Body art project by Valeria Kutsan ‘2D or not 2D’, photographer Alexander Khokhlov

Body art project by Valeria Kutsan. Russian stylist, makeup artist and master of body art Valeria Kutsan works in a creative duo with a professional photographer Alexander Khokhlov. Their body art is always surprising and impressive. It seems we’ve seen all about what a painting on the body is and we are no longer surprised by Kandinsky on the back of the girls’ heads or realistic animals on the faces of the models. However, please be assured that if you have never met with the works of Alexander Khokhlov and Valeria Kutsan, you’re going to be surprised at what they do. In this selection of amazing body art works you can meet with an optical illusion that through body painting converted people in paintings of impressionists, expressionists, pop art artists and other members of the avant-garde currents. This body art project is called “2D or not 2D”.
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Realistic animal drawing by Romanian wildlife artist Cristina Penescu

Realistic animal portraits by Cristina Penescu. Cristina Penescu was born in Bucharest, Romania, 1988. Her family relocated to California when Cristina was огые a year old. Cristina Penescu enjoys painting a wide variety of wildlife subjects, however wild canids, especially wolves, hold a special place in her heart. Cristina creates her beautiful, very realistic portraits of dogs, wolves, tigers, leopards using white clay and ink. Cristina has had no formal art training, so she is a self-taught artist. With her black and white depictions of the natural beauty around us she hopes to inspire the world to pay more attention to the wildlife animal protection. Talented Romanian wildlife artist Cristina Penescu is currently living in California.
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Butterfly. Watercolor painting by British wildlife artist Gordon Beningfield

British wildlife artist Gordon Beningfield (1936-1998) was born in London on 31st October 1936. During the Second World War his family moved to rural Hertfordshire, where he stayed for the rest of his life. Gordon began his career at the age of 15, working for Faithcraft in St. Albans. He learned to paint, decorate, sculpt, lay gold leaf and many other crafts related to furnishing and decoration of churches. By attending St. Albans College of Art on day release and evening classes, he pursued his interest in fine art. In the 1960s, he built a reputation as a wildlife artist and in 1974, a television program called “Look Stranger” brought his work to the attention of a larger audience. Gordon’s work first appeared in book “Beningfield’s Butterflies”, followed by “Beningfield’s Countryside” and many more.
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Chameleon. Realistic ink pen Illustration by Chinese artist RLoN Wang

Realistic Illustrations by RLoN Wang. Chinese artist and designer RLoN Wang creates extremely detailed and colorful illustrations of fauna – from chameleon to a Golden Pheasant. These beautiful animals look so realistic as if they could immediately start to move around the paper. RLoN Wang uses an ink pen for his realistic drawing. Shenzhen based artist RLoN Wang demonstrates both artistic skills and a deep knowledge in biology and wildlife. All wildlife illustrations on his website are provided with all stages of drawing and the scientific description of a depicted animal.
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Kurt Cobain. Pop Culture digital Illustration by Filipino artist Dri Ilustre

Dri Ilustre Illustrations. Young and handsome Filipino artist, designer and poet Dri Ilustre has created a very colorful illustrations of famous people. In the inspirational gallery of Dri Ilustre portraits of the most iconic people of the XX century – Ernesto ‘Che’ Guevara, John Lennon, Audrey Hepburn, Freddie Mercury, Bruce Lee, Frida Kahlo, Bob Marley, Kurt Cobain, Michael Jackson, Andy Warhol, Sylvester Stallone, and many others. This series of portraits of celebrities are painted in the style of digital cubism. In his works he uses mostly red, blue and yellow colors. Filipino illustrator Dri Ilustre asks a philosophical question – “How can you just be’ yourself’ when you do not know who you are?”
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Hibernal portrait. Painting by Romanian artist Rosu-Gutman Daniel

Hibernal portrait. White ink and colored fine liners on black paper. Painting by Romanian artist Rosu-Gutman Daniel. Rosu-Gutman Danịel is a talented innovative artist, besides it takes him up to several months to create one painting. Every line is made with white ink, individually colored (a few times). Bucharest based artist Rosu-Gutman Daniel paints landscapes in the style of impressionism and pointillism. At the same time he has his own unique style. He shares his art on deviantart website. Romanian painter Rosu-Gutman Daniel was born March 27, 1981.
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Oil painting by American artist Michael Gregory

American artist Michael Gregory was born in Los Angeles in 1955. Michael Gregory paints photo-realistic landscapes that are composed of different buildings and places, collected and re-created by him in the studio. Unlike traditional paintings, painted in the open air, his works are primarily the scenery in which the human drama is played out. His richly detailed oil landscapes are highly realistic, though painted from imagination and memory. While he paints from his imagination, his landscapes often appear true to life and rich in detail. Michael Gregory is known for his luminous use of color and characteristically limited palette of whites. Michael Gregory lives and works in Bolinas, California
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