This unique and intricate threaded mosaic by Seattle artist Nicholas Horcher @nphdraws was a bold viewer’s favorite. When asked how he learned to do this, he said he just figured it out.
Collaged imagery in an Instagram aesthetic beautifully illustrates the artist’s friends who attended a small Catholic Mexican school, 2672 miles from Seattle. Colored pencil on toned paper by Camila Vallejo @buildgrist
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This sensitive piece by Alexia Giselle Gonzalez references mental illness, and a moment of self compassion.
I didn’t get this series of watercolor portraits at first glance. Then I noticed the fish, and that caused me to question what the heck was going on. After that the finger flying off the hand, the eyeball, and…. finally I saw the spider on her head. Portraits of fears by Elise L Hebert @seascribbling
The beautiful skill clearly applied to this illustration had me curious about the meaning. Jenny Peng’s artist statement illuminates it is about “the idea of waking up to the real world, and shedding childish dreams that are unattainable.”
The Slaughter of the Songbirds put voice to a horrifyingly common experience of Generation Z.
School shootings also stopped an artist from attending the reception. It saddened us all to hear that Claudia Marlenne Jasso Garcia was unable to attend the opening due to a school shooting in her area. The artist was not injured, but the shooting impacted members of her family and friends. Claudia Marlenne Jasso Garcia, we love your artwork, and we admire your strength.
Isn’t this a lovely colored pencil drawing? Klimt made more drawings, but they deserve their own room. They’re mostly nude women with their crotches on display. Take your colored pencils anywhere!
Frohsin is another painter on the list of Carlos San Millan’s favorites. He had talked about wanting to develop his work into more flat color fields, a move towards the abstract. These paintings by Frohsin and others are his inspirations. I liked these abstracted figures so much I did some research and found more of …
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[image_with_animation image_url=”10166″ alignment=”center” animation=”None” box_shadow=”none” max_width=”100%”] Max Ernst “Painting is not for me either decorative amusement, or the plastic invention of felt reality; it must be every time: invention, discovery, revelation.” – Max Ernst Max Ernst used texture rubbings to overcome his fear of the white canvas, igniting his imagination. He often put paper to the worn …
Pics from the Show: The Modern Youth Identity
This unique and intricate threaded mosaic by Seattle artist Nicholas Horcher @nphdraws was a bold viewer’s favorite. When asked how he learned to do this, he said he just figured it out.
Collaged imagery in an Instagram aesthetic beautifully illustrates the artist’s friends who attended a small Catholic Mexican school, 2672 miles from Seattle. Colored pencil on toned paper by Camila Vallejo @buildgrist
The pose of this unusual diptych is referenced in the graphite writing: “I had to do it to em.” To help me get the joke, I received a lesson on the meme it references.
This sensitive piece by Alexia Giselle Gonzalez references mental illness, and a moment of self compassion.
I didn’t get this series of watercolor portraits at first glance. Then I noticed the fish, and that caused me to question what the heck was going on. After that the finger flying off the hand, the eyeball, and…. finally I saw the spider on her head. Portraits of fears by Elise L Hebert @seascribbling
The beautiful skill clearly applied to this illustration had me curious about the meaning. Jenny Peng’s artist statement illuminates it is about “the idea of waking up to the real world, and shedding childish dreams that are unattainable.”
The Slaughter of the Songbirds put voice to a horrifyingly common experience of Generation Z.
School shootings also stopped an artist from attending the reception. It saddened us all to hear that Claudia Marlenne Jasso Garcia was unable to attend the opening due to a school shooting in her area. The artist was not injured, but the shooting impacted members of her family and friends. Claudia Marlenne Jasso Garcia, we love your artwork, and we admire your strength.
Claudia Marlenne Jasso Garcia
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