Month: January 2017

Sophie Digard’s Parisian Design

Sophie Digard is a Parisian knitwear designer, and above all, a colorist. She began her enterprise in 1999. During the design process, Digard looks towards nature and artists Read More

Constanzia Yurashko – Be Yourself Inside and Out

Constanzia is a fashion designer I have discovered recently. Her works are unique and attract the attention immediately. Simple yet sophisticated. Read More

Arta deserturilor de Iuliana Tcaci

Despre Iuliana Tcaci și deserturile pe care le face, am aflat de la fratele meu. Eu iubesc ciocolata și dulciurile sub orice formă. Eduard știindu-mi slăbiciunile mi-a arătat într-o zi ciocolatele artizanale Read More

Tatyana Conne: “…my toys are the part of me”

Tatyana Conne is well known master of her craft in making personalised and so beloved by everyone fabric dolls Read More

Mystical and full of life creations by Tatjana Raum

Tatjana’s Raum love for dolls began when she operated her own Boutique some years ago and needed dolls for her shop window.
“I was so fascinated by the gracious figures that i started buying these dolls as well as busts on ebay. The fought of changing or even creating a manikin on my own, led me to search again and again for new materials and ideas Read More

Sculptural Hoop Art Embroideries by Ezgi Pamir

I was looking around to find more information about Ezgi Pamir, the artist who literally brought a breath of fresh air in classic embroidery Read More

Art project “Warm Day” by Irina Andreeva

The art project “Warm day” – is a warm felt story in a cozy space. Warm characters, fond memories with a warm heart and warm hands. The heroine is a little girl who Read More

Elena Shved’s grunge effect watercolor horse paintings

[The style of art as grunge art has become very popular lately. The word grunge, coined by the writer Paul Ramball, most of us associate with the subgenre of alternative rock originating in Seattle during the 1980’s. But, what about grunge art? Does such a movement, or such a phenomenon even exist? In design, typography, or the production of various other images, can we pinpoint a style and call it that? Regarding fashion aesthetics, the idea of ripped jeans, greasy hair, and worn-out t-shirts are generally connected to an idea of grunge, but in the visual art production, what would describe such a notion? What innovations, if any, did the grunge artists bring to the world of art?
The grunge artists and designers emphasized the idea of freedom and of breaking the rules by following one’s inner voice.
Stylistically, grunge paintings can be both abstract or figurative, but, they do lean more towards the figurative and the narrative. The depicted figures often look like cartoons or as creatures of a dream-world, showing an element of fantasy art here as well. With the atmosphere of a ‘working-class’, produced paintings above anything else erase any idea of an elegance of paint and often allow for the messy and unfinished look of the artwork.] source – widewalls.ch

In the city of Tolyatti lives a talented girl – Elena Shved, who’s paintings are classified as grunge art style. Her messy watercolor works are very appreciated all over Russia. The secret of the originality of her work lies in the fact that she uses watercolors with a high amount of diluted water. As a result each palette is so transparent, that the artist has to apply the color several times to be well seen.
Elena Shved draws on various topics, but especially beautiful in her paintings are the horses.
Here is what the artist Elena Shved says about her work:
“All the features that were in the grange as a subculture, refer to the painting as well – negligence, carelessness, contrast, “unruly”, expressive manner of performance. I like the expressive style of painting, I like all this dirt, drops, poured ink, even though I am not fully grunge like style, but in social networks my creativity, “dubbed” that way.
Once a friend asked me to draw a horse. Actually with this all started, at first it was just a custom order, and then I decided to paint a series, because my work was much appreciated. Maybe it’s a coincidence, but the horse was my favorite animal in the childhood.”

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For more paintings check artist’s instagram .
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Stunning colorful animal paintings by Emily Tan

Emily Tan is one of the most innovative and naturally gifted image makers of recent times. A minimalist, a maximalist, utilising multiple techniques and mediums together with a unique style Read More