Art Kaleidoscope

Dri Ilustre Illustrations. Young and handsome Filipino artist, designer and poet Dri Ilustre has created a very colorful illustrations of famous people. In the inspirational gallery of Dri Ilustre portraits of the most iconic people of the XX century – Ernesto ‘Che’ Guevara, John Lennon, Audrey Hepburn, Freddie Mercury, Bruce Lee, Frida Kahlo, Bob Marley, Kurt Cobain, Michael Jackson, Andy Warhol, Sylvester Stallone, and many others. This series of portraits of celebrities are painted in the style of digital cubism. In his works he uses mostly red, blue and yellow colors. Filipino illustrator Dri Ilustre asks a philosophical question – “How can you just be’ yourself’ when you do not know who you are?”
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Hibernal portrait. White ink and colored fine liners on black paper. Painting by Romanian artist Rosu-Gutman Daniel. Rosu-Gutman Danịel is a talented innovative artist, besides it takes him up to several months to create one painting. Every line is made with white ink, individually colored (a few times). Bucharest based artist Rosu-Gutman Daniel paints landscapes in the style of impressionism and pointillism. At the same time he has his own unique style. He shares his art on deviantart website. Romanian painter Rosu-Gutman Daniel was born March 27, 1981.
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American artist Michael Gregory was born in Los Angeles in 1955. Michael Gregory paints photo-realistic landscapes that are composed of different buildings and places, collected and re-created by him in the studio. Unlike traditional paintings, painted in the open air, his works are primarily the scenery in which the human drama is played out. His richly detailed oil landscapes are highly realistic, though painted from imagination and memory. While he paints from his imagination, his landscapes often appear true to life and rich in detail. Michael Gregory is known for his luminous use of color and characteristically limited palette of whites. Michael Gregory lives and works in Bolinas, California
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Anna Halldin Maule hyper realistic oil painting. These hyper realistic oil paintings were created by the talented duo of artists husband and wife Tom Maule and Anna Halldin Maule. With incredible attention to detail, they draw amazingly beautiful female portraits. Swedish artist Anna Halldin Maule was born on January 6, 1972 in Gothenburg, Sweden, and her husband Tom was born in Hawaii in 1970. They have been married since 2002 and form a unique partnership of love and creativity. The couple live on the Hawaiian island of Kauai.
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English artist Gary Bunt was born in 1957, in the village of East Peckham, Kent. He studied at Hugh Christie Secondary from 1967 to 1972, and never got a special artistic education. According to his biography Gary Bunt is a self-taught artist. Gary Bunt is inspired by the artworks of Christopher Wood, Ben Nicholson, Winifred Nicholson, Alan Lowndes, Mary Fedden, Mary Newcombe, and many more. The naive paintings by a talented British artist were exhibited at 2008 Art London, 2009 Portland Gallery, 2009 Art London, 2010, 2012, 2013 Portland Gallery. His forthcoming exhibition will be in 2015 in Portland Gallery. His Naive Art paintings are in Thomas Corum Foundation, Warwick Museum, and in private collections.
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Russian painter Arkady Rylov
Born on the way, when his parents went to Vyatka, Arkady Rylov grew in the village of Vyatka province (now Kirov region). His father suffered severe emotional disorder, so the boy was brought up in a family of his stepfather, who served as a notary in Vyatka. The future artist grew up in the natural environment, to which he later devoted many paintings. His childhood and youth were spent in the north, on the bank of a wide river. A beautiful land of forests, lakes and rivers captured the artist. Rylov passionately loved nature all his life and spent days wandering through forests and meadows. He used to sit for hours by the water, watching the ducks or for a long time to follow the fluffy squirrel.
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