Art/21 Jul 2014
Quint Buchholz Imagines a Surreal World of Books
Books become more than just objects to read in these surreal illustrations by Quint Buchholz. I think the artist’s sense of magical…
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Artist profiles and studio dispatches from the Arthaus archive — painting, illustration and mixed media, written about the work itself.
Art/17 Jul 2014
Funny Renaissance Art GIFs by James Kerr
These animated GIFs are filled with crude humour and anachronistic imagery. Collage artist James Kerr, also known as Scorpion Dagger, brings the…
Art/11 Jul 2014
Martin Krusche’s Ink Drawings of “The Poor”
This series of illustrations by Martin Krusche is called The Poor, and it shows several homeless and destitute people, among the backdrop…
Art/9 Jul 2014
Highly Realistic Paintings of Trash by Tom Pfannerstill
I was astounded by the extreme realism of these paintings by Tom Pfannerstill. Each of them shows a piece of trash, which…
Art/4 Jul 2014
Weird Digital Drawings by Ville Kallio
Ville Kallio‘s drawings are extremely strange. They are very gestural and the artist even refers to them as “doodles,” but they are…
Art/4 Jul 2014
Gelrev Ongbico Explores Nature in Illustrations
These gorgeous images by Gelrev Ongbico depict nature — particularly some of the conflicts between man and the environment. The artist creates…
Art/2 Jul 2014
Tiia Reijonen’s Eerily Beautiful Digital Paintings
Tiia Reijonen is a graphic design student at Aalto University, and is from Helsinki, Finland. These amazing digital paintings she produced are…
Art/1 Jul 2014
Cartoon Creatures Invade the City, in “Paris and the Unknown”
This collaborative series of animated GIF images is called Paris and the Unknown — with the “Paris” representing the black and white…
Art/27 Jun 2014
Face the Foliage: Justina Blakeney’s Flower Petal Portraits
These bright and luscious-looking portraits are made totally from plant materials. Individual leaves and petals form the women’s lips, eyelashes, and rosy…
Art/27 Jun 2014
Andrew Archer Illustrates How the World Might End
A giant monster squid crushes a skyscraper, an asteroid hurls toward the Earth, or a smog-like plague spreads through a crowded village:…
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