Australian Fabric Designer – John Rodriquez
2021-08-28
John Rodriquez became well known for his textile designs in the early 1950’s. He introduced a unique Australian Style. Read More →
Humble history of the pencil
2021-07-24
I am feeling nostalgic for the humble pencil. There is a comfort and warm familiarity whenever I pick one up (rarely these days). Pencils are inexpensive, portable, simple to operate and the marks that they make are easy to erase. Unlike other writing tools, they do not run out of ink or skip.Read More →
Adult Colouring Books the new bestsellers
2021-06-06
Some of the best selling books online are adult colouring books. They are not like your typical children’s colouring books – which have huge illustrations and are not especially challenging to anybody who has hand-eye coordination and is over the age of 12. Read More →
“Dinotopia”: The Fantastical Art Of James Gurney
2021-05-08
Inspired by archaeology, lost civilizations, and the art of illustration, James Gurney’s children book Dinotopia creates an extraordinary place where humans and dinosaurs live in harmony.Read More →
Beautiful hand drawn birds from the nineteenth century
2021-03-27
These beautiful hand-drawn birds were taken from two books by Mary and Elizabeth Kirby; Beautiful Birds in Far-off Lands and Birds of Gay Plumage. Read More →
Illustrator Charlotte Edey creates soft yet bold dream-like worlds
2021-03-26
Charlotte Edey is a British printing, textile and embroidery artist & illustrator. Her interdisciplinary discovery of the intersections of identity and the spiritual reveals the symbolism and myth within her work. Womxn’s experience of colour is centred in her commentary on the politics of space.Read More →
Japanese Woodblock Prints: Artists, Publishers and Masterworks: 1680 – 1900
2021-03-22
A picture is worth a million words… At least that is how people feel when viewing illustrations by a mysterious Japanese performer Avogado6 . The illustrator and movie editor doesn’t share many personal facts about his life. “I am a normal person who likes chemistry,” he writes on his Twitter profileRead More →
Total Control, illustration by Andrew Fairclough
2021-01-11
Andrew Fairclough is an Australian illustrator, designer and art director based in Los Angeles. KINDRED STUDIO Illustration. Design. Art Direction.Read More →
Manuel Orazi and notable art nouveau posters
2020-10-24
Manuel Orazi was a Spanish illustrator, a lithographer who contributed notable Art Nouveau posters of the last quarter of the nineteenth century. He designed the 1884 Théodora poster for Sarah Bernhardt with Gorguet. Others of his posters were for Peugeot bicycles, the opera Aben Hamet and, in the form of an old torn manuscript, for the opera Thaïs by Jules Massenet.
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Quirky Pop Culture Illustrations by Ricardo Veronez
2020-10-24
Loving these cute characters by Brazilian illustrator Ricardo Veronez.Read More →
Embroidered Illustrations by R.Masha
2020-10-23
Embroidered Illustrations by R.Masha Beautifully crafted embroidered artworks by Russian artist R.Masha . Embroidered Illustrations by R.Masha | InspirationRead More →
Artist Turns Her Boring Toilet Into A Magical Place
2020-10-22
Artist Roza Khamitova recently completed her latest series Shovava, which involved creating countless numbers of drawings and paintings. There were so many of them, they were barely fitting under her bed. So she decided to put them to use by transforming her toilet.Read More →
Everyday Digital Art by Kurt Chang
2020-10-20
Kurt Chang is an artist based in Los Angeles, CA, USA, he has been sharing pretty illustrations via his Behance. With this never-ending pandemic, I have noticed an increase in ‘digital art’ projects being shared.Read More →
Cracked Portraits by Taisuke Mohri
2020-10-19
‘Cracked Portraits’ is an ongoing series of illustrations by Japanese artist Taisuke Mohri. The realistic hand-drawn portraits are overlaid with a pane of cracked glass, which contributes to the ethereal, surrealistic aspect of these artworks.Read More →
Retro-futuristic Illustrations by Tishk Barzanji
2020-10-16
Tishk Barzanji is a visual artist based in London, United Kingdom. The work of Tishk Barzanji touches on the modernism movement, and surrealism. Inspired by his childhood in Kurdistan, and later moving to London in 1997. Read More →
Drawings of Daily Resistance from the 1956 Montgomery Bus Boycott
2020-10-09
In the spring of 1956, two young artists from Brooklyn noticed that something momentous was happening in the South.Read More →
35 Whale Tattoo Ideas
2020-10-05
People have different attitudes when it comes to tattooing. Some approve it, some consider unnecessary to draw on the body. As with everything else, this is also a matter of taste, and for tattoo lovers in our gallery we present tattoos of the whale.Read More →
Game of Thrones Papercuts
2020-10-05
These intricate portraits of our favourite Game of Thrones characters are made entirely from paper, cut in different layers and using various colours and textures to emulate the strokes of a paintbrush.
Crafted by Robbin Gregorio, an illustrator and designer from the Philippines, the attention to detail is impressive and certainly demonstrates a patient and steady hand. From the expensive, embroidered clothes and house emblems to the heavy beards and fur coats, Robbin papercuts depict every character beautifully.Read More →
Lindsay Stripling – San Francisco based illustrator
2020-10-04
Lindsay Stripling is a San Francisco based artist and illustrator I really admire and whose work I’ve really enjoyed watching develop as she also made the transition to full-time illustrator. I admire is that Lindsay has stayed true to her own style and originality.Read More →
Lonely Astronaut Navigating the Present
2020-10-04
The astronaut in the paintings of American artist Scott Listfield explores a dystopian world cluttered with pop culture icons, corporate logos, and tongue-in-cheek science fiction references. Instead of the futuristic flying cars and robot butlers that was widely anticipated in books and movies, his astronaut character navigates the icons of the present: drones, fast-food chains, pop singers. More paintings here, and follow him on Instagram.Read More →