Pop Surrealism Meets Pop Culture! Artist Mark Ryden is teaming up with Mattel Creations for Pink Pop, an exhibition of paintings, sculptures and drawings with Barbie as the focus. Mark…
above: In 'The deeply misunderstood friendly Shiphugger', ItchySoul has added a giant octopus and water details atop a found vintage oil painting of a classic clipper ship. Sweden-born artist Emmy…
It's been awhile since I posted a new artist's paintings of chairs, one of my personal favorite subjects. Cindy Rizza Lawn Chair Paintings That said, these empty lawn chairs by…
With a keen eye for composition, a deft hand for realism, and an inherent knack for finding interesting subject matter, painter Curt Hoppe immortalizes his surroundings, people and objects in…
I first noticed Alex Roulette's impressive realism with his 2008 painting, Summer (shown below), which caught my eye because I have a thing for pool paintings. Alex Roulette Fabricated Landscapes…
Steven Albert's oil paintings are hyperrealistic representations of urban and small town icons like cafes, coffeehouses, street windows, graffiti scrawled walls and parked cars. The mundane subject matter is executed…
When you hear the term "sponge painting" you're likely to think of an old sponge dipped in paint and used as a stamp. But I'm talking about a different kind;…
Brazil born artist Maria Penter's figurative paintings stand out not only because of her spare use of color but also for their negative space, cropping and realistic illustrative quality. The…
If photo-realistic art is your thing, you'd be hard-pressed to find more impressively accurate depictions of dogs, cats and horses than the Jane Booth pet paintings. She captures not only…
Helga Stentzel's Clothesline Animals combine cleverness with visual appeal to result in charming images she sells as fine art prints in various sizes. Helga Stentzel Clothesline Animals An artist/photographer whose…
Premium Italian coffee brand Lavazza unveiled its annual calendar for 2023 and it focuses - perhaps a little too soon - on how venues have reopened after the COVID quarantine…
NFT art and digital art auctions continue to gain popularity despite the millions who still have trouble wrapping their heads around the concept. Now status brand Gucci has entered the…
There are so many talented tattoo artists in the world (like this guy), it's always difficult to choose whose work to share with you. But once I saw the work…
Artist Eric Nash is drawn to Southern California and its mundane imagery. Signs and structures seen so often most of are anesthetized to their appearance. That is, until they are…
Paris Fashion Week has returned and with it a slew of new breathtaking and impressive fashions from designers who have spent the last year working hard under quarantine. This year…
Many of the contemporary surrealist portrait paintings by Serbian artist Petar Mošić have more in common than just their illustrious quality, they also confront the viewer with a steely penetrating…
Artist Ivana Zivic Rooms of Water paintings are a series of artworks which blend realism, fantasy and montage to result in surreal pieces that depict clothed human figures submerged underwater.…
With an impressive ouevre of figurative work already under his belt, the Zuma Beach Paintings by Stephen Wright, exemplify his skill at rendering photo-realistic water, light and movement. Zuma Beach…
36 year old Swedish artist Nick Alm is a Contemporary Realist whose paintings of both social and private scenes exude an ethereal gestalt accentuated by his masterful command of light.…
Daina Higgins has painted a series of works which depict the recent controversial defacing of and/or removal of publicly displayed Confederate Statues. These oil paintings capture memorable moments of 2020…