parts, other times by parts of animals and machines. Maybe is just my impression, but there is something that reminds me H. R. Giger on his works. More of his paintings here. (via blog aeiou)
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There is something bizarre and magical at the paintings of Timur Tsaku that attracted me. This artist from Uzbekistan started four years ago a series of 14 paintings:
It is a highly personal series and portrays what is most meaningful to him – his daughter, depicted from the ages of 4 to 9, together with the dog embodied and humanized as ‘Haiya Kdusha’, or Holy Being.
All images of Child and Haiya Kdusha are captured in a moment of strong wind against a barren landscape – the Child and the Holy Being – evoking, in some meaning, an essence of defenseless personae.
Many dogs and this little furry fellow too. (via traveling with the ghost)
From the APOD: The Starry Night by Vincent van Gogh painted 1889. This painting is wonderful and now I have a good excuse to post it.
The painting Starry Night is one of the most famous icons of the night sky ever created. The scene was painted by Vincent van Gogh in southern France in 1889. The swirling style of Starry Night appears, to many, to make the night sky come alive. Although van Gogh frequently portrayed real settings in his paintings, art historians do not agree on precisely what stars and planets are being depicted in Starry Night.
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Shary Boyle makes drawing with watercolours, paintings, illustrations, projections and incredible mutating sculptures of fine porcelain lace-draping with china paint. After saw her sculptures of Siamese sisters, a decapitated woman carrying her own head and the spider-woman above I knew that I have to post about it. (via Art MoCo)
The Dutch painter and draughtsman Albert Eckhout came to Brazil in the service of Count Maurice of Nassau, the Governor-General of Dutch Brazil, where he spent seven years (1637-1644).
During the period Eckhout spent in the Northeast of Brazil, he worked intensively on documenting its fauna and flora, as well as on painting human types. His stay in Brazil is thus considered the principal phase of his work, during which he produced some 400 drawings and sketches in oil that were presented by Nassau to Friedrich Wilhelm, the Elector of Brandenburg,1 in 1652, and brought together by Christian Mentzel, between 1660 and 1664, in the volumes Theatri Rerum Naturalium Brasiliae and Miscellanea Cleyeri, that are today in the collection of the Biblioteka Jagiellonska, in Cracow, Poland. He also produced 26 canvases in oil that were presented to Frederik III (1609 - 1670), King of Denmark, in 1654, of which 24 have been preserved in the Ethnography Department of the Nationalmuseet [National Museum of Denmark] in Copenhagen. Albert Eckhout returned to Holland in May 1644, settling in Groningen.
The National Danish Museum has a special site to Albert Eckhout with his biography, an introduction to the Brazilian history and a gallery with 24 of his Brazilian paitings. The Wikimedia has 6 images of his paitings, this page has 11 images of his birds paintings. And this is the image of the special edition of stamps of the Brazilian post office, Correios, released in 2002.
Eckout em português: Wikipedia e Itaú Cultural que além da biografia tem reproduções das imagens, mas infelizmente com baixa qualidade.
Lisa Petrucci is obsessed with pin-ups and pop culture. Her fabulous paintings reflect many of her various interests - from collecting sleazy vintage men's magazines and watching sexploitation cinema from the 50's & 60's; to the toys, dolls, television shows, comics and collectibles from my childhood.
The artist Tommy Kane started his career making illustrations for a newspaper. Now he works with diverse materials and supports. Among his works there are 3-D objects, print ads, commercials, paintings, illustrations, drawings and a great work of mixed media with cardboard and full of pop culture references. He also has a blog.
The paintings of Andrew Brandou show cute animals in bizarre situations, almost disturbing: a squirrel planning to explode the house, a pig having a tattoo, bunnies burning a house, or burning the city. I don't know how to define his work, just know that it is wonderful. His works made with ink and watercolour on paper with dressing animals imitating old engravings for biology books are great too.
The awesome kinetic sculptures of Duane Flatmo look like the vehicles of Wacky Race. He also makes colourful nice paintings and sculptures. His sculptures were created from scrap metal parts found at various junkyards and wrecking yards proving one more time that he has a fantastic imagination.
The artist Jere Smith has an eclectic background in art including graphic design, editorial illustration, the teaching of art, curating same, various gallery affiliations, and organizing many theme-based art events. Among has influences there are artists like Michaelangelo, Magritte, Max Ersnt, Marcel Duchamp, illustrators like Maxfield Parrish, Norman Rockwell and Milton Glaser, and the early comics and cartoons.
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The Lafayette College Special Collections & College Archives presents Howard Chandler Christy Papers, 1873-2001.
The Howard Chandler Christy Papers (1873-2001) document the personal life and artistic career of Christy, noted American illustrator and painter. While a photograph of Christy’s birthplace dating 1873 is the earliest item found in the papers, the bulk of the material dates from ca. 1915-1952 and pertains to Christy’s career as an illustrator, portraitist, poster and program artist, and painter of large-scale historic murals. Other topics of interest throughout the papers include the social lives of Christy and his second wife, Nancy Palmer Christy; their travels across the United States and abroad; and their patriotic, humanitarian, and philanthropic efforts for various organizations.
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