Category: Art

Art/9 Jun 2017

Black & White Art Picks For Your Home

Decorating your home can involve tonnes of decision-making. A lot of that revolves around choosing your colour palette. But there is a…

Art/27 Nov 2014

Traditional Weaving Meets Digital Designs in Faig Ahmed’s Carpets

Rugs and carpets have long been an important part of Middle Eastern art and culture, from magic flying carpets in the Arabian…

Art/25 Nov 2014

Allan Otte’s Graphic Paintings of Landscapes and Accidents

These acrylic paintings by Allan Otte have a bold, graphical quality that seems to draw as much inspiration from the world of…

Art/20 Nov 2014

Spazuk: Painting Birds with Fire

The art of “Fire Painter” Steven Spazuk is beautiful as a finished work, but what I think is even more breathtaking is…

Art/14 Nov 2014

Great Art in Ugly Rooms

Displaying fantastic art works in a room should make the room more appealing … but sometimes it doesn’t work out as planned.…

Art/13 Nov 2014

Erik Olson’s Oil Paintings of Shattered, Abstract Faces

Painter Erik Olson has a strangely cool way of abstracting the human body in Architecture of the Face and his other portrait exhibitions. Some…

Art/7 Nov 2014

Realist Paintings of Fabled Characters and Creatures by Matthew Grabelsky

In the vein of the TV show Once Upon a Time or the graphic novel series Fables, Matthew Grabelsky‘s oil paintings show…

Art/31 Oct 2014

Maori Sakai’s Cute, Seasonal Animated GIFs

Japanese illustrator Maori Sakai has created a bunch of adorable animated GIFs with seasonal themes. The illustrations are vignettes in soft colours. I think they…

Art/23 Oct 2014

Nostalgic Marker Drawings of Cassettes by Hollis Brown Thornton

If you’re in the mood for a throwback to some outdated technology, or trying to explain to younger generations just what a…

Art/21 Oct 2014

Typewritten Portraits of Famous Authors

Brazilian artist Álvaro Franca pays homage to his favourite authors in a series of portraits created using just a typewriter. So far,…