Andre Kohn is a figure painter whose style is described as figurative impressionist. Painter demonstrates his skill and acute eye for detail in this imaginative, poignant gallery. Today, Kohn is a prominent leader of Figurative Impressionism, which seeks to portray a subject’s personality through her or his unique movements, bearing and posture. “Without depicting life literally,” the artist explains on his website, “I seek a poetic interpretation of a moment involving the human figure in its infinite variety of gesture and form.” Take a look!
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Today we want to show you beautiful portrait paintings by UK based painter Danny O’Connor (aka DOC). "Concentrating mainly on figurative and portrait subject matter, his influences include comic books, graffiti, illustration, and character design. With a strong graphic element visible in his work, O’Connor uses a wide range of media including acrylics, spray paint, ink, paint markers, and household gloss and emulsions. O’Connor has exhibited alongside some of the worlds leading Urban artists such as Banksy and Adam Neate as well as other gallery shows across the UK."
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Continuing theme of realistic paintings – Romantic Paintings by Rob Hefferan and Paintings by Paul Roberts – we want to show you beautiful hyper-realistic paintings of incredible talented Mexican artist Omar Ortiz. Omar paints in oil and the main element of his paintings are the human figure, mostly nude women. Another feature of Omar is his minimalist style. He often features only three elements: a white setting, a human figure, and some strategically draped fabric. Take a look at these surprisingly exquisite hyper-realistic artworks! You will enjoy!
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It becomes more and more popular to mix past and present and add a little celebrity. Do you remember Celebrities in the Renaissance that we’ve shown you some time ago? This time we’ll show you celebrities in the uniform of Russian generals. English portrait artists George Dawe painted 329 portraits of Russian generals active during Napoleon’s invasion of Russia for the Military Gallery of the Winter Palace, Saint Petersburg, Russia. And Steve Payne digital copies of these painting and Photoshop creates portraits of his friends, family and celebrities. Today’s post will show you some examples of his work. Have fun!
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Today we want to show you stunning watercolor paintings of Greece created by artist Pantelis Zografos. For 30 years Pantelis Zografos doesn’t live in Greece, but love to Greece and artist’s talent day-to-day call him to the canvas and paint, and there, in his studio, he paints watercolor Greece. The warm sea, ancient history, little old houses and streets lined with pavement … And the riot of greenery and flowers.
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Created by London based artist Jonathan Wateridge “Crash Series” consist of seven huge (up to 2m x 3m) oil paintings depicting scenes of crashed air planes and ships. Extremely realistic paintings show dramatic contrast of live nature and dead mechanisms. After reviewing the masterpices the only one thought come to mind “why so few?”….
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Today we want to blow your mind with the following experiment. Let’s imagine that now is the Renaissance. How would look celebrities in the Renaissance? Artists from creative website worth1000.com have tried “to catch the moment” and show us famous paintings but with modern celebrities in the main roles. All these new characters are without celebrity plastic surgery and some of them look very natural in their new roles. Check them out!
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In art works of Kal Gajoum you can feel warmth and energy, which is often overlooked by contemporary artists. His paintings are both modern and traditional, powerful and delicate, complex and simple. Kal Gajoum is a real colorist whose works fill the room with light. And, it’s probably not just because the artist is well mastered the technique of painting. He really loves his job – and each work radiates this love. And vivid scenes of street life filled with red umbrellas have become a hallmark of the artist.
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