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]]>Another major draw of her works is that artists rarely opt to create watercolor paintings on big canvases. Pulcho admits that the process can be quite challenging since she needs to work fast in order to get the best results.
Speaking about her decision to make flowers the main subject of her works, Pulcho says that her goal is to bring some beauty and inspiration to the world.
“I like florals for their esthetics,” she shared in a recent interview. “There is enough ugliness in the world and I believe that my paintings can bring something beautiful and inspiring to other peoples life. I also love to paint watercolor portraits, but I do this really rarely.”
Pulcho, who is currently based in Florence, Italy, regularly shares her newest works on social media. Check out more of them below.
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]]>Now based between New York City and Santa Fe, New Mexico, her work still draws upon her early inspirations. Nature, and more particularly flowers, are a constant theme in her work. But living in New York, her work also draws from New York City runways and fashion magazines, a unique cocktail of flora and fashion.
While she initially worked as an apparel designer, it wasn’t long before her fanciful watercolors caught the attention of high-end designers such as Cartier, Valentino, and Swarovski. Her work has also appeared in Harper’s Bazaar, Vanity Fair, Glamour Magazine, Elle Magazine, and The New York Times. She is often commissioned by designers to illustrate their designs to give them a more natural, flowing look.
“My work has evolved over the years, but the figures within my work are often a bit abstract,” she relayed in an interview with Impakter. “I try to keep them as simple as possible. I believe there’s something interesting where my viewer can look at my work and fill in the details in their own way.”
Inspirations include ballet, music, quiet moments, and mystery. But when in doubt she always returns to her garden. “To be honest, it surprised me how much I started to care about the plants (and the fact that they flourished under my once black thumb), and how much they became a part of my life,” she described once in a post about her love of gardening. “Somewhere in that time, they inspired me to create artwork that felt like this little garden of mine. Something unkempt but peaceful. Something that could bloom and grow.”
And while her personal work is more flowing and stems from within, she admits that working with fashion brands can be trickier. “It’s a challenge I enjoy to create something that speaks my style and vision, but also speaks for the brand’s vision. There’s a fine line between too little creative direction and too much. It can be tricky!”, says Rodgers.
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Сегодня я в образе задумчивой испанки кисти великого австрийского портретиста ХIX века. Фон – чёрное пончо, светлые пятно – сетчатый шарфик. На мне надето голубое покрывало, мамина чёрная шаль шантильи, белая блузка браслет к и цепочка с подвеской схожие. Розочка с листиками сделана из небольших кусочков атласных упаковочных лент. Всё-всё делаю сама и фотографирую себя на телефон 
no photoshop #эрмитаждома #hermitageathome #museumathome #artathome #artinquarantine #tussenkunstenquarantaine #artchallenge #изоизоляция #искусствобезграниц #люблюискусство #gettychallenge #арт #art #betweenartandquarantine #tobeamuse #faces_and_style #ривгош_вдохновение #cosplayart #culturetrip #cultures #испания #museumseveryday #portrait #spanish #spanishart #spanishwoman #museodelprado #lockdown #covid_19Yukhnyova is very passionate about art and has a degree in art history, so she became extremely dedicated to this project. Her initial plan was to participate in the challenge for 30 days. However, she ended up having so much fun that she extended the project for an entire year.
Я очень воодушевлена предстоящей серией 
Постараюсь отобразить многообразие русских типов и познакомить с творчеством значимых художников. Нам с вами предстоит много открытий 
Одеянием мне служит платье схожей расцветки, весь жемчуг, что есть дома, на меня надет. Серьги и бант постаралась подобрать схожие. А вот головной убор снова сделан мудрено: золотая тюбитейка, обернута кремовым, но немного прозрачным платком, поверх прикреплена свадебная корона сестры. Всё-всё делаю сама из подручных материалов (и большого количества булавок 
) и фотографирую себя на телефон “One of my goals is enlightening people when they compare my photos with paintings. I want to highlight great paintings from different cultural traditions and show people that they are much closer to them than it seems. My replicas encourage everyone to look at the paintings in detail, I think it’s important,” she to My Modern Met.
So far Liza has recreated more than 150 paintings from different areas and genres and it seem like she’s getting better at it every day. It’s important to mention that all of her creations are made entirely with simple household items, and without the use of Photoshop, so Yukhnyova has to be very creative to stay on top of her game.
