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Metamorphic Style Paintings by Octavio Ocampo

Rick — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 14:39:17 +0000

Artist Octavio Ocampo was born in Celaya, Guanajuato, Mexico. He was educated at the Fine Art Institute, Mexico City and the San Francisco Art Institute. He works primarily in the metamorphic style – using a technique of superimposing and juxtaposing realistic and figurative details within the images that he creates. Ocampo now works and resides in Tepoztlan, north of Mexico City.

Beautiful Sketches by Salma Ashraf

Rick — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 03:01:08 +0000

Salma Ashraf is a creative artist from East London, she shows her artistic talent from early ages. Salma’s sketch gives the portrait a rich color, high contrast, detailed, realistic representation of the physical characteristics.

Underwater Paintings by Eric Zener

Rubi — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 13:57:39 +0000

Artist Eric Zener was born in Astoria, Ore., in 1966,whose paintings has been exhibited internationally in Australia, Japan and Spain and is included in numerous corporate, private, and museum collections. His Underwater paintings look stunning and highly creative.

Beautiful Paintings by Andrew Atroshenko

Rubi — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 14:35:48 +0000

Andrew Atroshenko is a famous Russian artist. Born in 1965 in the City of Pokrovsk, Russia, Atroshenko became part of a gifted child program at the Children’s Art School there, and was later accepted at the St. Petersburg Academy of Art, one of the world’s most prestigious art schools. Andrew spent the entire year in the U.S. Andrew has worked with dealers from Western Europe and the US, exhibiting and selling his paintings in galleries in Carmel, Scottsdale, Palm Desert, Las Vegas, Hawaii and Salem, Oregon.

20 Mind-Blowing Photorealistic Artworks

Rick — Wed, 10 Aug 2011 14:41:42 +0000

Here is a selection of photo realistic artworks for your inspiration. These artists are so talented to create artworks so realistic that they look like the original pictures.

Artist: Alyssa Monk

Artist: Dan Witz

Artist: Halim Ghodbane

Artist: Jeremy Geddas

Artist: Rob Hefferan

Artist: Wayne Forrest

Negative Space Art By Tang Yau Hoong

Rick — Thu, 28 Jul 2011 05:20:04 +0000

In art, Negative space means, the space around and between the subject(s) of an image. Negative space may be most evident when the space around a subject, and not the subject itself, forms an interesting or artistically relevant shape, and such space is occasionally used to artistic effect as the “real” subject of an image. In this post we present some of outstanding Negative Space Artworks by Tang Yau Hoong, he is a very talented graphic artist, designer, and illustrator from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

Beware of Those Hands

Coexistence

Day vs. Night

Eco-Friendly

Eye on the City

In Flying Colours

In Nostalgic Mood

Lost Memory

Moustacheville

Sky Aperture

The Haunting Hand

Paintings by Charlotte Harris

Rick — Tue, 19 Jul 2011 14:22:50 +0000

Charlotte Harris is a well-known portrait artist who was born in Ashford, and currently in Folkestone. At the age of 21, she won the BP Portrait Award in 2003 with a painting of her grandmother. Have a look on these amazing painting by Harris.

Beautiful Oil Paintings by Laurie Masters

Rick — Tue, 05 Jul 2011 05:21:30 +0000

Artist Laurie Masters was born in Peterborough, Ontario, May 4, 1976. In her school days, she picked up a paint brush and started to paint. Since then, Laurie has not stopped painting. The subject matter of her paintings include mostly portraits of artists in other mediums, such as musicians and actors, encompassing her love of both music and film, and are interpretations of existing photographs. Laurie started out painting in acrylics, but after discovering the beauty and diversity of oil, she decided to concentrate her painting to oil on canvas. Laurie excels in painting in vibrant colour, but also enjoys painting black and white portraits. She also incorporates texture into her paintings through palette knives or the use of textured paper to achieve the desired effect.

The Paintings of Alan Macdonald

Rubi — Fri, 13 May 2011 13:40:43 +0000

Alan Macdonald is a well known artist based in Carnoustie, Scotland. His portraits populate the world of 17th century oil paining with contemporary brands. He creates portraits featuring cardinals, noblemen and classical beauties, but all with a modern twist. Macdonald gives us no answers, but the questions he raises about the search for faith and identity in a difficult modern world touch a nerve, and in the faces of his pilgrims, we recognize ourselves.

Paintings by Oskar Kokoschka

Rick — Sun, 10 Apr 2011 06:26:31 +0000

Austrian artist Oskar Kokoschka (1 March 1886 – 22 February 1980) was best known for his intense expressionistic portraits and landscapes.His early career was marked by portraits of Viennese celebrities, painted in a nervously animated style. He served in the Austrian army in World War I and was wounded. At the hospital, the doctors decided that he was mentally unstable. Nevertheless, he continued to develop his career as an artist, traveling across Europe and painting the landscape.Here we present some of his evergreen paintings.