Even a mess :)

"Every man`s work, whether it be literature or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself"

Samuel Butler

On the Observation Deck

Jasper James is a commercial photographer who works with large companies such as Ferrari, British Airways, Ritz Carlton, Dockers and others. However, there are some noncommercial projects in his work. James is fond of travelling and he shoots what he'd seen.

We're interested in a series of pictures, known as "People and Places". These photographs show the city through the reflection of people, standing on the observation deck. They really impressed me. Such interpretation demonstrates the close relationship between the man and his environment. A person is a part of the city, and the city is a part of the person. Panoramic view from the top often makes us ponder on philosophical subjects...

 Big City Life in Watercolor

Maja Wrońska, a watercolor artist from Poland, is a master of architectural sketches. Her works are wonderful examples of modern watercolor painting. Inspired by the crowdy streets and squares of big cities, she creates real masterpieces. Her images have peculiar atmosphere that will certainly impress you.
Here you can enjoy the process:

 A sun ray in a gloomy day :)

Jack Tia Kee Woon is the aquarellist from Singapore, who works with a mixture of acrylic and watercolor paints. Many art critics claim that he has actually rediscovered the opportunities of watercolor. His works are filled with flowers and sun. You can admire them again and again. His magic brush creates sunny airy paintings. The bright and vivid colors emphasize the delicate transparency of watercolors, bringing a feeling of certain lightness, spring freshness.

 The artist is especially good in his landscapes and urban sketches: the narrow city streets, wrought iron lights and signs, vintage cozy yards... You can easily find the influence of Chinese and Japanese traditional drawing techniques in his works: a lot of light , swift lines, transparent strokes of paint creating a whole image, which is transmitted by the contour. These images emit some kind of energy. Like sunrays, they will fill you up with positive emotions :) Enjoy!

 Touch the masterpiece

 

This artist really leaves a piece of herself in every painting,  actually creating the largest collection of personal fingerprints :)

Judith Ann Brown paints pictures with her fingers, using a powder of charcoal to create large symmetrical patterns and sweeping landscapes.  
 
For nearly a decade, Braun, 65, has dipped her magical fingers in graphite and made enormous, imaginative patterns and even detailed landscapes of trees and waterways on wall-sized canvasses.
Her landscapes of winding rivers, rolling hills and trees are so eye-catching, it's hard to believe they're created without traditional equipment. A series of paintings created such an original way, is called «Fingerings».

 An interesting idea!

 

Jon Burgerman, the leading British illustrator, offers you or your children to choose the color scheme for the interior yourselves. You can see the peculiar images of the artist and funny pictures that make up the kaleidoscope of imaginary cartoon characters. Such interesting wallpapers will turn an ordinary apartment renovation into entertaining activities :) A great idea! I like it!!

Hyper-realistic paintings by Linnea Strid

 

If you do not examine the images carefully and only briefly glance at them, you can think these are ordinary photographs. But if you look closer, you will be surprised for sure - you see paintings! 

Linnea Strid draws her paintings using oil paint, on canvas or plywood. Her hyper-realistic works are fantastic. Light brush strokes of the artist convey the effect of water so vividly, that she really seems to know water mysteries or some secret qualities... Otherwise, how does she do it?? Even my screen seems to get wet :)