Simon Birch - laughing with a mouth full of blood

 A presiding theme in these works is theinterweaving of pain and pleasure, dark and light, antipathy and empathy. His subjects twist and turn in pain or ecstasy, fall or fly, break free of gravitational pull or get sucked back earthwards to their end. Drawing on his own experience of illness – in 2007 Birch was diagnosed and treated for a rareform of cancer – works such as ‘Cordite’ explore what the critic Susan Sontagcalled our “dual-citizenship” in the realms of the well and of the sick. The textured surfaces, where paint has been applied thickly with brush and palette knife, accentuate the struggle, giving a tactile sensibility to the paintings and suggesting an integral relationship between the artist’s facture and theexertions of the human figure on the canvas.

just coz its cute :')

Dima Rebus

what a drama about a gram

Abby Diamond

Yi-Ze Hei

ink and color on Xuan paper

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Florian nicolle, - Digital art!

So i think its time i get back on track!! but first, some research

I found this guy while browsing through that website Behance, which I've never visited before! His name is Carne Griffith and these portraits are done with tea and coffee, brandy, vodka and whiskey, ink, graphite and liquids (not paint, which you all know I love using other mediums other than paint!)

"Carne Griffiths’ artwork is born from a love of drawing and the journey of creating an image on the page. Working primarily with calligraphy ink, graphite and liquids, such as tea brandy, vodka and whisky he draws and then manipulates the drawn line."

Carne’s images explore both human and floral forms, figuratively and in an abstract sense. He is fascinated by the flow of line and the ‘invisible lines’ that connect us to the natural world. These may be considered lines of energy or spiritual connections between ourselves and our surroundings and his work is often an emotional response to images and situations encountered in daily life. These daily images are recorded in a dream like sense onto the page where physical boundaries are no longer important. Carne’s work takes us on a journey of escapism, often focusing on scenes of awe and wonderment, they offer a sense of abandonment to the artist and to the viewer an invitation to share and explore this inner realm.