After traveling throughout culture, history, art and the senses, paint comes home to become incarnate into its tools. For the paint company Valentine, the Spanish designers Culdesac celebrates the ever changing nature of artistic tools and implements them within the Valentine brand. CuldeSac brings to life again the (...) Read More about Valentine: The Paint Evolution by Culdesac (128 words)

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There are artists you admire for their acute attention to detail, and there are those you admire for free-flowing technique. Melissa Manfull, who works with ink, graphite, and pencil, is an artist admired for both. Combining one to three mediums per piece, Melissa’s work usually features architectural-style geometric structures, juxtaposed with (...) Read More about Melissa Manfull’s Artwork (54 words)

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After their amazing ‘Flowers’ campaign, Boysen paint ads are back and this time with animals, a jellyfish, a mantis and a snail are their latest stunning cgi print ads.

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The Liquid Light series of world renown fine art photographer Howard Schatz is pretty impressive. Studying the human body as a canvas while playing with light and paint, can bring some pretty unexpected results…

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Monica Cook paints beautiful and disturbing portraits of women. In her latest exhibition, Seeded and Soiled, Cook’s nude women engage with gorgeously rendered erotic food in scenes that elicit a range of emotion in the viewer from mesmerized hilarity to horror. The Georgia-born artist graduated Summa Cum Laude from the Savannah College of Art and Design in 1996 and now lives and works in New York.(...) Read More about Monica Cook’s Erotic Women (0 words)

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G-Nie Arambulo‘s Boysen print ad campaign ‘Flowers’ won a Bronze Lion at the 2009 Cannes International Advertising Festival. This was the second ever Cannes Lion award won by the Philippines and first ever in the print category. The brief seemed straightforward – make flowers out of paint splashes – but it was indeed a simply-said idea with a much more complex process. (...) Read More about Boysen Paint Ads (148 words)

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One can say without a doubt that Swedish artist Linnea Strid‘s forte is painting water in a way that confuses the onlooker as to whether the piece they are looking at is a photograph or a painting. Strid must have studied water in so much depth [mentally, visually, and physically alike] that she knows it inside and out.(...) Read More about Water-like Reality Linnea Strid (44 words)

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