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]]>These fantasy gardens allow the viewer to get lost in their beauty, bold colors, and complexity, with each flower being captured at its peak and depicted with an impressive attention to detail. There is so much to unpack, explore, and comprehend that you could spend hours watching them without getting bored or feeling you’ve explored everything.
According to Jacob, each one of her paintings is, in some way, an expression of her love for the natural world. Through her works, she aims to capture the “beauty of nature’s evolution” and “the continual cycle of life, death, and rebirth.”
These floral paintings are not just a manifestation of Jacob’s love for nature, but they also have a deep personal meaning for her, being “infused with the rich memories of her childhood, of long evening walks with her grandfather, the scent of orange Champakam and Jasmine flowers at train stations, watching her mother tend to her garden spending a lot of time out in nature.”
You can check out more of Nidhi Mariam Jacob’s works on her social media channels or by scrolling below.
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]]>The post This Artist Twists the World Around Him in His Paintings appeared first on PlayJunkie.
]]>Bruno is a French contemporary artist that specializes in a specific kind of surrealism. He creates oil paintings and prints of contorted, distorted animals.
Bruno started painting and sketching at an early age and had always known he’d grow up to be an artist. One day, about ten years ago, he felt an urge to grab a canvass and draw. From the very start he was drawn to surrealism – he wanted to depict the madness and weirdness of the world around him with a brush and some paint.
Soon he started gravitating toward animals and developed his unique style. His purpose is to get the viewers involved in the work by questioning the reality around them. The paintings depict something very familiar and mundane – animals – but in an absurd way. By distorting something so familiar, Bruno is able to reinvent it and create something new and exciting.
And if that’s not incredible enough – Bruno is almost completely self-taught! When he decided he wanted to pursue art, he started attending workshops to work on his sketching and drawing skills. But other than that – he did everything on his own. To get better at oil painting, his preferred medium, he used books and looked at famous oil paintings in museums. It took him a while to get really good, but today his art is as well-made as it is interesting and weird.
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]]>The post Austin Howlett is a Master at Surreal Art appeared first on PlayJunkie.
]]>Surreal is definitely one word to accurately describe Howlett’s paintings, but his oil canvases let loose a handful of other qualities; one of them being sheer talent. It’s not hard to see that the artist is incredibly skilled, which serves as a solid foundation for the radical creative adventures he takes.
Whether it’s a young woman who seems to be “fused” with the branches of a tree, or giant humans roaming around grandiose natural landscapes, Howlett cleverly designs his pieces in such a way that everything seems organic.
His art, while surreal, still has a quaint softness to it. It doesn’t ever feel off-putting or harsh, a goal that many other radical painters tend to strive for. Rather, Howlett strikes a perfect balance between imagination and foundation, and it’s not hard to see why his work is so popular.
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]]>The post Immerse Yourself In Tess Gray’s Landscapes appeared first on PlayJunkie.
]]>This week we introduce you to artist Tess Gray. Inspired by the world around her (anything from the environment itself to her life experiences), her work most often depicts eerily empty landscapes, but with a fantastical twist.
Born in South Wales and currently based in Cardiff, Gray’s images depict the meeting point between realism and surrealism. Relying on studies from life, automatic sketching, and found images, her toolbox includes brushes, palette knives, and a field easel.
“I would say my practice is project-based,” she told Jackson’s Art, explaining her creative process, “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.”
“I’m of the opinion that painting and drawing are fundamentally the same thing,” adds 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.”
Her work, in its versatility, is open for interpretation.
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]]>The post Step Inside Polly Townsend’s Eerily Secluded Landscapes appeared first on PlayJunkie.
]]>Exploring some of the most remote and hostile landscapes in the world, Townsend’s artwork presents a view of the world beyond the familiar, showcasing apparently desolate places that are almost entirely uninhabited.
Each painting is the result of an expedition or a residency. “The work draws on journeys I have made to specific destinations around the world,” Townsend explained in an interview with Jackson’s Art. “They are places where the land is stark and exposed, unfertile, remote, and even hostile,” she adds.
Her work is gradual, producing first small works on-site using a collapsible easel, sketchbooks, and photographs, and then building up to 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,” says Townsend. “Sometimes these small works succeed in their own right and sometimes they become the backbone of studio work.”
While her work strikes a chord with us, it’s also very much detached, creating a sense of foreignness and unexplored territories. See for yourself:
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]]>The post The Beautiful Mosaic Portraits of Charis Tsevis appeared first on PlayJunkie.
]]>“Africa was love at first sight,” the artist tells My Modern Met. “I have learned so much about its cultures, but most of all I have felt that there was something so important in this land.” He was particularly in awe of the houses made of bricks and many other materials that show creativity and celebrate life.
