Painting

India Folk painting

A Decorated Tree. Folk painting on hand-made paper. Artist Vibhuti, Village of Madhubani (Bihar)
A Decorated Tree. India Folk painting. Hand-made paper. Artist Vibhuti, Village of Madhubani (Bihar)

The ancient art of folk painting is a living tradition still existing in India. India Folk painting can be divided into two types: executed on ritual occasions devoted to a deity, and the narrative themes from the ancient Indian epics. An enormous stylistic range is evident among the traditions and types of Indian folk painting – from bare essential contours to painstaking, miniature-like rendering of details to the precise, geometrized figural abstractions reminiscent of India’s prehistoric painting. Indian folk painting captures the amazing spectra of the eternal tradition of Indian folk art, and provides a framework for understanding its motives and iconography. Folk Paintings show the evolution of a tradition and even the contrasts within it, made in a beautiful visual form.
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Applied Art

Paper quilling art by Yulia Brodskaya

Gypsy. Paper quilling art by Yulia Brodskaya
Gypsy. Paper quilling art by Yulia Brodskaya

Paper quilling art by Yulia Brodskaya

The talent of Russian born paper artist Yulia Brodskaya (1983), who now lives in London, is certainly much more in demand abroad than at home. Yulia engaged in several kinds of handmade art, but most of her time she devotes to creating unique three-dimensional paper illustrations. According to Julia, paper always held a special fascination for her. “I’ve tried many deferent methods and techniques of working with it, until I found the way that has turned out to be ‘the one’ for me: now I draw with paper instead of on it”, Brodskaya states. Yulia worked with many large companies, such as: Starbucks, Nokia, Godiva, Target, Sephora, New York Times magazine, and many others (more than 100 projects over the 5 years). Up until 2004 Yulia worked in Moscow, engaged in office design. After she had graduated from the University with the diploma in Graphics and Communication, she left the country.
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Nature Painting

Feather painting by Jamie Homeister

Amazon Parrot. Feather painting by Jamie Homeister
Amazon Parrot. Feather painting by Jamie Homeister

American self-taught artist Jamie Homeister was born in California but grew up in Canada. She started painting birds and wild animals on feathers just in 2010. Her art is inspired by Native American culture and her own Canadian heritage. Lots of her parrot-feather paintings depict the parrots from whom the feathers themselves fell, the artist says. Very often Jamie Homeister receives the feathers from the people who commission her to paint images of their birds. Naturalist at heart, she finds feather-work to be an incredibly humbling media. “The feathers splice, buckle, splinter and shed under the weight of paint.” Jamie Homeister has always been intrigued by the “lifestyles of all those who walked this Earth before us”, so feather painting has always made sense to Jamie Homeister.
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Painting

American artists Paul Roden and Valerie Lueth

American artists Paul Roden and Valerie Lueth
America the beautiful. 2009. Color Woodcut Print on Ivory Somerset Paper. Artwork by Pittsburgh based artists Paul Roden and Valerie Lueth

American artists Paul Roden and Valerie Lueth have been working together for eight years. Pittsburgh team of artists are known as Tugboat Printshop, specializing in woodcut fine art print editions of beautiful landscapes. To make the woodcut prints, the artists carve their images (drawn by just the two of them) in low relief on blocks of birch plywood. After the blocks have been carved, they are rolled up with ink and printed onto archival fine paper to create the finished artworks. Paper is placed on the inky woodcut surface and the paper & block are sent together through the press. The prints are authentic, handmade start-to-finish. The woodblock is used to make limited edition color prints. The creative artists hope that their woodcuts will provide pleasure, inspiration, and new ways of thinking about the world.

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Sculpture

Beautiful virgin goddess Artemis in art

Artemis with a hind, or Diana of Versailles, a Roman marble copy of a Greek original by Leochares, Greek sculptor from Athens
Beautiful virgin goddess Artemis in art. Artemis with a hind, or Diana of Versailles, a Roman marble copy of a Greek original by Leochares, Greek sculptor from Athens

Beautiful virgin goddess Artemis in art
Eternally young, beautiful goddess was born on Delos at the same time with her brother, the golden-haired Apollo. They are twins. The most sincere love, the most intimate friendship connect brother and sister. The same deeply they love their mother Latona. Artemis gives life to everyone. She takes care of all that lives on earth and grows in the forest and in the field, cares about wild animals, herds of livestock and people. She causes the growth of grass, flowers and trees, she blesses the birth, wedding and marriage. Greek women bring rich sacrifices to the glorious daughter of Zeus Artemis, who blesses and gives happiness in marriage, heals, and sends the disease.
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Painting

American artist Jules Guerin

University of New York. Painting by American artist Jules Guerin (November 18, 1866 – June 14, 1946)
University of New York. Painting by American artist Jules Guerin (November 18, 1866 – June 14, 1946)

American artist Jules Guerin was born in St Louis, Missouri on November 18, 1866. At the age of 14 he went to Chicago to study art. While studying he supported himself painting scenery backdrops and fire curtains for theaters. After Chicago Jules Guerin moved to Paris, where he continued studying art. Traveling throughout Europe, he began illustrating books, painting exotic places and people living there. Jules Guerin worked in watercolor, gouache, and tempera, usually on colored board. He successfully exhibited his paintings in the Paris Exposition of 1900, Pan American Exposition in 1901, the Lewis and Clark Exposition, 1905.
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Jewelry Miniature Sculpture

Jewelry art message by Rebecca Rose

Planetary Ring. Jewelry art message by Rebecca Rose
Planetary Ring. Jewelry art message by Rebecca Rose

Jewelry art message by Rebecca Rose. American sculptor and jewelry artist Rebecca Rose creates miniature wearable art – finger rings representing world events or social issues. Rose’s sculptured finger rings called ‘Sculpturings’ are cast in precious metals – gold, silver and bronze. Each ring is displayed in a hand blown glass cloche dome and is elevated by an engraved base and armature to appear as if the ring is floating in mid air. Rose’s definition of the Sculpturing: “an artistic collection of small sculpture on a mobile scale for fingers, with the intent to combine current social issues artistically represented in a physical sculptural form”.
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