Extraordinary works on paper by artist Art Venti, who experiments with shadow, light and depth in an environment that starts with a forest of tissues in a light box. The view in this box of translucent paper suggests landscape scenes that seem to move and change as the sun crosses the sky. If the inferred panorama is beguiling enough, the mind will move from the seen to the unseen and finally to what can only be a dream.
Mixed Media: Predominantly colour pencils, water colour underlayer, lasceaux finishing spray, on 100% rag paper. Images are amorphic shapes, gracefully moving or motionless. The entire surface of the paper is covered with intensely detailed work. Each piece takes a minimum of four months or more to complete. The compositions appear dream like.
Some funny Illustrations by Jaco Haasbroek to make us laugh at the weekend!
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Pierced ceramic basket, by Guillaume Delvigne and Ionna Vautrin
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How cool are these ceramic baskets! I wonder if you could do a similar thing with regular weaved baskets painted white?
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We really like Lisa Congdon’s illustration work, and judging by her client list we’re not alone. It’s bright, simple and manages to combine an element of David McKee retro whilst feeling very fresh. Lovely stuff. See more of her work on her portfolio site here.
Check out this amazing stop-motion Lego version of the first scene in Casino Royale! Painstakingly made by Duncanmcconchie, it took around two weekends to make and apparently it was the bathroom fight scene that took the longest. Good work.
This week would have been the Birthday of Graphics and Film legend, Saul Bass. Here are some of his posters.
reblogged from dailyfeatorial:
Happy Birthday legend!
Ray Harryhausen, the special effects wizard who inspired many many film greats like George Lucas, Steven Spielberg, James Cameron, Tim Burton, and Peter Jackson, passed away Tuesday at the age of 92. This is one of his most famous sequences featuring a gang of skeletons, from the film Jason and the Argonauts, made in 1963.
You can see some gifs of some more of Ray’s magical creatures here.
This looks like quite an interesting and different sort of exhibition. Britain’s first Prime Minister, Sir Robert Walpole, amassed an amazing art collection which he displayed proudly in his country house, Houghton Hall in Norfolk in the first half of the 18th century. Unfortunately, Sir Robert’s grandson ran up huge debts and flogged the lot to Catherine the Great of Russia, where the collection formed the nucleus of the Hermitage collection. The sale caused a huge controversy in Britain, as even then the collection was regarded as of national importance. (Catherine the Great threw in a portrait of herself as part of the deal). To mark the 250th anniversary of Catherine’s accession to the throne, and to celebrate Anglo-Russian cultural relations, 70 of the paintings (including works by Poussin, Rembrandt and Van Dyck) are returning to Houghton Hall for this summer only. This is the first time they have left Russia since they originally left Houghton.
The British summer seems to have stalled again (at least in London), so anyone requiring a strong dose of joyous colour should head to Gallery 8, which is showing for the next week the intense Scottish landscapes of John Lowrie Morrison: Jolomo.
John Lowrie Morrison has painted the west coast of Scotland since the early 1960’s. He paints the light of the west - the light that bathes the Inner & Outer Hebrides.
He uses strong colour to express that light and sees his paintings – not in the traditional chiaroscuro of light and dark - but in darkness versus colour, which is what his painting is about: an allegorical description of the human spirit.
Here’s a great crash course in the history of Typography, ingeniously put together in the form of a short film by Ben Barrett-Forrest of Forrest Media.
