Portraits Drawn On World and Celestial Maps by Ed Fairburn
above: Windermere, Pencil on a cropped map of the English Lakes – specifically Lake Windermere. Cardiff-based illustrator Ed Fairburn sees things in maps most of…
above: Windermere, Pencil on a cropped map of the English Lakes – specifically Lake Windermere. Cardiff-based illustrator Ed Fairburn sees things in maps most of…
Using a portrait of Russian Mathematician Grigori Perelman by artist Jules Julian, designers Alan Temiraev and Volodenka Zotov created a beautifully designed pencil set. Grigori…
above: detail from ‘Elephants’, the first place winner of the 2012 ArtPrize
ArtPrize has become the world’s largest art competition by combining $560,000 in total prizes with an open call for artists, venues, and critics. This year’s ArtPrize Winner Adonna Khare mural of “Elephants” is an illustrated series of life sized pachyderms, intertwined with a menagerie of animals. (Links to all the finalists are at the end of this post). (more…)
I came across Paul Chiappe's unusual and frankly, astonishing, work while reading this wonderful 5 part series of 100 artists to watch at ArtInfo. Paul…
For someone who supposedly has a satirical black sense of humor, these pieces of artwork (which consist of assembled pencils, carved or cut to make the wood core a canvas and then painted upon) are some of the sweetest things I’ve ever seen. Framed as shown below, artist Ghostpatrol (aka David Booth) has created variations of these assemblages, using different types and colors of the pencils and numerous colored backgrounds on which they are mounted. (more…)