Check out the trippy surreal work of Jennybird Alcantara. Fairytale, childlike dreamscapes, big innocent eyes, broken hearts, anthropomorphic characters and amputated limbs… lovely!
Stina Persson has lived, studied and worked in Tokyo, New York, Florence, Lund and Sweden, where she was born. I love her fashion illustration style, Stina herself sums it up best: “finding the right balance between the edgy and the elegant the raw and the beautiful.”. Link lifted from our friends over at Lost At E Minor.
I lose myself is a great little flash feature I found off Hong Kong based magazine Atomic Attack, whilst it takes a little time to load, it’s well worth the wait. Photography by Paco Peregrin.
Slick photography (slick web site design too) by Austrian photographer Marcus Pummer.
Slovakian based Jano Horak is a software developer who loves shooting nudes in medium format. If his photography is this great imagine his software development skills!!!
With diplomas from all over the world and having been an art director in international agencies, Kanjo Take is a professional who takes his photography very seriously.
Andrew Donaldson is the lead artist and concept developer for Xplane ZA in South Africa. Check out his site which is more like a blog where he even shows off his process at times (got to love that!). Love his style, he’s just one of those super talented creative all-rounders. I’m a fan.
The DesignChapel is the web site of Swedish artist, creative director, designer, illustrator and photographer Robert Lindström. What can I say? TALENT PLUS!!!
New York born Michael Kirwan considers erotica to be a form of folk art and sees his work as a pictoral history of homosexual norms and values. Infused with color and detail, his drawings depict many ages, ethnicities and body types in direct counterpoint to the more traditional “uberman” represented by most of his contemporaries.
Ghada Amer was born in Cairo in 1963, she now lives and works in New York. I came across her wonderful work at the local art gallery last weekend. Viewing Amer’s hand-embroidered paintings, with their delicate traceries of stray threads, involves a visual shift, as what appears to be a mass of abstract lines gradually comes into focus as highly erotic figures, displayed in a repetitive pattern. The work refuses to bow to the puritanical elements of both Western and Islamic culture, and what could be called “institutionalised feminism” with its own persistent myth of feminine virtue. She doesn’t have her own site, but you can view some of her work here and here.
In your face, political, art by Hans Bernhard, his everyday philosophy is best described in the Ubermorgen slogan: “it’s different because it is fundamentally different!”. His funny and controversial plastic man series (pictured above) can be viewed here. (via).
LA based Lisa Boyle is a model perhaps best known for her appearances in Playboy magazine and its various Special Editions. She is nowadays a professional photographer, shooting content for her own website, as well as freelance work for various publications. (via).
Beautiful beautiful detailed drawings by Russian artist Nikolay Fomin who depicts Russian fairy tales in an erotic light.
Beautiful surreal oil paintings by New York based artist Jonathan Weiner. (via).
Dale Lazarov and Steve McIsaac are the naughty men behind STICKY, a hardcover collection of erotic tales of man-on-man carnality and sweetness (written by Dale Lazarov and drawn by Steve MacIsaac).
Beautiful work by Los Angeles based fine art photographer Freyda Miller. I especially love love love the Naked Trees series. (via).
Robert Zeller is a fine artist who has used his latest series as a comment on Two Western concepts. That of the nude female as an icon for consumerism, and secondly a sense of American landscape, in this case, the American Shopping Mall. His works haunting with their use of cold open space, and the female form placed in these environments tells a story of vulnerability. His work technically combines “a version of 19th century figure modeling with 16th century perspective techniques.” He also has some nice portraits and sketches on his site.
Some beautiful imagery by New York based photographer Manolo Campion. I love the simplicity of the site too, his photographs simply broken up by his models names. Via our friends at Lost At E Minor.