Two of the portraits from his series belong to award-winning writer Amanda Gorman, and Jamaican American reggae artist Keznamdi. Gorman’s portrait was named after Maya Angelou’s poem And Still I Rise and it’s a powerful and confident work. Wonderful vibrant colors make this series one of the most beautiful things Tsevis ever did.
Scroll down to see more of his art, and if you like it, follow him on Instagram for more. Visit the artist’s website if you want to learn more about him and his work.
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]]>The post Russian Graphic Designer Draws Dark and Mysterious Surreal Creatures appeared first on PlayJunkie.
]]>By painting in her free time, Asadova is finding a way for personal growth. Although she doesn’t have a big following on social media, the talented artist has been exhibiting her work since 2016. Admirers from Moscow and St. Petersburg had the opportunity to see her creations.
Her inspiration comes from a project she worked on for Carl Jung. She shared with Bored Panda, that reading his work allowed her painting to “capture the images that I encountered on the path of inner knowledge”. Asadova further explained that, “The paradoxical nature of the psyche and the binary of archetypal forces are the subjects of research in artistic work.”
Her illustrations are filled with dark colors and strange creatures dominate the paintings. “A certain minimalism of the atmosphere is due to the abundance of black, which acts as the main medium, symbolizing the nature of the unknown, from which the most bizarre fantasies are born,” she wrote in her Saatchi Art profile.
Check out the gallery below for more intriguing illustrations.
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]]>The post Lidiya Marinchuk’s Dolls are Adorable appeared first on PlayJunkie.
]]>Her brand is called Marlitoys. You can check out (and buy) her work on Etsy and Instagram. She has almost 60k Instagram followers at the moment. We absolutely love her tiny, quirky animals, but she also creates seasonal stuff (such as Christmas dolls) and sometimes finds inspiration in pop culture elements. If you’re looking for a perfect gift for a kid or something to make you smile every time you look at it, definitely check her shop.
Here’s what she wrote on her profile to her followers: “Hello to all! My name is Lidiya. I live and create my MarLi toys in Ukraine since 2012. I want to make the world more colorful, to give people [a] good mood and a bit of magic. My creations are for people from 0 to 100 years.”
She can even make you a custom doll!
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]]>The post Emily Powell’s Vivid Paintings Are Exactly What We Need In Life appeared first on PlayJunkie.
]]>Powell has been painting since she was seven years old when her father passed away. Using bright colors was her way of bringing joy back into the lives of her and her family. She was very young when she learned that art can bring beauty and happiness to people.
Powell has been selling her work through Instagram and her sales increased during the lockdown. People find her art to be just the thing their homes are missing during these harsh times.
The artist spends her days and creates magic in a four-story fisherman’s cottage in Brixham, England. Her studio is set on the top floor and gives her a great view of the sea and the boats, which can be noticed in her art.
Scroll down to see some of her works and follow her on Instagram for more!
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]]>The post These Artists Will Inspire You to Think Out of the Box appeared first on PlayJunkie.
]]>The following artists will inspire you to broaden your horizons when it comes to your definition of art. Who knows, they might just inspire you to pick up your brush.
First up is Japanese artist Akie Nakata. Using small stones and pebbles as her canvas, Nakata’s miniature paintings take after the natural world. Cats, owls, and frogs come to life as she paints them on stone. According to Nakata, she chooses stones that already resemble animals. She then paints straight onto them, using acrylic paint. The end result is quite remarkable.
Ruby Silvious uses a different material altogether as her canvas: used, dried-up teabags. Her miniature art includes recreations of classic paintings such as Gabriël Metsu’s painting, Woman: “I want viewers to keep an open mind and think beyond the boundaries of what they may consider traditional art,” Silvious remarked once.
“In today’s throw-away culture, where we have immediate access to an abundance of materials and numerous mediums to choose from, all things become possible.” Alongside used teabags, Silvious also paints on broken eggshells and wine corks.
Chances are, you’ve stumbled across Christoph Niemann’s illustrations at least once. Celebrated as the world’s best illustrator, his work appears regularly on the covers of The New Yorker, National Geographic, and The New York Times Magazine. Part of his charm and wit is his unique use of everyday objects, incorporating physical objects like matchsticks and socks, into his illustrations.
“More than a specific visual style, my trademark has always been to autonomously, swiftly, and conceivably map out and execute an idea,” Niemann once shared with The Creative Independent. “Nobody ever approached me asking for a drawing of, say, a dinosaur with a fridge as a head done ‘in my style.’”
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]]>The post Get Lost in Nidhi Mariam Jacob’s Mesmerizing Fantasy Gardens appeared first on PlayJunkie.
]]>These fantasy gardens allow the viewer to get lost in their beauty, bold colors, and complexity, with each flower being captured at its peak and depicted with an impressive attention to detail. There is so much to unpack, explore, and comprehend that you could spend hours watching them without getting bored or feeling you’ve explored everything.
