Came across these “Ghost Photographs”, which are little paintings on found photographs by artist Angela Deane. I think this idea is so much fun, it makes me smile a lot.
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So I was looking at these photos of ladies eating in the bath and I was admiring the composition, the colours and the overall idea, I thought it was really interesting, but then I realised that I wasn’t looking at photographs, no don’t be silly. These are oil paintings, which of course blew my mind. I mean how crazy-detailed and lifelike are these pieces? The person behind these realistic oil paintings is Lee Price, yet another artist I wish I could meet in real life so I can chop their hands off and sew them onto my own – just kiddddding. Not really.
These are the paintings of Alex Roulette. They are so beautiful and so well executed, I wish I could see them all hanging up in one room together. Each piece makes me feel like the person/people in it are the only ones left on this earth and they only have each other or themselves to rely on. The muted tones and then flashes of bright colours that he uses makes each piece as eye catching as the next.
Damn this world is so full of amazing people, like Alex, like Lorraine, like a who knows how many more. Makes me a bit sad that I’ll never get to see them all, but it makes me damn happy when I come across people like this. Alex, I’ve just discovered your work, but I’m already a huge fan.
A while back I did a post about the extremely talented Miss Lorraine Loots and today I’m posting about my very own piece that I bought. Lorraine hand delivered it over the weekend and I couldn’t be happier with it if I tried. It truly is such an amazing piece of art. This is the first miniature of hers in this series that I have seen up-close and the sheer size of it and the detail in the painting is mind blowing. I cannot believe that she gets so much detail into something so small – it’s crazy!
I wanted to show you guys the interesting work of my friend Grace Cross, she’s a fine artist who lives and paints in Cape Town and I think her work is damn cool. I’m not very good at reading too much into art, I just know what I like, so I’ve included Grace’s artists statement so that you can understand her body of work a bit more through her own words.
Came across these interesting pantings by British artist Sarah Ball. She has 2 series entitled Accused, which are made up of paintings of fugitives from back in the day. Their crimes vary from fire starters (KKK), to activists, to poisoners to prostitutes to people who are just simply labeled suspicious & dangerous or whose crimes were unknown.
By painting them in this manner it almost changes how you look at the person in the picture, in so many of them I don’t see a criminal, but just a normal person looking back at me. There are a whole lot of them and they are all as awesome as these, so if you would like to see them, just click here.