ENCYCLOPEDIA OF STRANGE ANIMALS Combining both digital and traditional tools, VLAD Stankovic admits he’s more fond of the latter, employing watercolors, colored pencils, and markers. “With the use of traditional techniques I kind of get the results I want in the fastest and most fun way,” he says. The finishing touches are added digitally. The […]
CHILDHOOD MEMORIES Gill del Mace: “I came across a Twentieth Century art movement, and I found this art fascinating, and the very name ‘Magic Realism’ conjured up visions from my past. A past influenced by weird and wonderful people, tattooed ladies, contortionists, clowns and movie people, and all seen as a child.” [Source: Print decor] […]
TERROR AND SADISM Dale Keogh is an australian artist who makes dark, surreal and bizarre illustrations. Using black backgrounds and dark colors, Keogh portrays women in extreme situations. Influenced by hentais (japanese pornographic animations), the artist shows us women struggling with tentacles, crustacean claws, spiders and other creatures. Keogh’s illustrations mix terror, sadism and surrealism. […]
NIGHTMARISH IMAGERY AND ABSURDISM Beau White is an Australian hyperrealist and figurative oil painter who uses nightmarish imagery and absurdism to explore the darker side of the human condition: “I have been interested in illustrating absurd, grotesque and distastefully humorous images since primary school. There is nothing particularly philosophical about my art in the conceptual […]
THE FLESH COLOURS Graeme Balchin’s greatest passion in painting, is the learning. The collecting of new methods and techniques that give better and better results in his works. His favored subject: young women. He says is because they are the hardest to paint. The luminosity of the flesh colours is so challenging and playing with […]
THE ANGULAR SHAPES OF BODIES Long inspired by the art movements and the bold angular shapes of the early 20th century, australian artist Catherine Abel creates striking figurative oil paintings. Combining classic styles with complex themes of modern feminine sexuality, her works are powerfully seductive compositions of strength and beauty. Influenced at an early age […]