According to Jacob, each one of her paintings is, in some way, an expression of her love for the natural world. Through her works, she aims to capture the “beauty of nature’s evolution” and “the continual cycle of life, death, and rebirth.”
These floral paintings are not just a manifestation of Jacob’s love for nature, but they also have a deep personal meaning for her, being “infused with the rich memories of her childhood, of long evening walks with her grandfather, the scent of orange Champakam and Jasmine flowers at train stations, watching her mother tend to her garden spending a lot of time out in nature.”
You can check out more of Nidhi Mariam Jacob’s works on her social media channels or by scrolling below.
The post Get Lost in Nidhi Mariam Jacob’s Mesmerizing Fantasy Gardens appeared first on PlayJunkie.
]]>The post This Artist Twists the World Around Him in His Paintings appeared first on PlayJunkie.
]]>Bruno is a French contemporary artist that specializes in a specific kind of surrealism. He creates oil paintings and prints of contorted, distorted animals.
Bruno started painting and sketching at an early age and had always known he’d grow up to be an artist. One day, about ten years ago, he felt an urge to grab a canvass and draw. From the very start he was drawn to surrealism – he wanted to depict the madness and weirdness of the world around him with a brush and some paint.
Soon he started gravitating toward animals and developed his unique style. His purpose is to get the viewers involved in the work by questioning the reality around them. The paintings depict something very familiar and mundane – animals – but in an absurd way. By distorting something so familiar, Bruno is able to reinvent it and create something new and exciting.
And if that’s not incredible enough – Bruno is almost completely self-taught! When he decided he wanted to pursue art, he started attending workshops to work on his sketching and drawing skills. But other than that – he did everything on his own. To get better at oil painting, his preferred medium, he used books and looked at famous oil paintings in museums. It took him a while to get really good, but today his art is as well-made as it is interesting and weird.
The post This Artist Twists the World Around Him in His Paintings appeared first on PlayJunkie.
]]>The post Austin Howlett is a Master at Surreal Art appeared first on PlayJunkie.
]]>Surreal is definitely one word to accurately describe Howlett’s paintings, but his oil canvases let loose a handful of other qualities; one of them being sheer talent. It’s not hard to see that the artist is incredibly skilled, which serves as a solid foundation for the radical creative adventures he takes.
Whether it’s a young woman who seems to be “fused” with the branches of a tree, or giant humans roaming around grandiose natural landscapes, Howlett cleverly designs his pieces in such a way that everything seems organic.
His art, while surreal, still has a quaint softness to it. It doesn’t ever feel off-putting or harsh, a goal that many other radical painters tend to strive for. Rather, Howlett strikes a perfect balance between imagination and foundation, and it’s not hard to see why his work is so popular.
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]]>The post Immerse Yourself In Tess Gray’s Landscapes appeared first on PlayJunkie.
]]>This week we introduce you to artist Tess Gray. Inspired by the world around her (anything from the environment itself to her life experiences), her work most often depicts eerily empty landscapes, but with a fantastical twist.
Born in South Wales and currently based in Cardiff, Gray’s images depict the meeting point between realism and surrealism. Relying on studies from life, automatic sketching, and found images, her toolbox includes brushes, palette knives, and a field easel.
“I would say my practice is project-based,” she told Jackson’s Art, explaining her creative process, “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.”
“I’m of the opinion that painting and drawing are fundamentally the same thing,” adds 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.”
Her work, in its versatility, is open for interpretation.
The post Immerse Yourself In Tess Gray’s Landscapes appeared first on PlayJunkie.
]]>The post Step Inside Polly Townsend’s Eerily Secluded Landscapes appeared first on PlayJunkie.
]]>Exploring some of the most remote and hostile landscapes in the world, Townsend’s artwork presents a view of the world beyond the familiar, showcasing apparently desolate places that are almost entirely uninhabited.
Each painting is the result of an expedition or a residency. “The work draws on journeys I have made to specific destinations around the world,” Townsend explained in an interview with Jackson’s Art. “They are places where the land is stark and exposed, unfertile, remote, and even hostile,” she adds.
Her work is gradual, producing first small works on-site using a collapsible easel, sketchbooks, and photographs, and then building up to 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,” says Townsend. “Sometimes these small works succeed in their own right and sometimes they become the backbone of studio work.”
While her work strikes a chord with us, it’s also very much detached, creating a sense of foreignness and unexplored territories. See for yourself:
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]]>The post The Beautiful Mosaic Portraits of Charis Tsevis appeared first on PlayJunkie.
]]>“Africa was love at first sight,” the artist tells My Modern Met. “I have learned so much about its cultures, but most of all I have felt that there was something so important in this land.” He was particularly in awe of the houses made of bricks and many other materials that show creativity and celebrate life.
