The back -to-basics visual trickery of HuskMitNavn’s ingenious paper based illusions and illustrations will delight and amuse. Wielding a pen, paper and a cheeky sense of humour, Copenhagen-based artist HuskMitNavn creates funny and often satirical works of paper art. They’re works that have made him somewhat of an Instagram favourite, with over 88k followers showing a lot …
Thijme Termaat’s mesmerising, epic and ingeniously inventive ‘I Paint’ time-lapse video took over two years to create and animate. Over it’s perfectly soundtracked and utterly compelling three minutes, ‘I Paint’, journeys through the intimate aesthetic and precise workflow of Dutch painter Thijme Termaan. Through clever photography that appears to bend time and playful editing, the living journal stitches …
Behind Blake Paul Neubert’s apparently straightforward portraits sits an insanely Creepy twist that he masterfully reveals. Blake Neubert is the kind of artist that loves to play with his and audience and makes the art of creepineess look easy. At first, his work appears to be pretty mundane – depicting pop culture icons at their most benign. But …
Wielding nothing but the retro toy, Jane Labowitch creates one-line, monochrome masterpieces under the apt moniker Princess Etch A Sketch. The Chicago-based Etch A Sketch artist makes working with the notoriously frustrating medium look super easy. With the retro tech, she renders the complexities of classic paintings, the pixelated aesthetic of pokemon and the idiosyncrasies of famous …
Playfully deceptive footage of Artist Howard Lee’s mindbogglingly realistic drawings has racked up a tonne of views – confusing and confounding millions. Multidisciplinary, British artist Howard Lee deals in the art of illusion, trickery and playful deception through his now viral videos. Wielding markers, prismacolor pencils and acrylic paints, he puts together near-photorealistic renderings of ordinary, everyday …
A beautifully presented, made-to-order bookplate – or ex-librīs – series, featuring personalised graphic marks, emblems and symbols. Bookplates, sometimes refereed to as ex-librīs (Latin, “from the books of…”) are small print or decorative labels pasted into a book, often on the inside front cover, to indicate it’s ownership. Oftentimes they take on a simple or generic …
We’ve put together some Hand-Drawn Nature-Themed Illustrations by Sam Larson. His travel, and adventure-themed ink illustrations, drawn by hand, are astonishingly pretty and playfully cute. Portland, Oregon-based illustrator Sam Larson lovingly depicts adventure iconography, forests, wildlife and mountains in his wonderfully detailed work. The homemade, rustic aesthetic sensibility that he draws upon and sometimes-left of field …
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Hannah Jesus captures perfectly framed images of her gorgeous landscape watercolours and pen illustrations against the backdrops that they depict. San Francisco-based art teacher Hannah Jesus employs pen and watercolours to recreate mountains, lakes, waterfalls and flowers in lovingly careful detail before sending them to Instagram framed by the surroundings that inspired them. The cute, sketchbook charm …
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Stunning, hand drawn ink illustrations that play on themes of love, life and death. The illustrations are the work of Alfred Basha, a treviso, Italy-based graphic designer and illustrator. He depicts lovingly intimate scenes – trees merging with wildlife, foxes nestled amongst flowers and couples embracing – via a sketchbook sensibility and wonderfully intricate aesthetic. You can follow Alfred …
