Alyssa Mees Trautz is a painter, illustrator and graphic designer based in Southern California. Throughout ten years of creating visual art, she has drawn inspiration from her fascination with animals, nature, and street art. She strives to learn, explore, and grow with each piece she creates.
Alyssa Mees' paintings are beautiful and the time lapse videos of her work are just as mesmerizing. Oh! Did I mention each video has some great music choices as well. She just published the making of "Growth", see that one and a few more below!
Artist Allison May Kiphuth captures scenes inspired by her surroundings in Maine and along the New Hampshire sea coast by squeezing them into small wooden boxes scarcely a few inches wide. Her mixed media dioramas are constructed from layered ink and watercolor illustrations assembled with pins and string inside antique boxes. The content of each artwork varies from piece to piece from underwater scenes of sea life, to magical tiny worlds populated by forest creatures.
Chinese artist DU Kun has long harbored a reverence for music and rockstars and he has created these amazing oil paintings. Each oil painting depicts the face of a musician as if it were a temple built in devotion to a god and borrows elements from Buddhist and Confucian architecture. Eyes are depicted as windows, tree branches or waterfalls as flowing hair, and the surface of skin as ornate wood facades gilded with gold.
Kun is currently exhibiting the “Revels of the Rock Gods” series as part of his first solo show in Japan at Mizuma Art Gallery in Tokyo through February 13, 2016. You can explore close-up details plus an archive of Kun’s work on his website.
Arhifab from Transylvania have created the Pogo line of lamps($96 to $258), inspired by nature. It has been designed using parametric tools, mimicking the opening of flower petals. The elements are CNC machined and assembled by hand. Its function is not only to illuminate, but it also decorates, enlivens and gives a personal touch to the places, thanks to its strong formal imprint and own identity. Check out the site for more images and pricing.
Who doesn't like butterflies and insects made out of matchsticks? These creations were created by British artist Kyle Bean. It makes you wonder how long it took him on each piece and how many matchsticks were used for each one. You can check out more of Kyle's work on his site.
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So many Whiskeys? Where do you start? Why not let The Many Varieties of Whiskey Wood Engraving ($185) help so you can keep track of them all. Laser-engraved onto a piece of sustainably harvested cherry veneer, this premium print covers all the major varieties of whiskey — Irish, American, Canadian, and Scotch — breaking them down further into groups like Rye, Blended, and Single Malt. The whole thing is encased in a custom walnut frame, and features an engraved cork at the center and whiskey barrel-like steel strapping at the top and bottom, with brass accents. Assembled by hand in Brooklyn.
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Designer Chris Milnes created these creative Buddha statues for ($10-30 depending on the size) that look like iconic characters from popular comic books, television shows, and movies. All created with the magic of the 3D printer. So check out his Etsy store to see more Buddhas and support this artist.
I think I would go with the C3PO Budda. What about you?
This is something that you don't see very often and I would consider it to be unique artwork. Chinese artist Li Hongbo transforms and carves out metal sculptures in knives and he has a huge collection of beautiful works of art. What do you think?
I'm not a huge fan of insects, however these are pretty slick. These were created by designer Istvan Giordano of Chatoic Atmosphere. This collection is nearly over 100 organisms with day/night variations called: Biotop from Polygonia, which was made in Cinema 4D using random values within parameters designed by Giordano. You can check out the full series over at NeonMob, a platform for discovering, collecting and trading digital art online.
