Art

March 20, 2020

Artist Purrfectly Blends Cats Into Minimalist Landscape Illustrations

Many of us have tried looking for shapes in the clouds, but what about entire landscapes? Kuala Lumpur-based artist Lim Heng Swee (aka ilovedoodle) creates graphic illustrations depicting cats that seamlessly blend into mountains, waves, and skylines. Swee’s playful Cat Landscape series of minimalist illustrations look like depictions of an otherworldly cat planet. He playfully takes inspiration from Japanese painters like the great Hokusai.

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March 15, 2020

Traveling Artist Captures the Charm of Ancient Towns in Watercolor and Ink

Rather than snap photos with his camera, traveler and urban sketching artist Qian Shi captures his surroundings as watercolor paintings. Rendered in his distinct loose style, Shi works quickly to capture fleeting moments, forever immortalizing each scene in gestural line work and painterly brushstrokes. Shi is a great believer of “practice makes perfect.

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March 13, 2020

Artist Crafts Oversized Tissue Paper Flowers That Belong in a Candy-Colored Dreamscape

Artist Marianne Eriksen-Scott Hansen creates “paper couture” featuring larger-than-life blooms crafted from tissue paper. The thin sheets of color are gathered and trimmed to form petals and leaves that, while solid objects, have an ethereal quality to them. It’s as if they are fixtures in a candy-hued dreamscape. Experimentation is a central focus of Hansen’s paper creations.

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March 11, 2020

Watercolorist Captures the Essence of Different Cities in Expressive Series of Paintings

Every metropolis has a unique pulse. Artist Álvaro Castagnet travels the world to capture the dynamic energy of various cities in expressive watercolor paintings. By using this light and brilliant medium, Castagnet is able to paint en plein air and swiftly render the essence of daily life felt at that moment. Born and currently based in Uruguay, the South American artist studied painting at the Fine Arts University in Montevideo.

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