Girl in the water. The girl is the German model Hana Nitsche. Daniela Wolf pencil drawing

Daniela Wolf pencil drawing
The tools Daniela uses for drawing these awesome images – colored pencils. According to the artist, it takes her only 2-3 days to complete the drawing. Talented German artist Daniela Wolf (nicknamed Svera) creates beautiful hyper realistic portraits with pencils, that look like photographs. In her art gallery – portraits of celebrities, fantasy drawings, still life and movie scenes. Unfortunately, I couldn’t find any information on the biography of the artist, except the fact that she enjoys writing, mostly fantasy novels and science fiction short stories.
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Wedding. Oil on canvas, 2014. Painting by Belarusian artist Anna Silivonchik

Belarusian artist Anna Silivonchik
One of the most prominent personalities among young Belarusian painters, Silivonchik works in extremely distinctive style. The artist has created a special world, referring to the very archaic layers of culture, while maintaining a clear link with the art of the twentieth century.
Thus, the source of the artist’s aesthetic guidelines is in fantastic realism of Chagall, naive art of primitives of the early twentieth century, and the local arts and crafts, and of course, folklore. A variety of characters – children, lovers, people, animals, birds, angels, lions and mythological creatures – unicorns, sirens, dragons – inhabit a peculiar and unreal world of Anna Silivonchik.
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Bird, miniature painting on M & M’s candy. Hasan Kale Mıcro Art

Hasan Kale Mıcro Art

Born in 1960 in Turkey, Hasan Kale makes awesome miniature, even micro drawings of beautiful landscapes, cityscapes, wildlife, historical characters, and not only. The artist has been working in micro miniature since the 1980s.
For his detailed mini-marvels he uses extraordinary canvases, such as the wings of any taxidermied insect, a lemon peel, pasta, snail shells, seeds, lump of sugar, grain of rice, and even sharp plant spikes! However, the skillful artist doesn’t need a wooden board to mix colors on it, instead, he uses his finger as a palette. For 55-year-old artist miniaturist the main inspiration is his native city, that’s why we see colorful scenes of Istanbul in most of his art works.
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Walking in London. Painting on silk by Elena Prudnikova

Painting on silk by Elena Prudnikova
Inspired by the beauty of London and its attractions, architecture and streets, the artist has created a series of remarkable paintings on silk.
Smolensk based artist Elena Prudnikova graduated from Moscow Pedagogical University (graphic arts faculty) to become a teacher of Art. Her favorite technique of painting is batik, or painting on silk fabric stretched on cardboard, with acrylic paints.
Many of her works have participated in international exhibitions and are in private collections in Russia and abroad. Elena Prudnikova is a member of the International Association of Art. She lives and works in Smolensk.
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Iconic image of Audrey Hepburn in Breakfast at Tiffany’s. Colored pencils, pen and marker. Soo Kim pencil drawings

Soo Kim pencil drawings
Los Angeles, California based Graphic artist and web designer Soo Kim prefers old ways of creating art – pencil and pen drawing, instead of using Photoshop. The talented young illustrator has created a gallery of wonderful pencil portraits of iconic faces of the last century. Among them – Audrey Hepburn (series of portraits), Marilyn Monroe, Elizabeth Taylor, Grace Kelly, Jean Shrimpton, Twiggy, and Brigitte Bardot.

In addition, her gallery includes characters of our favorite films, such as The Great Gatsby and Game of Thrones (celebrities and movies series). In her work, Korean artist Soo Kim uses graphite, colored pencils, pastels, Conte and charcoal. According to the artist, her favorite artists are Pablo Picasso, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Vincent Van Gogh and her compatriot Lee Chul Soo – woodcut artist depicting humble life in rural Korea.
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Kiss, inspired by Gustav Klimt. Kaliningrad Amber painting

Kaliningrad Amber painting
Every stone of amber is a frozen ray of sunshine kept for 40 million years. So, the picture from amber is not only a unique work of art, but also a part of the sun’s heat, zipped through millions of years. Landscapes, portraits, icons, images of fauna and flora made of amber radiate a positive energy and have a positive effect on a person.

Love for amber painting is due to the very nature of the origin of the material. The magic of the stone in the hands of artists becomes a work of art. It is the secret that fascinates, and turns painting into something more.

Gamma of amber colors is so great, that includes, perhaps, the entire spectrum of sunlight. That is why, according to experts, there are no two identical amber stones. Amber pictures include elements of small size made of a fine amber crumbs. Pictures of amber crumbs allow very accurately convey the image of people, animals, birds, nature and landscapes. But the greatest value is the applique made image of amber, where each element of the work of art – a separate amber stone.

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Night in the steppe, 1983. Painting by Ukrainian artist Ivan Marchuk

Contemporary Ukrainian artist Ivan Marchuk
Born May 12, 1936 in the Soviet Union, Marchuk is one of the most expensive artists of Ukraine. They say, he almost does not sell his works, and he has painted about four thousand of them.

“Plentanizm” – created by him direction in painting, when instead of the usual brush strokes, paint is applied by thin lines, threads, creating the effect of lace volume. Ivan Marchuk became People’s Artist of Ukraine in 1996, and in 1997 he became a winner of the national award of Taras Shevchenko. In 2006 the International Academy of Modern Art in Rome included Marchuk in “Golden guild” and he became an honorary member of the Scientific Council of the Academy in 2006.

Today, the “Golden Guild” includes 51 artists from all over the world. Noteworthy, in 2007 British newspaper «The Daily Telegraph» included Marchuk in the list of “A hundred geniuses of our time”. Ivan Marchuk currently lives and works in Kiev.
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