Category Archives: Mixed Media

Emir Sehanovic Creating an Eerie Atmosphere with Collage and Glitchy Interference

Posted at 12 pm on April 18, 2013 by

Posted in: Digital Illustration, Mixed Media, Photographic Illustration

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Glitchy digital interference creates these wonderfully eerie textures in work by Emir Šehanović, aka Esh. Various filters and distortions rework hand-mand and digital collages with an element of unease.

We think the combination of ultra-modern imagery with a flavour of the occult makes for an original and interesting atmosphere.

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Psychedelic Themes Using Illustration and Collage from Heretic Printmakers

Posted at 12 pm on April 14, 2013 by

Posted in: Mixed Media, Screen Printing

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The printmaking studio, Heretic mix collage and illustration in their designs, creating surreal imagery in trippy colours. They work from their London-based studio where they run a print service as well as working on their own commissions. They’ve made a huge range of prints and posters as well as exhibiting and even putting together installations (see pyramid below).

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Balancing Hard Edges and Characters in Thought with Viacheslav Vystupov

Posted at 11 am on March 12, 2013 by

Posted in: Mixed Media, Pencil Illustration

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The sharp edges and pointed angles in Viacheslav Vystupov’s homed sense of design really caught our eye. Obviously at ease with a ruler, the images created are dominated by hard forms in his people and settings, giving them a really nice punch. Viacheslav incorporates balance, however; much looser lines and scratchy marks break up the formality in illustrations full of atmosphere and characters in thought.

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Eleanor Taylor Creating Curious Landscapes with Oil-based Pencil, Graphite and Collage

Posted at 2 pm on March 7, 2013 by

Posted in: Character Illustration, Mixed Media, Pencil Illustration

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Eleanor Taylor joins her oil-based pencil and graphite drawings with collage to create beautifully multi-layered illustrations. Simply cutting out pieces of her own work and adding them by hand gives the images an extra sense of depth that you wouldn’t achieve by pasting them digitally.

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Angela Harding's Bold Prints Inspired by the English Countryside

Posted at 10 pm on March 4, 2013 by

Posted in: Hand Craft, Mixed Media, Screen Printing

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A passion for wildlife and the outdoors is immediately apparent in Angela Harding’s striking prints. She draws inspiration from the surrounding English countryside, which she can look out upon from her studio. Her designs are full of bold plants and animals with a focus on the birds that frequent the typical English garden.

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Layers of Patterned Colour in Ryan Thayer Davis' Mixed Media Paintings and Prints

Posted at 8 pm on February 26, 2013 by

Posted in: Mixed Media, Painting, Pens and Markers

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This collection of amazingly expressive images are a few examples from different series by Ryan Thayer Davis. Ryan currently lives and works in his home town of Austin, Texas, where he works with an abundance of colour, texture and creative marks. His portfolio includes oil paintings, lithographs and mono prints, as well as work in mixed media.

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