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]]>“The work draws on journeys I have made to specific destinations around the world,” shared Townsend in an interview with Jackson’s Art. These places share a common type of geology. “They are places where the land is stark and exposed, unfertile, remote and even hostile,” she says, adding that she can’t easily explain why she’s attracted to them, but they are captivating and seem to energize her.
#painting #landscapepainting #mountains #mountainpainting #oilonpanel #artoninstagram #contemporarypaintingHer paintings draw on solitary journeys through many of the most remote and hostile landscapes in the world, with recent works inspired by visits to Kashmir and Kyrgyzstan. The finished product presents a view of the world beyond the familiar, of places vast in scale, apparently desolate and mostly uninhabited. According to Townsend, an increasing part of the documentation process is the exploration of human impacts on even the remotest physical environments. “There are two main curiosities in the work,” she notes, “that of the very formal qualities of the land; how it is in terms of its physical attributes, and, how that basic formal physicality registers and filters through me.”
Each painting originates from an expedition or a residency. She produces small works on site using a collapsible easel, sketchbooks and photography, building up larger canvases in her London studio. “I travel with a basic lightweight kit (oils or acrylics depending on practicality) and a small easel, pencils, charcoals, and a camera,” she notes. “Sometimes these small works succeed in their own right and sometimes they become the backbone of studio work.”
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]]>“I would say my practice is project-based,” she shared with Jackson’s Art, “but honestly, I tend to ascribe to the ‘I’ll paint what I want, when I want’ attitude. If a subject captivates me, or I think of a composition, I’ll go with it.”
According to Gray, her sources of inspiration are vast, with primary influences including her environment, landscapes, and life experiences. But while her subjects and influences vary, her tools tend to be relatively simple. Sticking to oil paint, her toolbox includes brushes, palette knives, and a field easel.
“I’m of the opinion that painting and drawing are fundamentally the same thing,” says Gray. “Oil paint is the material I sketch with most naturally for landscapes, but for figures I favor dry media. After working in acrylic as a teenager, I switched to oil. The vibrancy of the colors in oil and the texture was inimitable and I never went back. I just discovered an affinity with it and find it so versatile.”
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Reposted from @beeppainting – #paintersinwales #26 @tessgrayfineart www.tessgray185.wixsite.com Tess Gray is an artist born in South Wales and currently based in Cardiff. Studies from life, automatic sketching, photography and found images are used in the process to create paintings and often stand as finished works in themselves. ‘I create images to represent ideas, moments and impressions as opposed to producing a personal style in which to place concept and message. Idiosyncrasies remain with a love of romanticism and narratives of myth, magic and absurdity. I create images offering reflection of human experiences, from the mysterious and fantastic to the insufferably banal, most often in that place where those extremities become each other’. #contemporarypainting #painting #welshpainter #paintbritain #celfcymru #cardiffartist #paint #art #artistsoninstagram #beep2020 – #regrann #guthealthThe post Tess Gray’s Oil Paintings Blend the Real with the Surreal appeared first on TettyBetty.
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]]>It’s this contradiction that makes her illustrations stand out, attracting 195k fans on Instagram and counting. According to Liu-Wong, her work draws inspiration from a rich variety of sources, both low-brow and high-brow. Amongst her sources of inspiration, she counts American folk art, Japanese wood block prints, Chinese pottery, and the Surrealist movement, as well as Nickelodeon cartoons.
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Born in San Francisco to a Chinese American household, Liu-Wong studied illustration at Pratt Institute and is currently based in Los Angeles. “The incredible graphic quality of Japanese woodblock prints (especially Shunga) are particularly inspirational to me and I love the beautiful intricacies of Chinese vases,” she mentioned in an interview with Studio Cult. “And while we’re talking about Asian art and artists, the photography of Nobuyoshi Araki is a big current influence.”
“When I first applied to art school, I was doing pen and ink drawings of engines and I was wary of painting or even using color,” she notes. “In school, I was forced out of my comfort zone and challenged to try new things and see new work. Eventually, after a lot of experimenting, you find something that just feels right and you keep exploring it.”
