The colour green has long been associated with nature, growth, and vitality. The use of the colour green in Roland Moreau's "Nu Vert", which translates to Green Nude, is particularly effective, creating a sense of vibrancy and energy. The reclining pose of the woman however also creates a sense of calm and relaxation. If I let my imagination run wild,…
For years all I wanted was to disappear. I wanted it so badly. To be forgotten entirely. Now that the world has paused, I sit on my bed, curtains closed. Everything has stopped. I have stopped. Stopped talking to people. Stopped going for walks. Stopped going to concerts. Stopped seeing friends. Stopped leaving the house altogether. Now I am not…
"I can't breathe. They're going to kill me." Those were George Floyd's last words. The death of the 46-year-old African American who died in Minneapolis after police officers handcuffed and immobilized him, placing his knee on his neck for more than 8 minutes, sparked a wave of outrage worldwide. Thousands of protesters took to the streets in cities across the…
Sara Shakeel, who was once a dentist, is now an award-winning crystal and visual artist. Sara adds a little extra sparkle to the world with her dazzling designs. She is well known on Instagram for her glitter stretch mark art and images, but in the current global situation she has turned her attention to adding some beauty to the hardship…
Everything can be made out of pizza in Cahill Wessel's trippy world. The illustrations of the Oakland-based artist will take you down a hallucinogenic and multicolored journey filled with unusual juxtapositions, where skulls and giant burger coexist creating a humorous and strange vision of heaven and hell.
James Springall is a London-based artist who likes to combine things to create ambiguous and unsettling images. In the series "In The End All Things Will Be Known," Springall juxtaposes fortune cookie messages to vintage images in a way that will make you laugh, smile, cry, think deeply or scratch your head in confusion. So is happiness a fortune cookie? In spite…
Argentinian Artist, Julian Landini can transform an art piece into something possible with only colored pencils, a couple of pens and watercolor. You can see his transformation and his many subjects that are either controversial or very thrill seeking. His illustrations are an actual representation of beauty. His subjects are never objectified but rather glorified as independent and different. This…
"Be worried. Be very worried," says the last page of Matthieu Bourel's travel book, a journal of scanned collages. It sums up the general vibe you get flicking through the digital pages of the cover's promised sabbatical. His book takes the viewer on a journey to distant countries, fully displaying the anxieties and difficulties that come with traveling to places…
Drew Young presents a tipsy, tumbling world of youth in moments of both chaos and repose with his moody paintings. They sometimes contain elements of glitch art that feel incredibly natural and necessary to understand the scenes he portrays, like the viewer is meant to be watching the paused revelry through a broken window. These visual stories are carved out…