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Paintings On Naked Bodies

At first look at these amazing art works you’d be forgiven for not noticing that they are indeed painting on to the naked body of a woman. The works are by the very talented Craig Tracy who spends hours crafting perfect paintings onto the bodies of willing female models painting directly onto their skin. Hailing from New Orleans Tracy … read more»

Dan Witz

At first look these mosh pit pictures by artist Dan Witz could easily be mistaken for a photograph snapped at a rowdy gig but they are indeed paintings. Known as hyper realism Witz’s style of painting is so detailed and intricate that his pieces end up looking more like photos than something that was created with a simple paint brush. … read more»

john mattos star wars paintings

Star Wars Historical Paintings

We love it when artists turn their hands to recreating iconic images and these new historial Star Wars paintings by John Mattos are great. These new paintings by Mattos feature C3PO imitating Marcel Duchamps’ Nude Descending a staircase as well as placing Star Wars characters into Picasso’s Three Musicians. The pieces have been … read more»

Damien Cuypers Captures LFW

In our humble opinion artist Damien Cuypers is a genius and these portraits created at London Fashion Week just prove our point. If you’re not familiar with Cuypers work he is a portrait painter who is the man behind The Two Minute Portraits during last years Frieze Art Fair and he was back in town for Fashion Week to work his magic … read more»

Alexandra Pacula

Alexandra Pacula is an oil painter with a big, modern difference. Combining the style with photorealism, impressionism and expressionism Pacula creates blurred images of urban landscapes. Her work mimics long-exposure photographs captures the street lights and buildings in cities such as London, Paris and parts of the US and Spain. Check … read more»

Chloe Early

Painter Chloe Early lives and works in London and creates hugely colourful modern day murals full of fantastical landscapes, and urban utopias, Many of Early’s paintings highlight escapism, fantasy and leisure and include people and architectural forms. Since graduating from NCAD Dublin in 2003 she has pursued her painting practice … read more»

Diego Gravinese Hyperreal Paintings

When something is realer than a real thing it is described as Hyperreal and one artist that is giving his all to the genre is painter Diego Gravinese. Gravinese has created these oil and acrylic paintings that are so brilliantly created that they look just like a photograph. The Argentinian artist has built a name for himself for creating … read more»

John Tierney x Paul Smith

Since leaving his job as a criminology professor at Durham University right here in the UK John Tierney has been spending his time perfecting the art of oil painting. And if these new pictures are anything to go by he’s done a pretty good job. The images above have been taken from a new series of images the artist has just finished for … read more»

Old man with beard by Rembrandt

X-Ray Discovers Rembrandt Portrait

Technology is a clever thing isn’t it? This is proved further by the discovery of a self-portrait painted by the legendary artist Rembrandt which has been discovered using an X-Ray machine. The previously unknown portrait has been discovered beneath one of the artists oil paintings by Dutch scientists. The painting it was found beneath, … read more»

Intro: Emma Hill

Emma Hill’s dream like paintings recently caught our attention and we wanted to show them to you. Her works are deliberately quirky, child like and fun. She says that she wants her pieces to relate to everyone’s inner self and act as an escape from every day life. Her alter ego is Mimi and it’s the name she uses to describe … read more»

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