Realistic Paintings that Portray Intense Expressions

Lovely paintings with an intense emotional tone.

TV Cartoon Characters on Body Painting

An artist that applies paint on herself, to recreate some of the most beloved cartoon characters, of the present and the past.

Architectural People Drawings

Australian Artist Sean Edward Whelan creates these Architectural People.  He now lives and works in Japan and is inspired by the rapidity with which the contemporary culture is changing there.  We were really impressed with the way that he manages to retain the human form using an amalgamation of buildings and even more by the the different poses he creates for his building mannequins.  Magnificent for any artist leaning how to portray and experiment with movement in their figures. The Coloured images are (acrylic and sumi ink on wood mounted paper) the Black and White are (pencil on paper).

Hyper-Realistic Emotions in a Drawings

Italian Artist DiegoKoi starts his career with tattoo artwork, with a particular passion for Japanese art.  He is now captivated with the use of dark and light in his Pencil Drawings, giving them an immense amount of shading gradients to mimic the real world, which is what makes them so realistic and life like.  He also likes to capture the feelings behind the people he recreates on paper.  As you can see from the titles of his drawings, he is trying to portray the raw emotions felt by the population in these difficult times.  Exceptional Artists like him are making it more and more difficult for us to differentiate their work from photographs.  Please let us know DiegoKoi's speaks to you in any way, at the bottom in the comment page.  To get the best effect, once in the article you can enlarge the image by pressing it (not the first one). Enjoy...

Surreal Art and Optical Illusion Paintings

Romanian Artist Mihai Cristeis, is one of those artists, that puts a lot of thought into his painting, but especially the composition.  His art can be seen as a surreal base with a bit of optical illusion sprinkled about.  Not all painting have a built in optical illusion but, all of the paintings, play on the double meaning of the scene they portray.  Help comes from Cristeis, in the form of titles, that said, surreal paintings are often open to more than one interpretation and these are no exception.  See if you can find a more personal and better fitting meaning for you...

Light and Airy House in Japanese Architecture

A home that gives out a warm feeling, by just looking at the pictures.

Watercolor Paintings that Blend in the Background

Norwegian Engineering student Andreas Lie, lives in a place that is surrounded by animals and nature.  The beautiful sceneries he is used to seeing on a daily basis, help inspire his artwork.  He is mostly known for his photographic double exposures, with the his two fixed cardinal points, nature and animals.  We have chosen to portray his watercolor project, where each image, blends with the background, making it difficult to distinguish at small scale.  To see it more clearly, press the images to enlarge them (not the first one).

Complex Surreal Paintings that make you Think

This world has too much Reality, a bit of Surrealism to rebalance the equation.

Enchanting Pairs of Pencil Portraits

Pencil portrait drawings in pairs.

Animal Drawings Steeped in Symbolism and Surrealism

These are not your typical animal portraits, find our more in the post.

Photographs, that look like Pastel Colored Illustrations

Photographer and Visual Artist Ben Thomas, brings us something different, last week we had a look at Photographs that look like Oil Paintings "Photographs in the Rain that look like Oil Paintings", today we are going to have a look at photographs that look like Illustrations.  One of Thomas' latest projects, Chroma, focuses on cities and urban areas, with mostly pastel colours, that give the impression of a flat stylised view like the ones Illustrations portray.  Wonderful out of the box thinking when it comes to taking photographs.

Realistic Drawings and Paintings that Hide an Extensive Process

Even though these paintings and drawings, look like photographs, they seek to add more to the image, more than the reality of the model.

Amazing Expressions in Scratchboard Animal Portraits

Melissa Helene describes herself as a Scratchboard & Graphite Artist, Photographer, Wildlife and Nature Enthusiast.  We also use her words to describe how the Scratchboard works: "Scratchboard is a subtractive medium that uses a variety of abrasive tools to scratch away the outer black layer of the board to reveal the white layer beneath.  Scratches are placed in layers to obtain the desired values of gray and white."  Helene really manages to capture the minute details, that allow her to portray perfectly, the expressions of the animals she is depicting.  You know when you are looking at a portrait if the artists has not been able to capture it and these are perfect.  Enjoy...

Diary Portraits and Sketchbook Drawings

A mixture of diary and sketchbook drawings.

No Need to adjust your Screen, Paintings out of Focus

Amazingly different subject matter for unique paintings.

Heritage and Water Playing a Part in Detailed Ink Drawings

Detailed illustrations that make you appreciate the this artist's fine art.