Posts Tagged ‘painting’
Painting with explosive use of color, Francoise Nielly lives and works in Paris, although she grew up in the south of France.
For many artists, travel is a huge source of inspiration. This inspiration is readily felt in the multi-layered paintings of Joan Perlman.
Resa Blatman is a talented artist and designer that I’ve been following for some time now. She is a pro at integrating her artistic style into her design work flawlessly. But what I’m really excited to share with you is her latest painting series. Consisting of spectacular cut-edge art, her new work comes alive on the wall and takes on a wonderful 3D life of its own.
Kelly O’Neal paints fabulously stylish shoes. Glittery stilettos, leopard-print high heels, and shoes with pouffy accents, feathers, flowers, and ribbons.
These colorful works are by Darrell Black, an American visual artist living in Frankfurt, whose work spans both painting and sculpture.
There’s nothing better than staring at luscious paintings of food. Donuts, sushi, cheese—oh my! Born and raised in New Jersey, artist Abbey Ryan paints tempting images of food. Check out her website to see more.
Steve Kim was born in Seoul, but now lives in Los Angeles. His oil paintings skillfully vacillate between playful abstraction and traditionally rendered precision. I love the way each painting appears to be in process, as Kim deliberately uses white space to give them an unfinished quality.
[ via SteveKim.net ]
Have you ever fantasized about a world composed entirely of sweets? Will Cotton’s delicious artwork brings that dream world to life, featuring classically painted beauties lounging on cotton candy clouds and mouthwatering landscapes filled with candy canes, chocolate, and tempting sweets that depict a sugar-fest dreamland.
Cotton begins with elaborate maquettes made from real sweets and baked goods (yum!) as a reference for his paintings. In addition to painting his luscious canvases, Cotton also art directed Katy Perry’s California Gurls music video where Katy, clad in sweets, prances through a 3-D version of one of Cotton’s painted wonderlands. Cotton also painted Katy lounging on cotton candy clouds for the album cover of Teenage Dream. Amazingly, the paper the artwork is printed on is even infused with a cotton candy fragrance, creating a wonderful treat for the senses.
“I’ve always liked sweets. Still do. It just seemed like the most apt metaphor, visually, for what I’m trying to talk about, primarily because sweets are something that’s out there for pleasure only… so that, to me, makes them exactly the right landscape situation to talk about.”
—Will Cotton via GQ.
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These abstract paintings are by American painter George Morrison. Born on the Grand Portage Indian reservation in Northeastern Minnesota, his Native American name was Wah Wah Teh Go Nay Ga Bo (Standing in the Northern Lights). Yet his paintings hint at his deep roots in abstraction, having studied in New York among Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, and Franz Klein, before heading off to France on a Fullbright.
“Painting I think is one of the great human miracles, in that it attempts, in my view, to make alternate little worlds which are in some ways made parallel to worlds which may be close to the world, but finally which are little worlds in themselves. This gives us when we think about it, like literature, like other forms of art, a kind of expanded world that we can inhabit as well.”—Wayne Thiebaud, in a conversation with Susan Krane of the San Jose Museum of Art
[ image via SFMOMA ]
