Apologies for the radio silence! I’ve been down with the flu but plenty of stuff to post soon ;)
Came across these paintings by Tokyo-based illustrator Awazu Yasunari and was immediately captivated by his use of expressive and bold brush strokes that are wonderfully offset by finer detailing. I’m also equally fascinated by the conscious omission of detail, a concept that I too as a designer once explored. Some times you just gotta allow the wonderful thing that is the human imagination to work a little!
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At first glance these intricate oil paintings of rock and mineral specimens by Canadian artist Carly Waito might be mistaken for photos, but they are painstakingly detailed renditions of these natural elements that have been photographed in macro. So beautiful!
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Brooklyn artist Shane McAdams made these incredible abstract paintings out of pens – those bog standard ballpoint ones you can buy pretty much anywhere! The process is rather fascinating – he takes apart the pens, blows the ink through the tube cartridges onto these panels and if you’ve ever messed around with this as a kid (I did!) you’ll know that ballpoint pen ink is thick, viscous and sticky and blows out in these spider web-like strings which are highly pigmented and also quite hard to wash off your hands.. he then takes it to a tanning salon and exposes it to UV rays to fade the ink and these are a result of many hours of experimentation with different inks and techniques. Amazing!
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Art that is impermanent always fascinates me. It is a reminder of how fleeting some moments can be, in this case Jim Denevan has created some amazing sand art using a piece of driftwood as his brush and the beach as his canvas. That the waves washes some of it away makes it really magical..
He also works with earth and ice, do check out his amazing work!
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British artist Jennifer Collier produces her artwork by treating paper as fabric and stitching together a variety of different prints and textures to recreate everyday objects. She has an amazing eye for form and narrative as the paper itself lends its own story to her art.
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