Matt Midgley Paints Razor‑sharp Geometric Acrylics So Precise They Barely Look Hand‑mad
Matt Midgley is a Seattle‑based visual artist and curator known for precise, hard‑edge geometric acrylic paintings that almost read like digital prints, often built from modular color blocks and gradients. Continue reading »
This Artist Blends Javanese Tradition With Contemporary Painting, Turning Patterned Fabrics And Figures Into Quietly Surreal Scenes
Anjastama HP is a young emerging Indonesian painter who combines traditional Javanese culture and motifs with contemporary figurative painting, often using acrylic on canvas to depict introspective characters in symbolic, dreamlike settings. Continue reading »
Artist Paints Smoky Lounges And Quiet Strangers, Letting Half‑finished Details Turn Viewers Into Co‑authors Of The Scene
Michael Carson is an American figurative painter known for atmospheric oil paintings of solitary or small groups of people in bars, lounges and urban interiors, rendered with muted palettes, strong design and a mix of realism and stylization. Continue reading »
Artist Randy Ortiz Turns Oil Paint And Graphite Into Dark, Symbol‑packed Visions
Randy Ortiz is a Winnipeg‑based Canadian artist and illustrator known for dark, symbolically rich oil paintings and meticulously rendered graphite/charcoal drawings that often explore anxiety, suffering, faith and the uncanny. Continue reading »
An Artist Channels Underground Comix Energy Into Hyper‑inked Monsters, Mutants And Marvel Commissions With Serious Attitude
Jonathan Wayshak is an American comic and concept artist known for chaotic, high‑energy ink work, dense cross‑hatching and grimy, “questionable” creatures that sit between underground comix, horror and sci‑fi illustration. Continue reading »
World Of Halos, Wings And Symbolic Props and Emotional Afterglow in Acrylic Portraits of Willow Benjamin
Willow Benjamin is a 1999‑born contemporary pop‑surrealism artist who specializes in acrylic painting, creating vibrant, occasionally eerie portraits and fantasy scenes that “make acrylic paintings glow.” Continue reading »
Heavy Charcoal Shading And Dramatic Light Make Daniel Álvarez’s Drawings and Illustrations Feel Pulled From Dreams
Daniel Álvarez is an illustrator from Mexico City; he creates contemporary drawings that explore how humanity moves, thinks and behaves by reflex, often in stark black‑and‑white charcoal, graphite and digital media. Continue reading »
Artist Paints Chain‑smoking Cats And Lanky Whimsies In Gouache, Capturing The Surreal Stretch Between Everyday And Emotional Warp
Smallwhitemonster is a Manchester‑based artist known for surreal gouache and acrylic paintings featuring lanky, chain‑smoking animals, elongated figures and dreamlike scenes that explore the “quiet tension between the ordinary and the surreal.” Continue reading »
Artist Draws Haunting Graphite Worlds Where Women, Animals And Architecture Share The Same Fragile, Ghostly Grace
Dasha Pliska is a Ukrainian artist and illustrator from near Odesa who works primarily in graphite, charcoal and pencil, creating monochrome drawings with rough textures, delicate shading and a strong sense of drama and “ghostly grace.” Continue reading »
Artist Reshapes Walls And Spaces With Explosive Typographic Murals That Turn Buildings Into Giant, 3D Messages
Alex J. Fowkes is a UK‑born, Vancouver‑based graphic designer, artist, muralist and author renowned for bold, typographic‑driven work that transforms branding, packaging, installations and public spaces into immersive visual experiences. Continue reading »
This Artist Paints Dark‑fantasy Characters, Then Scans Them Into Limited Prints For Occult‑minded Collectors
Xavier Ortiz is a Sacramento‑based dark‑fantasy illustrator working primarily in watercolor (often mixed with pastel), known for haunting yet tender images of witches, spirits, skeletons and seasonal beings wrapped in misty, glowing atmospheres. Continue reading »
Artist Tony Sandoval Treats Watercolour As Weather — Rain, Mist And Stains That Roll Across The Page
Tony Sandoval is a Mexican illustrator and comic‑book artist based in Europe, known for dreamy, slightly macabre watercolours where big‑headed kids, ghosts, monsters and fish riders drift through melancholic landscapes. Continue reading »