Her experimentation resulted in her signature style that is both unique and startling. Take a look for yourself:
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A Bouquet For My Dear Friend
Friends, like flowers, are one of the things that make life a bit more beautiful
So excited to share all the new work @jillian_evelyn and I have been making for our show “Not A Flower Alone” opening at @coreyhelfordgallery Sept 21st, 7-10pm
#art #painting #detail #dahlia #amaryllis #calliope #muse
#throwback #escapism #simplertimes #offline
OPENING TONIGHT @coreyhelfordgallery from 7-11pm!!! 
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]]>“My works are like a puzzle,” admitted the Russian artist in an interview with Another Fine Mess, “people try to find different recognizable shapes that are mixed with abstract geometry. It could be anything, a man walking with his dog, or a large family waiting for their lunch. There is always a story to be found in my works. I try to show typical situations from a different angle.”
His work entails a process of composition and decomposition — a style that was inspired by constructivism and neo-plasticism. Based on abstract shapes and chromatic variations, Luka’s creative language is also informed by his background in architecture.
Though there’s an overall coherence in his undeciphered language, Luka’s methods and techniques vary and include spray paints, acrylic paints, sculpting, and collage art. Each piece begins with a sketch on paper. It is only when the sketch is done that Luka chooses the technique he prefers for realizing his idea.
The result, though puzzling, is worth looking into.
Edition of 25. Signed and numbered. Silkscreen 4 colors. On Hahnemuhle cotton paper 300 g/m. 60-80 cm. INFO: viavaiproject@gmail.com. #viavaiproject #alexeylukaThe post Alexey Luka’s Abstract Art is Meant to Be Puzzling appeared first on TettyBetty.
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]]>Broom’s love of color takes two distinct shapes: landscape painting and abstract art. Both are loosely based on realistic forms, creating a fantastical universe that’s guided by unknown forces. While her landscape paintings portray a lush, if exaggerated, scenery, providing a rose-tinted view of the natural world, her abstract paintings present a kaleidoscopic interpretation of the world around us.
“My landscapes are very densely layered and a built-up through lengthy over-painting and using a lot of different application techniques,” says Broom. “My abstract paintings are made without any tools or brushes so I have less control over the medium and this is quite a freeing way of working.”
But whatever her subject matter, the end result is open for interpretation. “I hope to make paintings that are beautiful but that also offer a narrative that can be interpreted in different ways,” she notes, “whether it’s personal, or more broadly connected to, for example, environmental concerns.”
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]]>“Something that started almost as an exercise had become my style, which wasn’t actually intended,” she told Jung Katz. “I started painting this way out of a need to learn the basics of painting so that I could one day work in a looser style,” she explained. “So it became a means to an end so to speak and a challenge to see if I could master the techniques of the old masters.”
According to Reiner, what began as a challenge turned into a rigid form of painting that didn’t reflect her thoughts and feelings. Change was inevitable. “I decided that now everything was fair game, photographic source material, appropriation of imagery, using whichever materials, working from the computer screen and so on,” says Reiner. “So I turned around and did the opposite of what I used to do.”
Her experimentational style challenges the restrictions of realism but does so with a wink and a smile. Reiner herself describes her newfound style as “realism tumbles with cubism.” Her mixed-media approach involves appropriating images from magazines and advertising as a visual reference and conjoining these images with art historical elements in collage-like formations.
Her looser style also leaves room for creative interpretation. “What I hope for, is for people to create their own narratives,” says Reiner, “that they hopefully look at the work for more than a glance.”
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#artlyfeBorn in South London in 1994, Yearwood-Dan has a BA in Fine Art Painting from the University of Brighton. Though her techniques developed over time, her subjects and themes tend to center around social issues like class, culture, race, and gender – themes that are also tied to her identity as a young British artist.
“I think that over time my artwork has become a bit more confident and refined via the imagery I use,” she admitted in an interview with Dateagle Art. “Regardless as to whether I’m creating abstract or figurative work, I think I approach each piece with a sense of confidence that steams from the knowing that I’m still learning and growing and if something doesn’t work out that it’s all part of the process towards me making something I’m truly happy with.”
“I think I do sometimes think of that work when I’m feeling moments of self-doubt,” she added, “conscious that interchanging between figurative and abstract may make it hard for people to establish my work as my own, however, I realize that the way I use paint there is a clear signifier that they share the same artist.”
Below you’ll find some highlights from her portfolio:
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