Artist Creates Dreamy Picture‑book Worlds With Gentle Giants, Turning Everyday Scenes Into Small Pieces of poetry
Paolo Domeniconi is an Italian illustrator based in Spilamberto (Modena), best known for atmospheric, story‑driven images for children’s books that mix realism with quiet magic. Continue reading »
Artist Creates Giant Anatomical Murals With Dissected Humans, Animals, and Cartoons, Turning City Walls Into Open‑air Anatomy Lessons
Nychos (previously featured) is an Austrian‑born, Los Angeles–based street artist, illustrator, and muralist known for huge, hyper‑detailed paintings that “dissect” humans, animals, and pop‑culture characters to reveal their skeletons, muscles, and organs in exploding cross‑sections. Continue reading »
Artist Creates Vivid Canvases Where Fantasy Bleeds Into the Everyday, With Playful Yet Unsettling Compositions Questioning Human‑centric Worldviews
Lee Gihun (Lee Ki‑hoon) is a South Korean painter who blends pop‑surrealism with everyday scenes, creating vivid canvases where animal instincts, masks, and human conventions collide. Continue reading »
Artist Creates Stunning Drawings and Street Art Murals Rooted in Mexican and Indigenous Traditions
Mazatl is a contemporary Mexican artist and printmaker known for powerful relief prints, murals, and installations that center on nature, animals, ancestry, and collective liberation. Continue reading »
Dan May Creates Surreal Gentle‑creature Worlds With Soft, Furry Giants and Wistful Atmospheres at the Edge of Dreams and Memory
Dan May is a modern narrative painter and illustrator from the United States known for surreal, emotionally rich worlds filled with “gentle creatures,” dreamlike landscapes, and quiet, story‑like scenes. Continue reading »
Sebastian Krüger Creates Large‑format Grotesquely Distorted Celebrity Portraits
Sebastian Krüger is a German painter famous for large, hyper‑real yet grotesquely distorted portraits of rock stars and pop‑culture icons, especially The Rolling Stones. His work sits between fine art and caricature: highly detailed acrylic “personality portraits” that exaggerate features while amplifying character, attitude, and theatrical presence. Continue reading »
Ross Muir Creates Reworked Art‑history Icons in Sportswear With a Sharp Street‑culture Twist
Ross Muir is a self‑taught Scottish painter from Alexandria in the Vale of Leven, now based in Glasgow, who reimagines famous artworks with a sharp, street‑culture twist. He started painting at 30 with no formal training, using art to turn his life around, and became widely known after his Van Gogh in an Adidas tracksuit, Square Gogh, went viral. Continue reading »
Artist Gus Fink Creates Superb Creepy‑cute Paintings and Toys
Gus Fink is a self‑taught American multimedia artist and toy designer known for his creepy‑cute pop‑surreal style and original character universes. Continue reading »
Ejiwa Ebenebe Creates Lush, Ornamented Fantasy Portraits and Vibrant Digital Paintings With African Vibe
Ejiwa “Edge” Ebenebe is a queer Nigerian-Canadian illustrator and fine artist currently based in British Columbia, Canada. Continue reading »
Colorful 1950s Film Posters by Ernesto García Cabral
In the 1950s, as cinema flourished worldwide, Mexican illustrator Ernesto García Cabral introduced a striking visual style to film promotion. Continue reading »
German Artist Eckart Hahn Creates Ambiguous Paintings and Evocative Visual Dramas
Eckart Hahn, born in 1971 in Germany, is a contemporary painter recognized for creating atmospheric and tension-filled narrative scenes. Continue reading »
The Enchanting and Bizarre Animal Worlds in Drawings of Rustlehare
Giulia Ferla is an Italian illustrator and artist recognized for her witchy, whimsical style that blends sophisticated techniques with a fascination for the animal kingdom. Continue reading »
“Hiding from the Sun”: Beautiful Surreal Illustrations by Neil Thompson
Neil Thompson is a County Durham-based artist known for creating imaginative and unusual scenes that blend fantasy and surreal elements. Continue reading »
Meet Karin Hosono and Her Delicate and Humorous Cat Drawings
Karin Hosono is a Japanese artist born in 1998 in Aichi Prefecture, known for her unique and delicate depictions of cats. Continue reading »
The Wild and Spiritual: The Feminine Illustrations of Valeria Hipocampo
Valeria Hipocampo is a full-time independent illustrator and also an art historian. Continue reading »
“Six Feet Deep”: Horror Nostalgia and Bizarre Beauty in the Art Works of Tyler Pennington
Tyler Pennington is an American horror, fantasy, and sci-fi artist based in Richmond, VA, recognized for intricate black-and-white pen-and-ink drawings rich in macabre details. Continue reading »
Provocative Feminine Artworks and Vibrant Streetart Murals by Crisselle
Karina Vazquez (aka Crisselle) is a Long Beach-based, self-taught artist known for her dreamlike, poetic style and evocative exploration of femininity and personal identity. Continue reading »
“Bubble Gum Body Horror”: The Gooey Delight of the 90s in Spencer Mann’s Illustrations
Spencer Mann is a San Francisco-based artist recognized for his vibrant, “bubble gum body horror” style blending cute and gross elements, featuring drippy, gooey creatures and surreal, playful forms. Continue reading »
Exploring Heart and Humor in Matt Emmons’s Post-Apocalyptic Comics
Matt Emmons is a Philadelphia-based comic artist, illustrator, and the founder of Second At Best Press. Continue reading »
The Everyday Magic and Whimsical Art of Angela Smyth
Angela Smyth is a self-taught artist based in West Yorkshire, UK, known for her distinctive, quirky style that blends illustration, wit, and poignancy. Continue reading »
“Tiny Mice, Big Stories”: Humor and Surreal Whimsy in the Paintings of Stuart Dunkel
Stuart Dunkel is an American painter and classical musician born in 1952, known for his detailed oil paintings that often feature whimsical mice in playful and surreal scenes. Continue reading »
“Farewell Waltz”: The Emotional Illustrations of SilllDA
SilllDA is a South Korean visual artist whose vibrant, emotionally charged digital illustrations and paintings have gained global attention. Continue reading »
“Cutting Deeper”: The Self-Dissecting Worlds of Alex Eckman-Lawn’s Paper Collages
Alex Eckman-Lawn is a Philadelphia-born artist and illustrator celebrated for his intricate, multi-layered paper collages and dynamic illustration work. Continue reading »
Amazing Vintage Portraits From History of the Indian Tribes of North America
The DeGolyer Library at Southern Methodist University houses the renowned multi-volume work History of the Indian Tribes of North America. Continue reading »
A Legacy of Curiosity and Discovery: Stunning Vintage Covers of The ‘Scientific American’ Magazine
Scientific American, founded in 1845 in New York City, stands as one of the most esteemed science magazines in the world. Continue reading »
