Art Kaleidoscope

Body art project by Valeria Kutsan. Russian stylist, makeup artist and master of body art Valeria Kutsan works in a creative duo with a professional photographer Alexander Khokhlov. Their body art is always surprising and impressive. It seems we’ve seen all about what a painting on the body is and we are no longer surprised by Kandinsky on the back of the girls’ heads or realistic animals on the faces of the models. However, please be assured that if you have never met with the works of Alexander Khokhlov and Valeria Kutsan, you’re going to be surprised at what they do. In this selection of amazing body art works you can meet with an optical illusion that through body painting converted people in paintings of impressionists, expressionists, pop art artists and other members of the avant-garde currents. This body art project is called “2D or not 2D”.
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Realistic animal portraits by Cristina Penescu. Cristina Penescu was born in Bucharest, Romania, 1988. Her family relocated to California when Cristina was огые a year old. Cristina Penescu enjoys painting a wide variety of wildlife subjects, however wild canids, especially wolves, hold a special place in her heart. Cristina creates her beautiful, very realistic portraits of dogs, wolves, tigers, leopards using white clay and ink. Cristina has had no formal art training, so she is a self-taught artist. With her black and white depictions of the natural beauty around us she hopes to inspire the world to pay more attention to the wildlife animal protection. Talented Romanian wildlife artist Cristina Penescu is currently living in California.
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British wildlife artist Gordon Beningfield (1936-1998) was born in London on 31st October 1936. During the Second World War his family moved to rural Hertfordshire, where he stayed for the rest of his life. Gordon began his career at the age of 15, working for Faithcraft in St. Albans. He learned to paint, decorate, sculpt, lay gold leaf and many other crafts related to furnishing and decoration of churches. By attending St. Albans College of Art on day release and evening classes, he pursued his interest in fine art. In the 1960s, he built a reputation as a wildlife artist and in 1974, a television program called “Look Stranger” brought his work to the attention of a larger audience. Gordon’s work first appeared in book “Beningfield’s Butterflies”, followed by “Beningfield’s Countryside” and many more.
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