Category Archives: Painting

Dazzling Colour and Composition in Xuan Alyfe's Lively Murals

Posted at 2 pm on March 29, 2013 by Philip Dennis

Posted in: Painting, Spray Paint, Street Art

We’d like it if some of Xuan Alyfe’s lively murals popped up around the area we live to make the city streets all that more cheerful. In dazzling colour with a few welcome neons thrown in, Xuan creates these intense pieces on walls and in exhibition spaces. They’re all about careful composition. A mixture of symbols and expressive sprays of paint are placed in considered layouts to create a wonderful, chaotic balance.

Sunny Gu, Fashion Illustration, Watercolour and Happiness

Posted at 10 pm on March 26, 2013 by Philip Dennis

Posted in: Painting, Watercolour Illustration

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The detailing in the illustrations by Sunny Gu bring to life the brilliance of the colours in the fashion that inspires her art. Luckily, we have examples of the way she works in the studio and process images, and can see that they a large watercolours lovingly painted in their entirety on paper.

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

Posted at 8 pm on February 26, 2013 by Philip Dennis

Posted in: Mixed Media, Painting, Pens and Markers

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.

Graphic Yet Atmospheric Studies of Light in Christian Flynn's Paintings

Posted at 3 am on February 11, 2013 by Philip Dennis

Posted in: Painting

You’re walking to your car on the basement level when you stop to appreciate the stillness of the artificial light cast through the vacant car park. It’s these kinds of frozen moments that Christian Flynn captures in his paintings. While the sense of emptiness is almost tangible, he somehow manages to make strong, graphic statements without disrupting the atmosphere. In other work, he applies the same care to composition and studies of light to more local objects around him and even in his paintings of Photoshop windows.

Spontaneous Drawing, Painting, Sketchbooks and Printing with Laurent Moreau

Posted at 12 am on January 21, 2013 by Philip Dennis

Posted in: Character Illustration, Painting, Screen Printing

A quick leaf through any one of Laurent Moreau’s many filled sketchbooks and you’ll see that he finds inspiration in nature. Laurent enjoys more down-to-earth pleasures, gardening, sitting in fields, and it shows in his work. His images are full of decorative plants and animals drawn by someone who clearly has a passion for them. It is something he says emanates from his youth growing up in the French countryside.

Karen Barbour's Dreamy Gouache and Ink Paintings

Posted at 3 am on December 14, 2012 by Philip Dennis

Posted in: Ink Illustration, Mixed Media, Painting

The decorative paintings of Karen Barbour are full of inky washes and gorgeous sunset hues. We like collision of different techniques quickly leading us from sparkling masses of pattern to monochrom before changing direction once again. Her brush never really settles on one theme for too long, keeping the viewer on their toes and her work surprising and engaging.

Rich Bleeds of Colour in Estela A. Cuadro's Drawings

Posted at 5 pm on October 17, 2012 by Philip Dennis

Posted in: Ink Illustration, Mixed Media, Painting

There are delicate washes of colour and rich layers of ink in Estela A. Cuadro’s work. The fine lines and bleeds build up her drawings that are powerful in their decoration and detail. We like the overall effect of a sometimes pretty, sometime dark fairytale.