Modern Grimm: Fairy Tales Updated by Björn Griesbach
Björn Griesbach gives us a cool, contemporary take on classic fairy tale characters in his illustration series Modern Grimm. Modern Grimm shows the…
Art
Hand-Painted Ants on Vintage Porcelain Plates by La Philie
Ants aren’t usually something you want to see crawling over your food, but that’s exactly what makes these plates so amusing to me. The…
Hyemi Jeong’s Drawings Incorporate Everyday Objects
These drawings by Hyemi Jeong are simple but awesome. Each uses a small found object as part of the design in a surprising way. …
Symbolist Illustrator William Thomas Horton
William Thomas Horton (1864-1919) is a classic black-and-white Symbolist illustrator in the style of Aubrey Beardsley — with whom Horton was friends. Horton’s…
Surreal Illustrations by Nader Sharaf
These surreal and quirky illustrations by Nader Sharaf play with scale in an interesting way, creating a magic world where regular-size and miniature people live side-by-side….
Satoru Imatake’s Ironic, Dystopian Look at Modern Society
Satoru Imatake‘s art combines digital and traditional media in a creative way. These mixed media works give an interesting and sometimes dystopian look at…
Yannick Bouchard’s Paintings of Humour, Horror, and Fantasy
These paintings and illustrations by Canadian artist Yannick Bouchard showcase a variety of subjects and styles, form the humorous to the macabre. Several of the…
A. L. Crego Animates Street Art in series of GIFs
The idea of combining street art and animated GIFs initially struck me as surprising, since one medium is strongly tied to the real world…
Rob Snow’s Humorous ‘Animal Behaviour’ Art Prints
These witty animal art prints by Rob Snow are visual twists on popular sayings. I like the intellectual humour in the Animal Behaviour series,…
Andrea Kowch’s Paintings of Surreal Rural Scenes
The acrylic paintings of Andrea Kowch are rural landscapes with a hint of surrealism or magical realism. Even though there’s nothing distinctly supernatural in…