Robert Carter is an award-winning illustrator. He was born in St. Albans, England, and moved to Ontario, Canada, at an early age. Robert combines a strong foundation in portraiture with a unique sense of visual and conceptual problem-solving to create striking, vibrant, and textured illustrations and portraits with subjects ranging from the realistic to the surreal. Robert now lives and works as a freelance illustrator in Baden, Ontario, Canada.

Award-winning illustrator Robert Carter has expressively illustrated all types of themes from adolescent depression to the current socioeconomic crisis. His work has been printed in editorial spreads of magazines such as Harvard Business, Inhouse, Grip, The American Legion, The Artist’s, and more.

Robert Carter

Jorge Rodríguez-Gerada is a Cuban American contemporary artist.

He is a founder of the New York Culture Jamming movement and an innovator in the international urban art scene. Since the late 90´s he has been replacing the faces of cultural icons chosen by advertisers with the faces of anonymous people to question the controls imposed on public space, the role models designated and the type of events that are guarded by the collective memory. Rodríguez-Gerada´s unique direction was mentioned in Naomi Klein´s book No Logo and was a precursor of the use of anonymous portraits now common in street art. His spectacular interventions are created for the sake of bringing awareness to relevant social issues. His large scale time base works avoid negative impact on the environment, challenge the conformity in contemporary art and allow for a reflection that goes beyond the completion of the piece to focus in its concept, process, and the metaphor that comes forth because of the material chosen.

Jorge Rodríguez-Gerada

Totally amazing! Twinkling Eyes from the portfolio of Ukrainian artist Pavel Guzenko.

Pavel Guzenko website

Christina Empedocles was born and raised in Ann Arbor, Michigan, earning her BA in Studio Art and Geology from Oberlin College and later her MFA in painting from California College of the Arts. Discovering her love of nature on early morning bird watching trips during elementary school, Empedocles channels that same sense of wonder into her wax pencil drawings of lustrous birds in flight.

Christina Empedocles

Claudio Ethos is a brazilian street artist. Even if his works are made with spray paint and take place on walls, he’s really far from the “traditional” graffiti artists coming from hip-hop culture.

Bogota

Sao Paulo

Ethos Via Unurth

For thousands of years the horse has been mankind’s closest ally. The horse made travel and development possible. We tethered, weighted and reigned them. We captured, stabled and trained them.

Ever willing, the horse was the magnificent tool of man’s ingenuity. The Horse is a beast of legend, taking on its own character, personality, emotion and mythology.
However, with the advent of the steam engine the horse was made obsolete, and now they are resigned to the realm of shows and races, a world of equestrian sport, a mere shadow of the beast’s former glory.

‘All The Wild Horses’ is a tribute to the beast that has made much of what we call life possible. The images are unique and have a style to them reminiscent of the portraiture of the rich and famous. The artist has attempted, and succeeded, to show a sense of personality and emotion – sadness in some cases and pride in others.

Painstakingly lit, this body of work is about the horse itself to which we all feel a connection, whether it’s obvious or deep down in our collective subconscious. There is a sense of awe that this beast inspires in each and everyone of us.

“All the wild horses, tethered with tears in their eyes. May no man’s touch ever tame you, may no man’s reigns ever chain you. And may no man’s weight ever lay freight your soul” ~ Ray Lamontagne

How much time do you spend doodling? Latvia-based artist Alex Konahin spends anywhere from a few dozen hours to a couple of weeks creating his incredibly detailed illustrations. Each piece, made by hand, simply uses black ink, patience, and raw talent. The monochromatic symmetrical designs exhibit a diligent attention to detail in their floral and abstract embellishments. There is even a three-dimensional feel to the works, making them appear as though they are popping out at the viewer.

Alex Konahin on deviantART

One of the best things in the world is to see that your work is appreciated and admired. Ruadh gets plenty of that, because he’s a very talented photographer and digital artist, at the same time.

He has the ability to take what some would consider a simple picture and turn it into something with a deep meaning and rich in visual effects.

I’ve never seen tattoo work like that of the Berlin-based artist Peter Aurisch. He creates surreal worlds that appear to be penciled in instead of inked in.

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“Pencil Vs Camera” mixes drawing and photography, imagination and reality. It’s a new visual concept invented and initiated by Ben Heine in 2010. It’s full of magic, illusion, poetry and surrealism. Ben published his first “Pencil Vs Camera” image in April 2010 but the series is the result of a long graphic exploration and a logic consequence of his personal artistic development. Ben usually integrates an inventive hand made drawing in front of a realistic background.

