“Smile… But Not Too Much”: The Fashion and Posing of ’90s Family Photos
Studio family portraits from the 1990s carry a timeless nostalgia, defined by their carefully staged aesthetics. Continue reading »
Street Artist Creates Superb Urban‑surreal Murals With Nature, Ruins and Machinery Tangled Together in Poetic, Dreamlike Scenes
Maye (Victorien Liria) is a French painter and street artist from Sète known for tall, elastic characters and highly detailed surreal scenes that stretch between mural and canvas work. Continue reading »
“What Can We Do To Save Ourselves In This Difficult World?”: The Obsessive Sketchbook‑style Drawings By Isamu Gakiya
Isamu Gakiya aka Guinea Mate is a Japanese illustrator and draughtsman known for dense, surreal pencil and pen drawings that sit between portrait, creature design, and psychological vignette. Continue reading »
Artist Creates Paintings Where Plants, Animals and Space Collide, With Dreamlike Compositions Exploring Time, Mystery and Quiet Transformation
Scott Mills is a Detroit‑born, Asheville‑based painter and illustrator whose work sits between surrealism and pop‑surrealism, often featuring animals, plants, space motifs and glowing, otherworldly atmospheres. 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 »
Beautiful Photos of the Brutal Chevrolet Bel Air Sport Coupe from 1954
The 1954 Chevrolet Bel Air Sport Coupe stood as the flagship of the Bel Air line and represented the final year of Chevrolet’s early post-war design era before the sweeping changes of 1955. 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 »
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 »
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 »
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 Cutest, Soft Handmade Sculptures of Emina Poison
Lam Art Studio is the creative boutique of Emina Poison, a Georgian artist renowned for her highly original, whimsical designer toys and soft sculptures. 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 »
Spectacular Landscape Winning Images from the 1839 Photographer of the Year Awards
Gold: “An Arizona Moonrise” by Michael Mihaljevich
The 1839 Photographer of the Year Awards 2025 unveiled a stunning lineup of landscape masterpieces that celebrate nature’s grandeur. 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 »
Spectacular Shortlisted Photos from the 2025 Close-Up Photographer of the Year
Animals: “Splash” by Douglas Gimesy
The 2025 Close-Up Photographer of the Year (CUPOTY 7) shortlist has been unveiled, showcasing a mesmerizing world often overlooked. Continue reading »
“Eyes Full of Landscapes”: The Surreal Artworks of Naoto Hattori
Naoto Hattori is a visionary Japanese painter, celebrated worldwide for his intricate surrealist art. Continue reading »
Nostalgia and Nonconformity: Emotional Ink Sketches and Paintings of F Aartt
F Aartt is a French multidisciplinary artist, born in 1989, celebrated for dynamic ink pen drawings and abstract compositions that blend painting, illustration, and graphic design. Continue reading »
Beyond the Black: Emotional Macabre Storytelling at the Edge of Fantasy by Sarah Breen
Sarah Breen is a Las Vegas-based artist specializing in pen and ink drawings with a distinctly dark, surreal edge. Continue reading »
Pop Culture Redux: Vivid and Humorous Illustrations of Niclas M.
Niclas M., (aka Monkeymouthart), is a Guatemalan-born artist specializing in kitsch and lowbrow art, illustration, and graphic design. Continue reading »
