Magical paintings by Barcelona based street artists Andrea Michaelsson and Ilia Mayer aka Btoy. For years, Btoy have been adding life to the influential Catalan street art scene, and more recently into a grimy tunnel at the first Cans Festival in London.
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Fantastic illustration by James Jean (born 1979).
James Jean is a Taiwanese-American award winning artist and illustrator living in Los Angeles. His clients include Time Magazine, The New York Times, Rolling Stone, Spin, ESPN, Atlantic Records, Target, Playboy, Knopf, Prada among others.
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Hot images by New Zealand based illustrator, also a photographer, Kelly Thompson. These are easy art, very beautiful drawings.
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Using many diverse elements such as Japanese pop culture and art history, to science fiction, Chinese propaganda posters, and real life, Chris Scarborough creates work that explores the grey areas that form when cultural and contextual boundaries erode and cross paths.
Working in photography and drawing, Scarborough’s meticulously detailed images of people who have been manipulated according to the tropes of Japanese anime is an exploration of the cultural concepts and impositions of cuteness, beauty and perfection.
Danielle de Picciotto is an american artist living in Berlin, Germany. She works as a painter, illustrator, filmaker and musician.
Danielle de Picciotto beckons us irresistibly, into the lands of whimsy that flow with such soulful precision from her pen. Anything – the dissonant, the miraculous, the doomed – is possible here, but not without a price. This is the stuff of fairytales from the old school; a happy ending is by no means a given.
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Eliot Greenwald is a painter, illustrator, and overall expert in the fine nature of graphite on wood. Eliot has been developing his unique style, and pursuing the boundaries of storytelling through a delicate balance of humor, minimalism, and the grotesque.
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Amazing drawings from Morgan Blair’s sketchbook.
Morgan Blair is a freelance illustrator, fine artist, and desperado. She is a recent graduate of Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), now living in Brooklyn, New York and continuing to advance her interest in trees, legos and excellent music. Her ambitions for the present and future include adventure, survival, seeing magma and a real armadillo up close, and making art forever.
Ion Birch (b. 1971 in New York, NY) is a reclusive artist who lives in Brooklyn, NY.
Birch is best known for his graphite on paper works which incorporate phallic symbols and other erotic imagery with his signature style of indirect self-portraiture.
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Charlotte Mann is a London based artist with a fresh and distinct style. Using a strict minimalist black and white palette, Mann creates detailed, life sized drawings depicting the simple complexities of everyday life. Her installations also use layers of materials such as glass and acetate to give even more depth to these storybook-esque interpretations of the world.
This is b Store London window space by Charlotte Mann.
Black and white marker pen on glass, acetate and Colorama paper.
To coincide with the Peter Jensen Tina collecton on sale in store, she created this installation.
Check out her other drawings. All amazing!
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Your microphone is your pen, vioce is the ink.
Ze Frank made a little flash drawing tool. You don’t need a mouse but a microphone if you want to draw. A low volume tone will make the line curve counterclockwise, a medium will let it run straight and a high volume will turn the line to the right… Somehow he manged to draw this arty face and figure. You can try it out for yourself here.
I came across this image Alice Liddle. I guess this is one of Trevor Brown’s latest paintings. Unlike most of his art, this piece is so calm and elegant. There’s no paraphilias, no blood and no violence. But the eyeball flowers…
If you never heard of Trevor Brown, here is his website.
Very strange drawings by vivaUltra. As he said, these may be “ghosts and shadows on walls”.
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