Ben Heine Pencil Vs Camera!

Liqen sent over some photos of his newest mural painted in the Xanenetla delbarrio, a suburb city of Puebla, Mexico. The Spanish artist returned to Mexico after being invited by the “Collective Tomato” to paint a mural in part of revitalization project. He chose to paint the nations staple food corn, creating faces in each kernel to represent the idea of family.

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Fuhrer’s project, The Cosmos, is a set of infographics that depict the planets in our solar system with accurate scale and surface detail for an upcoming documentary and German book.

Mercury

Venus

Earth

Mars

Jupiter

Saturn

Uranus

Neptune

The Moon

Inner Solar System

Outer Solar System

SIZES

David Fuhrer’s website

Melissa Hartley is an artist, graphic designer, cat lover, tea drinker, Francophile, movie and music lover with a terrible sweet tooth. She graduated from the University of Western Sydney with a BA (Distinction) in design, minor in illustration.

Her compositions vary from simple still-life studies, to confrontation figures against undefined backgrounds, in a dream-like state. Others highlight the turbulent relationship man has with nature. Each subject is attractive yet somehow disturbing.

She desires to create images of beauty and mystery that allow the viewer to find their own personal significance in them.

She lives in Sydney with her husband and two cats, Ludwig and Wolfgang.

Melissa Hartley

Photographer Juliette Bates fascination with aerial animals including various breeds of birds, insects, and butterflies. Even aquatic and land dwelling creatures make appearances in this fascinating series titled Histoires Naturelles, translated asNatural History. There is a somber mood and passage of time reflected in these works that rely heavily on blue and gray overtones. The color scheme echoes the presence of mortality. Despite the recurring themes of death, there is also a glimpse of immortality attached to the images. By encasing a bird in glass, the creature doesn’t disappear and disintegrate into history. It is preserved, not too different from taxidermy.

Juliette Bates website

1. Kill a few flies.
2. Put them in the sun to dry for one hour.
3. Once they are dry, pick up a pencil and paper… Let your imagination flow.

Here are a few examples….

I recently came across the photos of Nicholas Alan Cope and was STUNNED when I came across this collaboration he did with Dustin Arnold. The images are part of a series called Stamen, which reminds me of the look and feel of Ridley Scott’s epic fantasy film, Legend. I’m not quite sure how the collaborators capture these, but the images kind of seem likey were taken underwater, which is where the gloom and bits of detritus floating around may come from. I can’t possibly implore you more to check out the rest of this series.

Artist Emma Uber has an incredible knack for paintings faces. Her series of pastel portraits involves beautifully detailed—and mainly feminine—faces that blend into backgrounds filled with thick, vibrant strokes, drips and smears of paint, and bursts of colorful shapes and flowers. Her use of a strong color palette and aggressive strokes, set against the soft features and expressionless faces, sparks an intense curiosity about each of her subjects.

Emma Uber’s website

Google fans hope the Internet search leader’s proposed augmented reality glasses are more reality than hype, even if history shows companies are more often releasing videos touting technology that may take years to actually come to life.

Google released a concept video, titled “Project Glass: One day…,” on April 4 in which a man only using his voice and other inputs does things commonly handled by smartphones, such as scheduling meetings, taking pictures, checking the weather, getting directions, and placing a video call. The difference is instead of having to hold a device in your hand, the data you need hovers in your field of view.

Project Glass on Google+
via [Laughing Squid]

“I paint what I sees – in the urban environment, in the media and in the people of the city that I love.”

Working from his London studio, he finds an exciting dynamic in the contradictory relationship between the glamorous pop images and the raw, unrefined urban context in which such icons are celebrated.  The point of his work is to reduce the silhouette to its most elegant and minimal, while simultaneously embellishing its energy, depth and texture.  The process is as symbolic as it is aesthetic.

Mixed medium on canvas 100cm X 70cm

Lost In A Memory

Under a Golden Sun / Collaboration with Fin Dac

Debbie

Joan

Ma O Shishu

Bastille

Is Anyone Going To Say Anything?
2011
100cm X 100cm
Mixed Medium on Canvas

Olivia / See No Evil 2011

Time May Tell / 122cm X 91cm emulsion,spray paint, acrylic, ink and charcol on canvas

Charlie Burns