Inner World of Instinct by Samantha Keely Smith

Samantha Keely Smith‘s artwork represents a striving to reconcile the inner world of instinct and the tidal sweep of our emotional life, with an external world that is both beautiful and hostile in its natural grandeur. She attempts to map the place where these worlds intersect. The translucent layers of paint, contrasting soft ethereal brushwork and harder edged sweeping gestures, echo this divergence and depict a timeless place that hovers between dream and reality in a way that is simultaneously alluring and menacing. The work exhibits the struggle between and among the variety of human impulses: impulses that are as necessary as they are contradictory, and which therefore constantly undermine our psychic and social coherence even as they endow us with vitality, soul, and life.

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Underwater by Eric Zener

Looking through artist Eric Zener‘s underwater paintings, you start to immediately remember what it feels like to be immersed in cool, clear water. That moment when the world’s worries wash away and a sense of calmness overtakes your body. Zener calls that shared feeling our “quest for refuge and peace beneath the chaos of life.”

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Elliptical Marks by Jacob Everett

Jacob Everett’s drawings are based from photographs, and he uses a grid method on paper and then concentrates on one section at a time. “I produce large-scale portraits using an intricate technique of overlapping elliptical marks, which gradually build to represent the subtle contours of the face.”

Portrait of a Lady by Loui Jover

Queensland, Australia-based artist Loui Jover creates striking artworks by using pen and dripping ink on pages of vintage books. While many of his pieces show the complicated emotions on a woman’s face, Jover is equally adept at creating romantic love scenes of faceless silhouettes.

Metropolis Movie Posters From 1927

The movie Metropolis was made in 1927. These are the remaining posters.

How to photograph with a pencil

Italian artist Diego Fazio, better known as DiegoKoi, is bound to blow you away with his incredible drawing skills. One of his newer pieces titled Sensazioni is an unbelievably hyperrealistic pencil drawing of a woman that has caused people to question the truth of its medium. Is it really done in pencil? The answer is an impressively resounding “Yes!”

Incredible 3D Illusion Drawings

Dutch artist Ramon Bruin makes some pretty impressive 3D drawings.

Ramon Bruin’s website

Paintings by Simon Birch

Simon’s beautiful figurative oil paintings are done on a very large scale. Each has incredible abstract details but looks oddly realistic when viewing the whole painting. He has been a part of many different projects and received numerous awards for his work.

“Birch is interested in universal ideas of transition, the ambiguous moment between an initiation and a conclusion, the unobtainable now and the future, inevitably crashing towards us. For Birch these ideas translate easily from oil paint, to film, to installations, which engage with myth, history, circus and science fiction, connection and disconnect. He chooses to explore these themes in an enveloping environment of theater and spectacle, where the process of viewing becomes experiential: overwhelming and complex, yet as spectacle and adventure, also approachable.”

Visit Simon Birch website.

I disegni vivi

Le figure si animano e saltano fuori dalle pagine di queste illustrazioni dell’artista giapponese Nagai Hideyuki. Con l’aiuto di semplici tamponi di carta e punti di vista particolari, gli straordinari disegni a carboncino e matita dell’artista formano giocose illusioni ottiche 3D. L’artista ventunenne ha un talento per la prospettiva e ogni nuovo disegno è più sorprendente di quello successivo. Hideyuki si identifica come artista anamorfico, che è uno stile di arte che deriva dal Rinascimento. Lo stile gioca sull’uso della prospettiva, in cui un artista crea immagini distorte o disegni che sono riconoscibili solo se visti da una certa posizione.

Visita il sito di Nagai Hideyuki.

Il mare e il carboncino

Guardate queste eccezionali onde marine, realizzate da Robert Longo a carboncino.