Category: Portraits

The Wild Man

Canadian artist Zachari Logan is portrayed as the model in his artwork, however, he doesn’t intend to highlight himself but rather explore the relationship of human and nature. His blue pencil drawings are strange yet beautiful with flora and fauna weaving in and out of his head and body, like a Giuseppe Arcimboldo painting (e.g. […]

Oops, Agnes Cecile Spilled the Water

Agnes Cecile has launched new artwork, some of it is done with just watercolor paint, and other examples combine additional materials like charcoal, acrylic paint and pen. Her portraits actually highlight painting techniques, for instance shown above is a watery-pigment spill that becomes part of the girl’s hair. Like its all connected—the art lives within […]

The New Face of Portraits

Popping up around the globe are portraits without human features. Replacing the face, we see cosmic landscapes, geometric design, pop culture motifs, to name a few. This organic/inorganic hybrid art trend is an example of Object-Oriented Ontology. This emerging philosophy explains how a person can identify with something digital, inanimate, inhuman. Objects and abstractions become a visual […]

Large-scale Oil Paintings

Other than a few noticeable brushstroke marks, each of Eloy Morales’s paintings look exactly like photographs. This Spanish artist is clearly a perfectionist who wants to depict reality as it is. One of the challenges with hyperrealist portraiture is getting the skin tones right, because Caucasian skin is more than just a “peach” color, it […]