You really enjoyed Noah Sheldon’s cats wearing clothes, so you will love Heather Mattoon’s adorably styled fur ball paintings. All these kittens have names, occupations and wear cool clothes just like their keepers. Giclee prints of all of the paintings are available to purchase the very friendly price of $32. Read the full story

Since 1987, Dutch Photo-realistic artist Tjalf Sparnaay has been working on his imposing oeuvre, constantly seeking new images that have never been painted before (mostly painting food). What he calls Megarealism is part of the contemporary global art movement of Hyperrealism, and with prices of  original oil paintings between 10.000 and 45.000 €, Sparnaay is now Read the full story

The Canadian artist Melanie Authier‘s paintings bring together visual contradictions into one imaginary space. By drawing upon the histories of abstraction and the strategies of representation, she presents improbable environments. A sense of disorientation comes about through the way in which colour, texture, line and shape compete for Read the full story

Inconspicuous

I’m in love with these amazing paintings by American artist Kelly Reemtsen. The unexpected combinations of anonymous headless figures in beautiful vintage frocks holding simple tools like axes, gardening sheers, bolt cutters, chainsaws and crowbars also have great names, like “Heavy Handed”, “Axe” or “Character Assassination”.  I really like the way the artist captured the combination of softness and strength, fantasy and reality, noir undertones and lovely candy-bright colors.

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Based in Los Angeles, the Belgium-born artist Anja Van Herle has been painting portraits since she was a child. Her paintings are an attempt to tell these stories by capturing delicate facial expressions and juxtaposing them with vibrant color and the dramatic interplay of shadow and light.
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Colombian multi-disciplinary artist Castel Diaz is a talented fashion photographer aswell as a great painter! It is hard to categorize an artist when he’s able to diversify his work so well. I was about to just review his photographic work, but I could not resist reviewing Castel’s great photo-realistic paintings. Which one do you prefer ? Photography or Paintings?

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