Artblog

Jewelry Painting

Edward Gorey cats

13.10.201421.03.2019

Edward Gorey cats
Chicago born self-taught artist and writer Edward Gorey was one of the most important figures in contemporary art. His black-and-white style illustrations decorated editions of such eminent writers as Edgar Allan Poe, HG Wells, TS Eliot, Samuel Beckett and John Updike. Noteworthy, Gorey was very fond of cats and even bequeathed his multi-million dollar state to the Animal Rights Society. Surprisingly, despite the artist’s love for cats, he portrayed them not very often. And if he did, it was only in anthropomorphic style, often in the form of dancers. Meanwhile, his dancing cats has become the real inspiration for jewelers. According to the artists, “Cats, like a ballerinas, extremely elegant, so I like to draw them dancing.”
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Painting

Russian artist Nick Fedaev

12.10.201422.03.2020

Russian artist Nick Fedaev
Born in 1965 in Russia, Nick Fedaev (Fedaeff) graduated from Polytechnic Institute and Evening Art School in Russia. After graduation from the institute, Nick Fedaev worked as an artist, musician and composer. Then he moved to Auckland, New Zealand, where he lives and works now. According to the artist, he finds the inspiration from various sources – his dreams, life and people, surrounding him. Also, paintings of the Old Masters of the Renaissance, Da Vinci, Dali, Bosch and Picasso. Meanwhile, he admires not only their brilliant paintings, but also their attitudes to life.
Creating his portraits of surreal women with fantasy hair style, Nick works with acrylics, oils and mix media.
Paintings by Nick Fedaev appeared in solo and group exhibitions in New Zealand, Australia, USA, Europe and Japan.
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Painting

Unique Ebru art

12.10.201422.03.2020

Unique Ebru art
Mistakenly called Paper marbling, Ebru art technique doesn’t represent simple patterns drawn on the water. Unlike paper marbling, Ebru art involves the creation of a detailed painting, landscape, and even portrait. Besides, rare masters and artists work in the classical technique of ebru. And one of these masters – Turkish Ebru artist Gharib Ai, who has achieved the perfection in Unique Ebru art, creating incredibly beautiful paintings on water surface.
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Architecture Mosaics

Traditional Chinese house decorated with seashells

12.10.201422.03.2020

Traditional Chinese house decorated with seashell mosaics. Creation by a self-taught architect Xiao Yongsheng — Creation by a self-taught architect Xiao Yongsheng. Traditional Chinese house decorated with seashells

Traditional Chinese house decorated with seashells
Beautiful house, located in the Spanish city of Salamanca, became the most famous in the world thanks to its unusual decoration. In particular, three hundred shells which decorate its facade. But in China’s Shandong Province on the island of Lingshan there is a whole building made entirely of shells.
According to a self-taught architect Xiao Yongsheng, he spent two years trying to turn his traditional Chinese home into a real marine wonder. Meanwhile, the total area of the outside of the building – 1500 sq.m. 58-year-old merman Xiao Yongsheng doesn’t regret about time and effort to decorate the house with seafood found on his own private beach.
One morning after a swimming, he saw an unusual shell, and then he got the idea of a wonderful design. During his work, he found a variety of seashells – diameter from a few millimeters to giant specimens weighing up to four pounds! This natural building material master used in different ways – for external walls, tiles, door handles and mosaics.
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Applied Art

Embroidery art by Michele Carragher

12.10.201429.07.2022

The Queen. Embroidery art by costume designer Michele Carragher

Embroidery art by Michele Carragher
London based costume designer Michele Carragher studied fashion design at London College of Fashion. The studying included designing, cutting, designing of garments, embroidery and illustration. At the same time, she studied three years at evening classes at Cordwainers College, where she received her skills in the tanning industry. Embroidery art by Carragher is an award-winning – embroidered suits for the film Game of Thrones, as well as the costumes of Queen Elizabeth I, Prince of Persia. Carragher worked as a restorer of historic costumes for private collectors and museums, costumes for film and television.
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Mosaics

Creative carpet installations

11.10.201422.03.2020

Creative carpet installations
The trio of Dutch designers – Marcia Nolte, Stijn van der Vleuten and Bob Waardenburg create unusual art works in their studio ‘We Make Carpets’ in Amsterdam. Their carpet installations look like traditional carpets from a distance. But in fact consist of pencils and fireworks, cocktail umbrellas, plastic forks, dried pasta, and anything. Now the trio of designers ‘We Make Carpets’ mark the fifth anniversary of joint efforts and creation of 50 artworks.
Meanwhile, the recognition of their extraordinary creativity has become an exhibition at the museum in Eindhoven. The exhibition, called “Kneeling, we make carpets for five years” has attracted much attention. According to the artists, they wanted people to take a fresh look at those products. “We want them to become aware of their beauty. You don’t buy a paperclip because it’s beautiful, but it is.’
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Painting

Spirit voices painter Augustin Lesage

11.10.201422.03.2020

Spirit voices painter Augustin Lesage
The story of French painter Lesage is the story of the occultist, spirit-medium, and artist. Of course, the artist in the first place, he is a classic in his field of art, which in itself is an unconventional and often plunges into a culture shock. Try to imagine the French mining town of the early twentieth century, to be exact – in 1911, when a hereditary miner, at least in the 3rd generation, suddenly hears a voice predicting his art future. The voice predicted him a change of occupations. The man who heard the voice of a new path – was Lesage (August 9, 1876 – February 21, 1954).
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