Ukrainian Artist Builds Dotwork Worlds Where Kings, Queens And Skeletons Act Out Quiet, Psychological Dramas In Pure Black Ink
Rostislaw Tsarenko is a Ukrainian self‑taught artist from Poltava who specializes in highly detailed black‑and‑white ink drawings using dotwork and stippling to build realistic yet surreal, symbol‑heavy images. Continue reading »
Denis Zhbankov Blends Russian Folklore With Dark Fantasy, Summoning Comedy‑Horror Creatures That Feel Like They Moved Into Your Village And Never Left
Denis Zhbankov is a Russian freelance digital artist and concept artist known for mixing comedy and horror, often drawing dark fantasy creatures rooted in Russian folklore and “backwoods” atmospheres. Continue reading »
Amazing Photos of Iran Air Flight Attendants Before the 1979 Revolution
Before the 1979 Revolution, Iran Air—widely known as “Homa”—stood among the world’s most prestigious and rapidly expanding airlines. Continue reading »
Meet Aleardo Villa, The Master of Belle Époque Elegance
Aleardo Villa (1865–1906) was an exceptional Italian painter and illustrator whose work embodied the elegance of the Belle Époque. Continue reading »
Artist Paints Dreamy Guardians, Monkeys And Plant‑spirits In Soft Acrylics, Turning Canvases Into Little Safe Zones For Anxious Hearts
Ella May is a contemporary artist and illustrator who builds soft, surreal worlds with big‑eyed girls, monkeys, spirits and plants painted in acrylic, oil pastel and mixed media on canvas. Continue reading »
Meet Jean-Jacques Grandville, The Master of Anthropomorphic Satire
Jean‑Jacques Grandville (born Jean Ignace Isidore Gérard, 1803–1847) was a major French illustrator and caricaturist whose intricate, often fantastical drawings left a strong mark on the Romantic era. Continue reading »
Painter Turns Vintage Cars, Empty Highways And Neon Motels Into Lonesome Road‑trip Scenes That Feel Like Paused Frames From A Lost Movie
Greg Mount is a painter and visual storyteller based in Melbourne, Australia, whose work mixes mid‑century nostalgia, road‑movie solitude and a touch of surreal humour. Continue reading »
Artist Duo Paint Fairy‑tale‑like Scenes Suspended Between Sweetness And Menace, As If A Bedtime Story Had Started To Go Wrong
Aleksey and Anton Tvorogov (Tvorogov Brothers) are Moscow‑born twin artists (both 1988) who work as a duo, known for painterly, slightly uncanny scenes that feel like fragments of a fairy tale caught between childhood and adulthood. Continue reading »
Illustrator Draws Monumental Tree‑scapes On Transparent Dura‑Lar, Braiding Roots, Rocks And Memory Into Delicate, Sci‑fi‑tinged Forest Architectures
Rachael Pease is a Chicago‑based artist known for meticulous ink drawings on translucent Dura‑Lar that weave real landscapes and trees together with threads of memory, fantasy and speculative futures. Continue reading »
With Elegant Penwork And Calm, Fashion‑forward Characters, This Artist Reimagines Classic Japanese Ghost Stories As Contemporary Iconography
Kotaro Chiba (チバコウタロウ) is a freelance illustrator, designer and artist based in Niigata, Japan, known for intricate line‑art scenes that fuse ukiyo‑e influences, street fashion, skulls and surreal, anime‑adjacent character design. Continue reading »
Illustrator Creates Pop‑surreal Paintings Turning Everyday Life Into Bright, Storybook‑style Adventures
Nathan Durfee is an American painter and illustrator based in Charleston, South Carolina, known for whimsical pop‑surreal narratives packed with quirky animals, kids, and oddball objects in bright, storybook colour. Continue reading »
Finnish Illustrator Creates Dream‑like Forest Worlds With Watercolour, Ink And Starlight Turning Nordic Folklore Into Soft, Escapist Magic
Ulla Thynell is a Finnish artist, illustrator, designer and photographer based near Helsinki, best known for dreamy fantasy and fairy‑tale imagery rooted in forests, folklore and Nordic myth. Continue reading »
Italian Surrealist Creates Toads, Beasts And Insects In Ink With Every Line Crawling, Curling And Conspiring Against The Blank Page
Gaia Perissutti is an Italian surreal illustrator who calls herself the “Surrealist Great Archduchess of Tiny Details,” known for dense black‑and‑white ink drawings filled with eyes, tentacles, teeth, bugs and strange hybrid creatures. Continue reading »
