Artblog

Miniature Painting

Miniature watercolor painting by Lorraine Loots

16.09.201422.03.2020

Miniature watercolor painting by Lorraine Loots
Talented miniaturist artist Lorraine Loots lives in Cape Town, South Africa. On 1 January 2013 she launched her project “365 Postcards for Ants” aiming to create one miniature painting a day during a year. Every day, Lorraine painted any object: a book, a toy, plant, an animal, a bird, etc. and posted the completed picture online. 365 Astonishly detailed miniature painting which could easily be mistaken for photographs appeared at the exhibition in Cape Town and Johannesburg, South Africa in January 2014.
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Mosaics Painting Sculpture

Bullet art by David Palmer

15.09.201422.03.2020

Bullet art by David Palmer
‘American Legacy’ highlights the significance of arms in America, both historically, militarily and individually. In reverence to Liberty, it acknowledges the necessity of arms to defend it, while questioning the many military actions waged in its name.
Meanwhile, American contemporary artist, 60-year-old California resident David Palmer has created a gallery of portraits of celebrities from unusual medium – bullet shells. Noteworthy, he depicts mostly the famous people who died from gunshot wounds – John Lennon, Abraham Lincoln and John F. Kennedy. First, after collecting enough bullet casings, the artist puts them together to create a metal canvas. Next, using a small hand torch darkens the ends of the bullet casings, creating incredibly detailed portraits. And the result is stunning – using such a seemingly inappropriate art medium like bullets, he depicts their victims. According to Palmer, he hopes viewers will “see the miracles that can arise from choosing to create rather than destroy.”
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Applied Art

Embroidered dance by Jose Romussi

15.09.201429.07.2022

Embroidered dance by Jose Romussi
Landscape designer by education, Chilean artist Romussi has become known for his embroidered prints and collages. This series of thread art features vintage ballet dancers of the Ballets Russes, who were real stars of the time. In particular, Anna Pavlova, Vaslav Nijinsky, Alla Shelest, Tamara Karsavina, Olga Spessivtseva, Diana Gould, Susie Presley, and Diana Adams.
Inspired by vintage black & white photographs, Romussi uses them as the base for stitching colorful thread lines to the picture, thus giving the old costumes a new vision. Since 2011 the self-taught visual artist Romussi lives and works in Berlin.
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Sculpture

Ceramic sculpture by Katharine Morling

14.09.201422.03.2020

Ceramic sculpture by Katharine Morling
At first glance ceramic sculpture created by Katharine looks like drawings on paper. According to the British artist Morling, her original sculptures are 3 dimensional drawings, in the medium of ceramics.
Katharine set up her first studio in London in 2003 and since then an award-winning artist has gained international acclaim for her work. The Stilted Life installation featured in this post won the main prizes at The World Crafts Council, Second European Triennial of Ceramics and Glass 2010, and at Cheongju International Craft Biennale, Korea in 2011. Noteworthy, Katharine has been suffering from dyslexia since childhood. Dyslexia does not allow the artist to properly read and write, so she dedicates time to creativity, which has become an important form of her dialogue with the world.
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Painting

Delicate Watercolors by Silvia Molinari

14.09.201422.03.2020

Delicate Watercolors by Silvia Molinari
Italian artist Molinari lives in Fiorenzuola d’Arda (Piacenza, Italy), a country between the plains and the Piacenza hills, in a house surrounded by picturesque fields. Silvia’s artistic career includes the study and testing of the various techniques of painting, but it is perhaps through the watercolor minimalism she best expresses her talent. The combination of the simplest elements (water, pigment and graphite on paper), are the graphic signs of Silvia, and her favorite motifs – shrubs, leaves, flowers and plant fragments that seem to have slipped a moment before appearing on the paper.
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Applied Art

Myriam Dion paper lace curtains

14.09.201428.07.2022

Myriam Dion paper lace curtains
Using such a prosaic material as the front pages of daily newspapers, Canadian paper artist Dion creates fabulous works of art. In particular, with the help of a sharp blade and imagination, she turns newspapers into the magic patterned fabrics. Miriam graduated from the Department of Fine Arts and Design, University of Quebec with MA in Visual and Media Arts in 2014. Working with old editions of the newspapers «Financial Times», «The International Herald Tribune» and «Le Devoir», she carves out intricate paper resembling antique lace patterns. Fastened in the web that can cover an entire wall, the newspapers are similar to samples of complex design textiles.
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Architecture Mosaics

Mosaic stairs Tiled Steps

14.09.201422.06.2018

Mosaic stairs Tiled Steps
Launched in August 2005 unique art project by mosaic artist Colette Crutcher and Irish ceramist Aileen Barr – ‘Tiled Steps’ in San Francisco has become known worldwide. Neither urban event or a concert or wedding is complete without a visit the intersection of 16th Ave. and Moraga. In fact, Mosaic Tiled Steps staircase has 163 steps, decorated with hand-made 2,000 ceramic tiles. Decorated with 75,000 pieces of multicolored mosaic, glass and mirrors, it’s a huge colorful mural. The picture of the mosaic in particular, shows the underwater and Earth life with the inhabitants of the seas and rivers, forests and deserts. Also, feathered inhabitants of the planet, flowers, trees and grasses, as well as celestial bodies, stars and constellations of our galaxy.
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