Pencil Fashion is an exploration in art and design, the theme of Fashionable models always fascinated me and it’s being a long time since I wanted to do something along those lines. I would classify it as a contemporary painting although I really hate doing that….I tried to keep female figure somewhat abstract and stylized but not overdue it and maintain pretty close resemblance to the real human proportions and figurative expressions. I also chose to play with a mirrored image on some of the pieces, somehow it just resonates with the fashion show, cat walk when you see models walking toward the audience and then stop, strike a pose for a few seconds, turn around an leave. I think it is one of the most dramatic moments of the show. With my work I was trying to capture this pretentiously graceful but frozen for a moment look. The over all atmosphere or art space(or simpler background) is not as uniquely different then some of my previous work. I still love the organized chaos of painting that I was developing for a while. In case of Pencil Fashion series, I definitely used bolder design inspired colors. I think some are stronger then other (which is always the case…lol), but I’m very happy with results, this series came easy to me and I love when it happens…. Please see more here.

Oddly cutie and peculiar this art creatures are both intriguing and unusual, definitely unique and even stylish to an extend. Not sure what it all means and what the story behind it, but I definitely like them, in a strangely subjective way… So if someone gets repulsed or ridiculed by looking at them I can also relate to it...maybe for a brief moment….

More artistic awesomeness from UK, Iain MacArthur is as pure of a talent as they come. With most of his work done on in the sketch book with a pencil and watercolor splashes(or at least that is what we think he is using, unless there is a new set of Photoshop brushes/pencils that look totally real...) his work is both sensitive, intuitive, edgy, and timeless in the best meaning of the word.

IKEA Long Live Diversity campaign is a truly outstanding way to not only represent all of the IKEA products (well...,may be most of them) but actually celebrate diversity by clustering lighter color (Usually Birch) finished shelves and tables on one page representing a lighter colored face and clustering darker(mahogany...?) products to represent darker skin faces. Really cool concept, I just hope it will spill from Snow white Sweden into the US were diversity really matter...

Francoise Nielly lives in a world of images.  She has explored the different facets of 'image' all her life, through painting, photography, roughs, illustrations and virtual, computer-generated animated graphics.  It is clear now that painting is her direction and her passion.  She gets her sense of space and construction from her father, who was an architect.  Growing up in the South of France where she lived between Cannes and Saint-Tropez, is never far from the light, the color sense and the atmosphere that permeates the South of France.  This is coupled with her studies at the Beaux arts and Decorative Arts, and her sense of humor and of celebration.

"Françoise Nielly's painting is expressive, exhibiting a brute force; a fascinating vital energy.  Oil and knife combine to sculpt her images from a material that is, at the same time, biting and incisive; charnel and sensual. "Whether she paints the human body or portraits, the artist takes a risk:  her painting is sexual, her colors free, exuberant, surprising, even explosive, the cut of her knife incisive, her color pallet dazzling.

"Françoise Nielly is a passionate woman who loves life, wide open spaces, sushi, blue lagoons, the Internet, humor,  books, Paris, New York and Vancouver. "Resolutely inscribed in her epoch, she is an accomplished artist; 20 years of artistic expression explain the maturity of her work and the perfect mastery of her art. "She lives and paints in Paris near Montmartre; shows and sells her work in Europe, in Canada and in the United States

Stunning use of watercolor combined with black graphic ink creates a true contrast between normally very opposite medias, nevertheless  Vicenzi makes it perfectly complimentary of each other....Simply outstanding. I almost wish I could find at least something wrong with them...oh well disappointments is nothing I have to get used to....awesome work. [via behance]

A unique combination of traditional oil on canvas and photography combined on a single canvas is a true exploration and celebration of modern and classic technique. “Even though artists employ variety of tools available to them today creating art most of the modern artists choose to focus on one media as a final product of their creative process, I choose to combine them in one were I integrate first digitally processed photography printed on canvas and later painting with oils and acrylics on top of that canvas” explains Nax.  The final outcome is an art work that can be truly called contemporary painting taking the best of two worlds and blending them into one.

Rich in textures, layers and colors “Inspiration” is a beautiful emotional art work that projects and contrasts human emotions not only through figurative expression but also through organized and “dark” background. Mysterious and bordering dangerous this art work has many layers perception.  

We are proudly represent you amazing paintings by Paul Roberts. Paul Roberts’ paintings have been described as "dreams made uncomfortably a little real". At the heart of his work is always the desire to create energy on the canvas - to draw the viewer into a fragmentary still of a world that is between realities.