First painting from my Toronto trip. Street corner, Kensington Market. Watercolour. 420 x 297mm.
If you’ve got a body, you’ve got a gym body.
Y’all remember my Gym Dudes illustration?
Can you picture the happy dance I did when Portland’s own Wieden+Kennedy contacted me about making a Gym Ladies illustration for the Nike Women Tumblr? xD
“The High Keening Trees / Annihilate Yourself”, 11"x14" gouache & watercolor painting for Mondo’s “Originals” show. (Title borrowed from lines of a beautiful/obscure piece of prose by John Darnielle.)
This painting is sold but check out the other work from the show here!
http://mondotees.com/collections/original-art#
Jan Vermeer
The Art of Paintin or The Allegory of Painting, or Painter in his Studio (and three details),
1665-1668
Rovina Cai
Month of Fear 2015: Mirrors
“Narcissus”
6x8 in. Coloured pencil, ink + digital.
Rovina’s killing it this week. Check out the lovely mirror themed art!
I had to skip this week, I managed to injure myself pretty well and it’s put me behind on everything. I’ll probably finish my mirror painting in November.
If all goes well I’ll have a piece for next week’s theme!
my arm is hurting again, which in turn hurt my art and my ability to post stuff on here! comissions take me forever, since i have to paint so little before i have to rest again. i wanted to just doodle something today tho because i miss arting so bad!!! you can see the speedpaint for this sketchy painting on my PATREON, and it would be so lovely if you would check it out! my patreon is my most secure source of art money at the moment, since i can’t take on so many comissions at the moment and they are spaced far between.
i was imagining what a majestät/riddaren fusion would look like, or what their child might look like if they ever had one, so here’s the result!
Faig Ahmed Creates Psychedelic Rugs From Traditional Azerbaijani Textiles
Faig Ahmed’s latest project focuses on making contemporary carpets from classical Azerbaijani textiles. Ahmed graduated from the Azerbaijan State Academy of Fine Art in Baku in 2004. His background as an artist covers painting, video and installation as well as other mediums; however, his attention is currently focused on working with textile and sculpture.
Traditional Azerbaijani carpets rely heavily on geometric and symmetrical patterns, stemming from historical influence. The carpets are usually limited to be rectangular or square in shape. By dismantling the laws that govern the structure and pattern of these fabrics, Ahmed converges his love of ancient culture to create a psychedelic visualization. By refurbishing the traditional compositions into a contemporary sculpture, he disassembles their stable nature and injects motion into a pre-existing lifeless object.
The patterns break away from their rigid symmetry and melt away from the tapestry into a colorful puddle. Ahmed also adds a digital effect to the rugs by pixelating fragments and blank spaces on the drapery. Overall, the artist intentionally creates an interesting union between contemporary art and ancient Azerbaijani roots.
