A Week in Seville, by Christopher Stone

I have just returned from a very interesting, and very hot week in Seville, (44 degrees C average temp). I have been exposed to some great art in its many forms, painting, sculpture, and Flamenco for example. But first I want to complain, as I am oft want to do, Calle Sierpes must be one of Seville’s most renown streets, they say that “Tapas” were invented here, a small plate containing a tasty tidbit was placed on top of your [...]

Artist Brian Borrello Creates New Print Series Using Actual BP Oil

NEW ORLEANS, LA.- Jonathan Ferrara Gallery announced a limited unique edition print by artist Brian Borrello that will benefit the expansion of resources and mental health support for children and families affected by the oil spill. Brian Borrello is a Portland-based artist who was born and raised in New Orleans. Borrello is well-known for his environmental works and public art projects. “New Orleans Skyline” is a high-resolution digital print on archival paper with oil collected from the BP Deepwater Horizon [...]

Joyriders-Photos by Ross McDonnell

In this series of photos entitled “Joyriders” Ross McDonnell, portrays the lives of young Irish people living in in the hollowed-out slum known as Ballymun. The images capture the abandonment of working class youths amidst burning cars, police sirens, and drugs abuse. Ross McDonnell is a photographer and filmmaker. Born in Dublin, Ireland in 1979 he has worked as a photographer, cinematographer and director. His work has been published in The New York Times, Art in America, The Observer, The [...]

Pencil Drawings Combined with Photographs by Ben Heine

Ben Heine, a talented Belgian artist, has created a series of awesome images by combining photographs with pencil drawings. Enjoy! For more creative art by Ben Heine, visit flickr.com/photos/benheine/

Maurizio Bongiovanni, between reality and abstraction

Maurizio Bongiovanni (1979) is an italian artist. His work is placed right in the middle between realism and abstraction. This kind of research is mainly expressed in his birds series. In these oil on canvases streams of colors are generated from realistic colorful birds, in a perfect mix between different kinds of art styles. The result is stunning.

Poster Stencil by Sten & Lex

Italian street atists Sten & Lex have been working together since they met at University in 2002. They developed this technique to make Poster Stencil art. First they make the stencils and paste them on a panel of wood as a poster. Then they paint the whole board black, when it’s dry they remove the stencil but leave some parts on the board. In the end the stencil is destroyed and becomes part of the poster. > flickr.com

Francoise Nielly’s colorful portraits

Nielly is the canvas painter who creates this amazing colorful and massive portraits. The French artist paints with oils and her palette knife to portray exotic faces from black and white photos. Is very interesting watch her creating them in the video at the bottom of the post.

Illustrations by Gabriel Moreno

Gabriel Moreno is a illustrator, engraver and painter based in Madrid, graduated of Fine Arts in the University of Sevilla in ‘98. Since then he worked in different design studios and ad agencies in Andalusia. In June 2007 he begins to show his portfolio and after being selected amongst the 20 new talents of illustration, by the London based magazine Computer Arts, he begins his succesful carreer as an illustrator. At present he has worked with virtually every major national [...]

Surrealist Artworks by Pat Perry

Pat Perry is an artist / illustrator  from Michigan, United States. His artworks are surreal, and inspiration from where Pat lives, Michigan, camping and the woods. His favorite media is pen&ink, and paint, the only software he uses is Photoshop to manipulate color occasionally. Take a look at some of his Timelapse video Painting. > patperry.net > his blog

Kyle Lambert’s ‘finger painted’ iPad portrait of Beyonce

Digital and graphic artist Kyle Lambert has demonstrated the potential of Apple’s iPad by using his finger and a painting application to create a photo-realist portrait of Beyonce. And the artist from Altrincham, Cheshire, has also produced a video, above, which shows the six hour-work cut down to just two minutes of stop-motion photography. He created the portrait using the Brushes app, which he uploaded a month ago when iPad came out. He had previously used the same app to [...]

Coffee Kiss Sculpture

Beautiful sculpture created by Tsang Cheung Shing from Hong Kong. Yuanyang II sculpture was named after a popular beverage made from a mixture of coffee and Hong Kong-style milk tea. The name, which refers to Mandarin Duck, is a symbol of conjugal love in Chinese culture.

The Dark Side of The Portrait Photography by Tom Hoops

Tom Hoops, is a photographer originally from the UK, currently based in Asia. Unconventional subjects, heavy use of black and white and a magnetic dark mood in every image make Tom Hoops’ photographic style truly original and recognizable. tomhoops.com

Nick Lepard’s paintings

Nick Lepard is a young painter from Vancouver. His style reminds Jenny Saville’s work, but focused on portraits.

Urban Puns by Gabriel Mendez

Gabriel Mendez was born and raised in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He recently graduated at Parsons School of Design in New York with a BFA in Photography. He currently lives and works between New York and Rio, photographing and exhibiting his personal projects, shooting for major corporations and contributing to magazines in the United States, Brazil, Italy, Portugal, and Argentina. NEW YORK SAO PAULO / LOS ANGELES RIO DE JAINERO

Etched Leather Artwork by Mark Evans

The artist Mark Evans creates portraits of famous faces, all hand-etched into leather hides. He creates artwork using knives as his ‘paintbrushes’. These leather works of art are incredible and impressively detailed. > markevansart.com