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The impactful and minimal street art of Daan Botlek

Myartisreal — Fri, 03 Dec 2021 21:54:36 +0000

Artist Daan Botlek populates walls around the world with his minimal and entertaining characters. Based in Rotterdam, Netherlands Botlek is an illustrator and street artist whose focus is on how his characters interact with the world. When he started he was making art that was much more intricate and focused on the style and process rather than what was being portrayed. Soon Botlek grew board of…

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Interview with Garis Edelweiss

Myartisreal — Fri, 01 Oct 2021 14:23:10 +0000

We recently curated an online group exhibition titled “Mind asleep, Body awake” and you can view it here. We asked four artists to be a part of it and Garis Edelweiss is one I had admired for a while. His surreal graphite drawings are so detailed and immersing. What is your first memory of being creative? (Project, specific artwork, etc.) When I was little I liked to scribble on my parents’…

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Clouds turn into otherworldly creatures in these magical drawings by Vorja Sánchez

Myartisreal — Wed, 25 Aug 2021 20:18:57 +0000

Spanish artist Vorja Sánchez lives and immerses himself in the forest. Using everyday life and his imagination he is able to use his drawings to bring to life these strange yet familiar creatures. His traditional style of works consists of drawings and paintings of muted colors showcasing storybook-style creatures. His latest series of surreal artworks called “interventions” was how I found…

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Elaborate and magical drawings by Steeven Salvat

Myartisreal — Tue, 24 Aug 2021 17:08:55 +0000

Steeven Salvat spends a pain-stacking amount of hours on each work of art he creates to provide a truly magical image. Salvat’s medium of choice is drawings and uses a hatching technique with black ink and Rotring pens. This technique provides the works with great details and shadows but requires much time and attention to detail, but Salvat doesn’t seem to mind either. His works focus on…

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The ‘Penrider’ Carlos Fernández creates eerie and surreal graphite drawings

Myartisreal — Fri, 09 Apr 2021 16:08:13 +0000

Appearing like surreal twilight zone black and white images, these graphite drawings spark feelings of loneliness and fear in the heart of the viewer. The person behind these drawings is Carlos Fernández (Carlos Fdez) or perhaps even better known by the name ‘Penrider.’ The use of simple black and white graphite drawings adds a layer of mystery to each work, allowing the surreal and striking…

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Ana Santos blends different mediums into beautiful illustrations

Myartisreal — Sat, 27 Mar 2021 16:24:38 +0000

Today we look at the beautiful surreal portraits by Salamanca-based artist Ana Santos. Her works often use multiple mediums at once, from watercolors, drawings, digital illustrations, and even embroidery. Santos loves to experiment with her works by dipping her toes into various mediums, doing this has allowed her to find a style all her own. Often her works feature clusters of flowers with…

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Illustration artist Geffen Refaeli draws one doodle each day

Myartisreal — Sat, 07 Nov 2020 21:32:57 +0000

Geffen Refaeli presents dailydoodlegram, an artistic endeavor in which Refaeli created one doodle each day. Beginning a little over 6 years ago Geffen an Israel-born illustrator would do little drawings of her friends she would see on her Instagram feed and then posted them onto her own page. Her illustrations before these doodles always had darker themes to them as well as contained more…

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‘Hanging by a string’ a reflection on modern life with Vicki Ling

Myartisreal — Mon, 26 Oct 2020 18:00:46 +0000

Often in life things can change within a split-second decision, sometimes these decisions we make ourselves, other times things that happen are out of our control. With the whole world uncertain when or if coronavirus will become a thing of the past, it feels as if things are out of our control as we are made to stay home afraid to go out into the world and spread this virus.

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Hyperrealistic Drawings, a look at Cj Hendry

Myartisreal — Tue, 25 Aug 2020 14:25:49 +0000

Hyperrealistic artworks created with color pencils, at first you think its a photograph but as you look deeper into the art of Cj Hendry your mind is blown with the realization these are all created out of nothing more than some pencils and paper. She is an Australian artist whose full name is Catherine Jenna Hendry, she goes by Cj Hendry on Instagram and has used the platform to not only showcase…

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Mini Ecosystems for clean air, illustrations By Kit Layfield

Myartisreal — Thu, 30 Jul 2020 22:31:49 +0000

In today’s landscape of consistent fear of COVID-19 and no end in sight to the madness. One artist is creating inspiring works of art by reimagining mask into mini-ecosystems for your personal source of fresh air. Philadelphia based illustrator Kit Layfield began posting these mask themed illustrations back in May featuring his traditional linework style and unique color palette.

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