Sven Sauer is a digital artist that specializes in matte paintings. Sauer is part of the VFX team that brings the Game of Thrones world to life, creating the illusion of environments like King’s Landing, Harrenhall, Dragonstone and Qarth.
Sean Yoro aka HULA has been painting beautiful portraits in NYC, using his paddleboard to get to hard to reach places. The avid artist and surfer is originally from Oahu, Hawaii but is currently based in New York City.
DALeast (featured previously) was born in 1984 in Wuhan, China and is currently based in Cape Town, South Africa with his wife, Faith47, who is also a prominent artist. After studying sculpture at the Institute of Fine Arts, DALeast dropped out after four years and began making art in public spaces in 2004. His…
Photograph by Christie’s $179.36 million. That’s how much an anonymous buyer paid for Pablo Picasso’s 1955 painting, Les femmes d’Alger (Version “O”), earlier today, becoming the most expensive artwork ever sold at auction. It eclipses Francis Bacon’s Three Studies of Lucian Freud, which Christie’s sold for $142.4 million in 2013. Les femmes d’Alger (Version…
Elspeth McLean is an Australian award-winning artist whose passion for colour and detail has evolved into a unique style of painting she describes as “Dotillism”. In what she calls Mandala Stones, McLean collects beautiful beach stones and uses them as her canvas to create intensely colourful and intricate artworks entirely out of dots. Elspeth…
Patrick Kramer is an American hyper-realist painter based in Springville, Utah. After graduating from Brigham Young University in 2008 with a major in art, Kramer has been painting professionally ever since. Each painting can take Patrick anywhere from 50 – 300 hours. In an interview with Wallhop, Kramer says his process usually begins with…
When they start to move, things get really interesting! The models were painted by award-winning, fine art body painter Johannes Stötter. Be sure to check out our previous posts on Johannes’ incredible artwork here and here.
To celebrate Easter, artist Barak Hardley painted 62 different characters and celebrities onto eggs. Be sure to check out the video above by Awe Me where you can see up close shots of many of the amazing egg paintings. You can also see all of the painted eggs in the images below. To see…
When we first profiled Irvine’s ‘re-directed paintings’ last July we had no idea it would become one of our most viewed articles of 2014. We recently caught up with David to see what he’s been up to and learned that he’s busy working on commissions (contact him here) and displaying his latest artworks at…
In 2001 John Bramblitt changed his epilepsy medication. Unfortunately his body had a bad reaction to the new medicine and his epileptic seizures got so severe that the damage caused his vision to go from 20/400 (double the limit for legal blindness) to complete blindness. While John maintained light perception he was no longer…
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