Art Kaleidoscope

Landscape from series “Between the spaces of eternity”. Diane Varner daily walks

Diane Varner daily walks
Her beautiful photographs touch the most secret, deep soul strings. Diane Varner works are so precise and beautiful, and wonderfully reflect the time, experience, look, and the movement. And we want to watch her photographs for hours, pausing in the ringing silence of inexpressible beauty, caught in the frame. The striking simplicity and richness in this simplicity. It all started with the daily walks with her dog and a camera. Of course, it all started a little earlier. Diane started her career as an artist doing painting. As she talks about herself in an interview her creative formation was influenced by few people, and above all – her mother, who worked in watercolor and collage. According to Diane, her mother was the main support pillar, who constantly inspired by her own example.
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Work in progress. Painting flowers Pieter Wagemans

Painting flowers Pieter Wagemans
“Flowers – the creation of nature. They are best what created by it.” – says Belgian artist Pieter Wagemans. Pieter Wagemans was born August 11, 1948 in the town of Merckx, not far from Antwerp. Since childhood, Peter had the ability to spontaneously express himself through artistic gift, which was probably inherited from his father. From an early age, it became clear that he would improve his gift further. In recent years, Peter develops highly specialized skills in drawing floral still life compositions as an option. Detailed drawing of flowers requires a lot of self-discipline, as the very period of time is a major challenge for the artist. Flowers are always changing. To capture the moment, Peter neglects under-painting and paints each flower in turn, ‘a la prima’ performing picturesque work in one session, until the painting is complete. Sometimes for a single flower the artist may need the whole day, another time – only a few hours, and the whole floral arrangement can be painted for several weeks.
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Pink roses. Chinese wisdom in painting

Chinese wisdom in painting
In the flower language of China, pink rose is the true love and friendship, and white rose expresses pure love, women’s crystal clear soul. White-pink roses seem particularly delicate on peach paper with gold highlights. Signature “flowers of soul luxuriantly bloom“. Moscow based artist Galina (aka Progalina) is passionate about oriental culture, Chinese wisdom in painting, and philosophy hidden in hieroglyphs.
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Waxwings on the vine. Painting on silk by batik artist Yaroslava Kuznetsova

Batik artist Yaroslava Kuznetsova, known as the Master Amarga – a professional artist, member of the Moscow Union of Artists. Yaroslava has become engaged in batik quite recently. Although her experience in painting on fabric has a couple of decades, but they were painting scenery and costumes for the theater and cinema. Few specifics, other materials and for other purposes – the screen, and, especially, the scene, that is much more conventional, and “clothes” can not be used in everyday life. But she wanted to move all this beauty into life.
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Guilin tree art – Green lizard crawling on a tree trunk

Guilin tree art
Chinese street art which has recently appeared in the city of Guilin, south China, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, would be better called tree graffiti. On the trunks of local tress appeared realistic animals, which look like living creatures – crawling, climbing, and simply resting on the tree trunks and branches. Nature and animals have become the main inspiration for unknown street artists in the Chinese city of Guilin. Besides, each painting is a unique composition constructed in accordance with the form of trunks, with great sensitivity to their shape, texture, and growths. More than 20 trunks got their own animals, and strolling through the park you can find Lifelike tigers, zebras, lizards, giraffes, and so on. Some animals and insects painted of a larger size to be seen by passers-by.
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Red-chest bird. Kirsten Chursinoff embroidery art

Kirsten Chursinoff embroidery art
Canadian artist of applied art Kirsten Chursinoff loves to embroider. This type of needlework seems to her the most universal, the ability to attract a combination of hand and machine work. Kirsten is glad that ordinary materials such as yarn and fabric can create beautiful images of nature, which is the main inspiration for her. Kirsten’s embroidery is more like postcards with landscapes, plants, animals. The author emphasizes that she draws inspiration from the contemplation of nature. In addition, she spends a lot of time studying the different types of embroidery, looking for fresh ideas in books on art and photography. The mother of two children, Kirsten Chursinoff lives in Vancouver, British Columbia. The latest exhibition “Feathers and Wings” of her embroidered birds, butterflies and moths took place in New Westminster Public Library April 1-30, 2015.
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Awesome sculpture of a dog. Atlanta Botanical Garden green sculpture

Atlanta Botanical Garden green sculpture – one of the main local attractions. Founded in 1976, the garden covers an area of 12 hectares, being located in the central part of the city and neighbor of Piedmont Park. Visitors can not only admire the rich collection of plants, but also exhibitions that are held periodically. For example, in 2004 there was an exhibition of works of glass, which for eight months had been visited by 425,000 people. And in 2013 took place an impressive green sculpture exhibition «Imaginary Worlds».
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