MaryKt, full name Mary K. Theinert, is an artist living and working on Shelter Island, New York. Mary’s watercolor portraits are quite something: sometimes mysterious, sometimes sensual and other times slightly grotesque or even macabre. Mary believes that beauty can be subtle, and understanding beauty only begins when judgement leaves the room. I...
When I started Bleaq almost four years ago I never thought I’d feature embroidery. Now, four years and many artists later, I’ve started wondering if I should make an embroidery sub category… From the occult works of Adipocere to the anatomical pieces by Juana Gómez, there’s something magical about illustrating with thread. My latest embroidery...
Adam Oehlers is an illustrator from Norwich, England. Inspired by fairytales, myths, legends and other fantastic tales, Adam created stunning, detailed drawings that lure you into the stories they are telling. You might spot some familiar tales browsing his work, for instance his series on the lovely Alice in Wonderland. Adam on his work: “I like...
Matthew J. Levin is an artist living and working in Los Angeles. To quote the wonderful Guillermo del Toro: “Mr. Levin’s portraiture is both quirky and mesmerizing. Each of his little sculptural sketches becomes a three-dimensional snapshot of the bizarre. Just as the eyes in a classical portrait are meant to “follow” you through the room, so will...
Zan von Zed is a multi disciplinary artist from Sydney, Australia. There’s a red thread going through all of Zed’s work: whether it’s a sculpture, drawing, illustration or painting: the piece always shows a fierce, strong character. It might be the use of color, the strong highlights and deep shadows or maybe the dynamic poses and flowing hair:...
Thomas Cian is an artist living and working in Milan, Italy. Thomas draws everything that surrounds him: portraits of his loved ones, sight from his travels, animals, nature, and sometimes even several of these elements combined into one drawing. His hyperrealistic style combined with a sketch-like, maybe even slightly unfinished appeal give a...
Aida Pascual is a photographer living and working in Burgos, Spain. The movement of Classic Romanticism is one of Aida’s biggest influences, although she’s chosen a photo camera as her medium instead of a paint brush. One of the movement’s most well known artists, German painter Caspar Davis Friedrich, once said: “The painter should paint not only...
Andy Denzler is an artist living and working in Zürich, Switzerland. In his work Andy explores the sense of time, freezing one moment in time like you can do when you pause a movie. The glitches in his paintings might even remind you of years ago, when we still used VHS tapes that showed those lovely glitch strips when you paused, rewinded or...
Jolene Lai is an artist and illustrator born and raised in Singapore, currently living and working in Los Angeles. Although colorful and vibrant there’s a great sense of mystery in Jolene’s work: in her paintings she explores cities at night and let us meet their strange inhabitants. Jolene on her seductive aesthetic: “I find a preference towards...
Daria Endresen is a photographer and digital artist from Oslo, Norway. In her work Daria translates her most intimate feelings into haunting, dark digital illustrations. Daria on her aesthetics: “I am a dead fish in a cyanide sea. I like boys that look like girls and girls that look like aliens.” I like how Daria translates something personal and...
Hyperreal drawings always fascinate me: it’s a true gift to be able to capture what your eyes see on paper. Daan Noppen, an artist from Amsterdam, The Netherlands, takes that gift even further: his hyperreal works are larger than life. Next to that Daan likes to add a parallel reality to his works by combining the natural, realistic form of the...
Christine Miess is an analogue photographer living and working in Vienna, Austria. In her projects Time Collapsing and Lines Blurring Christine captures some of the most beautiful and well-known cities in the world in a way you haven’t seen them before, and makes you discover some of the most famous sight all over again. On her website Christine...
