Artist:
Ivan Hoo
Artwork:
Beautiful & Hyper-Realistic Drawings of Dogs, Cat and Bunny.
Location:
Singapore
“I always love to draw realistic art or artworks that tease the eyes and the brain.”
~ Ivan Hoo
All images courtesy of Ivan Hoo.
Artist:
Ivan Hoo
Artwork:
Beautiful & Hyper-Realistic Drawings of Dogs, Cat and Bunny.
Location:
Singapore
“I always love to draw realistic art or artworks that tease the eyes and the brain.”
~ Ivan Hoo
Artist:
Zaria Forman
Artwork:
A series of photo-realistic drawings of Greenland's Iceberg Landscapes, titled “Chasing the Light”
Location:
Brooklyn, New York, USA
The inspiration for my drawings began in my early childhood when I traveled with my family throughout several of the worlds most remote landscapes, which became the subject of my mother’s fine art photography. I developed an appreciation for the beauty and vastness of the ever-changing sky and sea. I loved watching a far-off storm on the western desert plains; the monsoon rains of southern India; and the cold arctic light illuminating Greenland’s waters. In my work I explore moments of transition, turbulence and tranquility in the landscape and their impact on the viewer. In this process I am reminded of how small we are when confronted with the powerful forces of nature. The act of drawing can be a meditation for me, and my hope is that the viewer can share this tranquil escape when engaging the work.
~ Zaria Forman
All images courtesy of Zaria Forman.
Artist:
Brad Kunkle
Artwork:
Oil Paintings of beautiful women adorned with gold and silver leaf.
Location:
Brooklyn, New York, USA
These paintings are embellished with genuine gold and silver leaf, which reflects light in a room differently than paint. Therefore, they can appear contrastive and unique when the point of view or source of light has changed.
~ Brad Kunkle
All images courtesy of Brad Kunkle.
Artist:
Nasa Funahara
Artwork:
Paintings with colorful masking tapes to recreate classic masterpieces such as “Mona Lisa” and “The Last Supper” by Leonardo da Vinci; “The Scream” by Edvard Munch; Vermeer’s “Girl with a Pearl Earring” and more.
Location:
Japan
Artist Info:
Funahara is a student at Musashino Art University. Her masking tape artwork has started from a simple school assignment to a series of gorgeous artwork recreating the famous paintings of old masters.
All new images (masking tape artwork) courtesy of Nasa Funahara.
Artist: Dirk Dzimirsky
Artwork: Hyper-realistic pencil drawings & oil paintings
Location: Germany
Artist Statement:
Dirk Dzimirsky (b. 1969) is a german artist best known for his hyperrealistic drawings and paintings depicting human beings in a somewhat dark artistic mood, relentlessly revealing the vulnerability and tragedy of their condition. The artworks are based on a selection of photos. All the complex details and surreal, overreaching compositions of light and shadow intend to create a dramatic feeling and intense emotions for the viewers. read more…
All images courtesy of Dirk Dzimirsky.
Artist: Bear Kirkpatrick
Artwork: Photography - complex, rich and multi-faceted portraits.
Location: New Hampshire, USA
Artist Statement:
Bear Kirkpatrick defines his imagery as evidence, documents of past and present human psychological states. He is presently working to develop a model to prove that acquired characteristics are not only inheritable as a result of natural selection and artificial selection, but also as the result of psychological selection as created by the environmental pressure of human memory. read more…
All images courtesy of Bear Kirkpatrick and jdc Fine Art.
Artist: Lorenzo Villa
Artwork: Paintings on sheets of transparent plexiglass.
Location: Italy
Artist Statement:
Paintings on sheets of transparent plexiglass, on both sides.
On the back, with the layering of glazes, to get the bottom of the painting, (words, trees, simple lines or spots in an abstract context – informal ), which eventually will be visible only by looking at the front.
The characters and objects that complement the pictorial message, however, are painted in acrylic on front, thus creating a kind of three-dimensional effect more or less obvious. The whole is given by the detachment that is created between the bottom and foreground elements, thanks to the thickness of the slab, which can vary from 1 to 5 mm.
All images courtesy of Lorenzo Villa.
Artist: Nuala O’Donovan
Artwork: Porcelain Sculptures
Location: Cork City, Ireland
Artist Statement:
My work combines regular pattern with the characteristics of irregular patterns and forms from nature. Each element of the pattern is individually made, the form is constructed slowly over a period of weeks or months. The finished forms are a result of an intuitive response to the direction that the pattern takes as well as the irregularity in the handmade elements of the pattern.
All images courtesy of Nuala O’Donovan.
Photography Credit: Sylvain Deleu and Janice O’Connell
