Brazilian artist Lucas Chimello Simões creates these cut-outs by stacking dozens of layers of the same photo and then cut some parts out.
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Hope Gangloff Illustration
New York-based artist Hope Gangloff creates vibrant and realistic portraits to share her view of modern American life. She works mostly with pen and ink on paper, using as a reference photographs she takes of her friends.
Crayon and Pencil Sculptures by Diem Chau
Vietnamese artist Diem Chau creates unique crayon and pencil sculptures by carving them very carefully. An art that requires patience, delicacy and a sharp eye for details.
Paula Bonet Illustrations
Valencia based artist Paula Bonet creates these beautiful illustrations by using pen, watercolours and chinese ink, leaving a eye-catching result in each of her works.
Colourful City Portraits by Tim Jarosz
Chicago based photographer Tim Jarosz creates fine art prints of the city, its attractive urban area and its social vibrancy. You can purchase his artwork from his shop here.
Andy Diaz Hope – Painting with Pills
San Francisco based artist Andy Diaz Hope transfers photographs onto elaborate grids of gel caplets.
“Andy Diaz Hope deconstructs his own digital photographs and painstakingly reassembles the original image in a mosaic of gelatin pill capsules, each containing small portions from several original prints. As a continuation of his Morning After Portraits series, Diaz Hope has turned his lens on the hidden landscapes of drug culture—from high school hideaways to psychiatric institutions.”
Illustrations by Marynn
Nantes, France based illustrator Marynn, creates beautiful pieces with a simple but colourful style by using black and white pencil with a touch of colour.
She says “ It always begins from an obsession, a musical or sentimental one (need tissues…), I’m that kind of girl who listens to the same song over and over as I draw (I have no television). I generally find the message first and then compose according to it. There’s often a second meaning to my illustrations, my closest people generally know what it is about.”
Art by Carolina Rodriguez Fuenmayor
Colombian based artist Carolina Rodriguez Fuenmayor creates very moving and delicate illustrations using a wide colour palette with both warm and cold colours. She says “I’m currently studying visual arts, even though I do not believe in the idea of professionalism.”
Photography by Hans Silvester
German photographer Hans Silvester documents the extraordinary body painting of the Surma and Mursi peoples of the Omo Valley in southern Ethiopia, Kenya and Sudan.
“The Surma and Mursi tribes are body painters. They paint their bodies with natural pigments made from the earth. They paint themselves and each other in a tradition that has remained unchanged for millenia. They use their bodies as canvases, painting their skin with pigments made from powdered volcanic rock and adorning themselves with materials obtained from flowers, leaves, grasses, shells and animal horns.”
Pencil Sculptures by Jennifer Maestre
Massachusetts-based artist Jennifer Maestre creates remarkable sculptures by using brightly coloured pencils and inspired by the vulnerability of sea urchins. She runs a thread through the center sewing them together to create shapes that maintain the fragility of the ocean creatures.
Art by Oriol Angrill Jordà
Mallorca-based artist Oriol Angrill Jordà creates interesting illustrations with unique colour and texture combinations by using techniques like pastel, watercolours, colored pencil, white pencil on black canson paper, acrylics, graphite or charcoal.
He says, “I did not start like most of the artists I’ve met. As I’ve been listening, a majority of them had been enthusiastic about Art, almost since they were born, as a native desire to create or express themself. Unfortunately, it wasn’t like that to me. It was like a research of what I did better. I really had no interest in drawing or art culture. I completely unknew there were people living and working on Art. Despite my childish ignorance, I had already an easily skill to draw or rather that, a facillity to represent what I saw on paper.”
Illustrations by Denise Nestor
Dublin based graphic designer/illustrator Denise Nestor creates very sensitive and beautifully natural illustrations.
Photo Manipulations by Erik Johansson
Erik Johansson is a young talented artist from Sweden and is currently living in Berlin. Johansson creates remarkable images by digitally modifying photographs that he took himself.
He says “I work mostly with personal- and commissioned projects. For me photography is just a way to collect material to realize the ideas in my mind. I get inspired by things around me in my daily life and all kinds of things I see. Every new project is a new challenge and my goal is to realize them as realistic as possible.”
Skin Illustrations by Emma Hack
Adelaide-based artist, Emma Hack is a ‘body artist’. Her canvas of choice is the human body and by using wallpaper designed by florence broadhurst, hack paints models to match, making them disappear into the wall.
“Emma’s collaboration on Gotye‘s ‘Somebody That I Used To Know‘ has seen her profile skyrocket with the single in UK, Europe and US charts and over 350 million hits on YouTube.”
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