Two of the portraits from his series belong to award-winning writer Amanda Gorman, and Jamaican American reggae artist Keznamdi. Gorman’s portrait was named after Maya Angelou’s poem And Still I Rise and it’s a powerful and confident work. Wonderful vibrant colors make this series one of the most beautiful things Tsevis ever did.
Scroll down to see more of his art, and if you like it, follow him on Instagram for more. Visit the artist’s website if you want to learn more about him and his work.
The post The Beautiful Mosaic Portraits of Charis Tsevis appeared first on PlayJunkie.
]]>The post Russian Graphic Designer Draws Dark and Mysterious Surreal Creatures appeared first on PlayJunkie.
]]>By painting in her free time, Asadova is finding a way for personal growth. Although she doesn’t have a big following on social media, the talented artist has been exhibiting her work since 2016. Admirers from Moscow and St. Petersburg had the opportunity to see her creations.
Her inspiration comes from a project she worked on for Carl Jung. She shared with Bored Panda, that reading his work allowed her painting to “capture the images that I encountered on the path of inner knowledge”. Asadova further explained that, “The paradoxical nature of the psyche and the binary of archetypal forces are the subjects of research in artistic work.”
Her illustrations are filled with dark colors and strange creatures dominate the paintings. “A certain minimalism of the atmosphere is due to the abundance of black, which acts as the main medium, symbolizing the nature of the unknown, from which the most bizarre fantasies are born,” she wrote in her Saatchi Art profile.
Check out the gallery below for more intriguing illustrations.
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]]>The post Lidiya Marinchuk’s Dolls are Adorable appeared first on PlayJunkie.
]]>Her brand is called Marlitoys. You can check out (and buy) her work on Etsy and Instagram. She has almost 60k Instagram followers at the moment. We absolutely love her tiny, quirky animals, but she also creates seasonal stuff (such as Christmas dolls) and sometimes finds inspiration in pop culture elements. If you’re looking for a perfect gift for a kid or something to make you smile every time you look at it, definitely check her shop.
Here’s what she wrote on her profile to her followers: “Hello to all! My name is Lidiya. I live and create my MarLi toys in Ukraine since 2012. I want to make the world more colorful, to give people [a] good mood and a bit of magic. My creations are for people from 0 to 100 years.”
She can even make you a custom doll!
The post Lidiya Marinchuk’s Dolls are Adorable appeared first on PlayJunkie.
]]>The post Emily Powell’s Vivid Paintings Are Exactly What We Need In Life appeared first on PlayJunkie.
]]>Powell has been painting since she was seven years old when her father passed away. Using bright colors was her way of bringing joy back into the lives of her and her family. She was very young when she learned that art can bring beauty and happiness to people.
Powell has been selling her work through Instagram and her sales increased during the lockdown. People find her art to be just the thing their homes are missing during these harsh times.
The artist spends her days and creates magic in a four-story fisherman’s cottage in Brixham, England. Her studio is set on the top floor and gives her a great view of the sea and the boats, which can be noticed in her art.
Scroll down to see some of her works and follow her on Instagram for more!
The post Emily Powell’s Vivid Paintings Are Exactly What We Need In Life appeared first on PlayJunkie.
]]>The post These Artists Will Inspire You to Think Out of the Box appeared first on PlayJunkie.
]]>The following artists will inspire you to broaden your horizons when it comes to your definition of art. Who knows, they might just inspire you to pick up your brush.
First up is Japanese artist Akie Nakata. Using small stones and pebbles as her canvas, Nakata’s miniature paintings take after the natural world. Cats, owls, and frogs come to life as she paints them on stone. According to Nakata, she chooses stones that already resemble animals. She then paints straight onto them, using acrylic paint. The end result is quite remarkable.
Ruby Silvious uses a different material altogether as her canvas: used, dried-up teabags. Her miniature art includes recreations of classic paintings such as Gabriël Metsu’s painting, Woman: “I want viewers to keep an open mind and think beyond the boundaries of what they may consider traditional art,” Silvious remarked once.
“In today’s throw-away culture, where we have immediate access to an abundance of materials and numerous mediums to choose from, all things become possible.” Alongside used teabags, Silvious also paints on broken eggshells and wine corks.
Chances are, you’ve stumbled across Christoph Niemann’s illustrations at least once. Celebrated as the world’s best illustrator, his work appears regularly on the covers of The New Yorker, National Geographic, and The New York Times Magazine. Part of his charm and wit is his unique use of everyday objects, incorporating physical objects like matchsticks and socks, into his illustrations.
“More than a specific visual style, my trademark has always been to autonomously, swiftly, and conceivably map out and execute an idea,” Niemann once shared with The Creative Independent. “Nobody ever approached me asking for a drawing of, say, a dinosaur with a fridge as a head done ‘in my style.’”
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