Anna Valdez

Artist Anna Valdez pulls items collected from her global travels and inspiration from...

Haphazardly Wrapped

These are paintings. Yes, paintings! Super hyperrealistic oil paintings by Swedish artist Yrjö Edelmann, in fact. After staring and scrutinizing each piece, it’s hard to believe each work is actually two dimensional – I almost have to…

Justyna Kopania

Polish painter Justyna Kopania‘s latests series of sailboats and ships has rendered me speechless. The heavy, flat strokes, depicting reflections and dimensions, make her work so distinctive. I love how the boats seem to be gliding away while…

Paco Poment

Obsessed with these bizarre surreal oil paintings by Spanish painter Paco Poment. It’s...

Amy Bennett

Artist Amy Bennet doesn’t just stop at creating beautifully complex miniature dioramas....

Gossamer Wings

Inspired by mythology and the relationship between women and birds, Amy Judd shrouds her work in mystery. And yet, each piece is so enchanting and calm . . . and just beautiful, of course.

My White Trash Family

Philadelphia based artist Kim Alsbrooks paints miniature portraits on trash – specifically, 17th and 18th century museum portraits on flattened beer cans, glass liquor bottles and discarded milk cartons. The inspiration behind My White Trash Family came from…

Take A Dip

These hyper-realistic paintings by Spanish artist Josep Moncada Juaneda have me yearning for a refreshing dip in the pool. Summer, where art thou?

Audrey Kawasaki

Influenced by Japanese manga comics and Art Nouveau, Los Angeles based artist Audrey Kawasaki is known for her precise technical style. Her mysterious ladies, each painted onto wood panels with oil paint and graphite, captivate with their seductive eyes,…

Bird Rib

I’m completely mesmerized by artist Maurizio Bongiovanni‘s traditional oil on canvas paintings of...

Summertime is a Blur

South African based painter Philip Barlow is fascinated by light and it’s effect on different surfaces. Barlow captures the soft focus effect perfectly, in these oil paintings of The Sea, by hinting at shapes and forms…

Van Portraits

After seven years of painting 30 van portraits, Artist Kevin Cyr will be having a solo exhibition at the Jonathan LeVine Gallery in New York City from May 19 through June 16, 2012. Inspired by vintage vans spotted throughout Brooklyn…

Window Seat

I love this series of oil paintings called Windows by Jim Darling. The...