Art

January 12, 2020

Artist Fills Her Sketchbooks With Fantasy Worlds You’ll Want to Live In

It's easy to fall into the world of a beautifully crafted illustration. Sometimes, the longer you look, the more detail you notice. Such is the specialty of Polish artist Renata Krawczyk, whose talent shines in the dreamy detailed worlds she draws in her sketchbooks with her pens and pencils. Based in Lódź, Krawczyk graduated from the Strzemiński Academy of Fine Art before pursuing her own creative practice.

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January 8, 2020

Surreal Paintings Reimagine NYC Subway Passengers as Half-Human, Half-Animal Hybrids

Most of us know that riding public transportation is like entering an entirely different world. Whether it's subways or buses, we're surrounded by interesting strangers going about their usual lives like ourselves. Nowadays, we typically occupy ourselves with our phones to block out the crowds. Artist Matthew Grabelsky explores this phenomenon in his series of uncanny paintings entitled Passengers.

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January 3, 2020

Woman Creates Incredible Movie-Inspired Sculptures Out of Gingerbread

While many of us are just trying to get the hang of putting together a gingerbread house that won't collapse, motion designer Caroline Eriksson is pushing the limits of the medium. Since 2013, the Swedish creative has been producing impressive movie-related gingerbread sculptures. Her creations, which take about five weeks to complete, become more and more ambitious each year.

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January 1, 2020

Surreal Animal Paintings Reimagine Wildlife and Their Connection to Nature

Artist Jon Ching is mesmerized by the beautiful plumage of birds. He celebrates their incredible markings and colors in dreamlike paintings that fuse animals with other parts of nature—and sometimes other creatures, too. In one instance, small red birds replace the bulbous blooms on tropical plants. Another of Ching's oil artworks presents a stately portrait of a turquoise-colored bird whose layers of feathers morph into leaves punctuated by yellow flowers.

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