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45 Beautiful Examples of Animal Photography

Igor Ovsyannykov — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 15:50:34 +0000

Taking photos of animals can be very challenging. First and foremost, you will need tons of patience. Just like landscape photographers wait hours at a time to get the perfect sunlight, animal photography requires lots of tolerance. Studying the animal prior to shooting, will help you understand it’s behavior and predict their actions. The photographs we will present to you today, demonstrate great use of color, exposure, blur settings, shutter speed, and focusing techniques.

“Immaculate- Reflections Of Mary” at MF GALLERY

Martina Secondo Russo — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 14:09:22 +0000

“IMMACULATE- REFLECTIONS OF MARY” AT MF GALLERY

MF Gallery is proud to present “Immaculate: Reflections of Mary” opening reception February 11th, 2012 from 7 PM to 10 PM.

The Virgin Mary has played the longstanding role of a mother, daughter, wife, and saint. This iconographic female figure’s influence on artists has been expressed through songs, poetry, paintings and statues throughout history. Today she is represented in film, television, t-shirts, stickers, tattoos, and even visualized on toast, allotting her a most unusual occupancy in popular culture.

Immaculate: Reflections of Mary seeks to reveal artwork influenced by the Virgin Mary. This unique collection will show us how her image has transcended from a figure in religious institutions into modern culture.

Artists participating in this exhibition hail from a variety of mediums such as printmaking, tattooing, painting, sculpture, animation, and traditional drawing methods. Artists include: Alex McWatt, Un Lee, Shannon Beal, Greg Maillard, John Russo, Dean Raoofi, Matt Ellis, Tamara Santibanez, Russ Spitkovsky, Max Kahan, Martin Mazorra, Daniel Albrigo, Eddie Peralta, Sue Jeiven, John Cebollero, Rie Hasegawa, Justin Sanz, Bruce Waldman, Martina Secondo Russo, Frank Russo, Nathaniel Shannon, Drew Maillard, Bianca Panzaram, Shannon Daugherty, and Kirsten Flaherty.

MF Gallery is located at 213 Bond St. in the Gowanus area of Brooklyn. Admission is Free and open to all ages.

Opens Saturday, February 11th, 2012 and runs through Saturday, March 17th, 2012.

Viewings by Appointment Only.

Artwork is also available for viewing and purchasing online at: http://mfgallery.net/Immaculate/Immaculate.html

Curated by Kirsten Flaherty and Shannon Daugherty.

Ludo in Chicago

Steven — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 13:57:01 +0000

French street artist LUDO made a quick, sweeping tour across the U.S. with stops in Los Angeles, Chicago, and New York. His signature wheatpastes are hard to miss, often hybridizing insects and plants with mechanical objects such as tanks and airplanes. Photographed by Brock Brake are from here in Chicago.

Virtual Labyrinth by Sergio Daniel García

Sergio Daniel GarcÃa — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 12:32:01 +0000

The project consisted in the creation of a series of graphic images, whose purpose was the dissemination of a contemporary art exhibition. The artists were a collective of multimedia designe; Me Company, which is specialized in the creation of striking images according to this esthetic. More than 40 positions of hands were photographed for doing the compositions later. Everything was accompanied by a complete graphic, stationery, brochures and so on.

Awards:
- Exposed in MadinSpain (one of the events of design and creativity most important celebrated in Spain).
- Awarded in the international competition celebrated by Vistaprint.
- First prize in the international competition: IV Show Young of Art of La Rioja.

‘Critters & People’ Out of Hibernation & Exhibiting at WWA Gallery

Lin Shi — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 01:35:03 +0000

Hop, run and squirm to WWA Gallery on February 18 as we give everyone a great reason to come out of hibernation with a breakout show ‘Critters & People: and Things of That Sort.’

Featuring new work by six young, up-and-coming artists; Danielle Buerli, JAW Cooper, Jessica LL Dalva, Tom Haubrick, Sinae Park and Bryce Takara, ‘Critters and People’ will be a shining example of the new crop of talents that call LA home and where our local art scene is headed in 2012.

‘Critters & People’ provides the platform for these six to do what they do best. The result is an extraordinary collection of 2D and 3D works running the gamut of medium and technique.

For up-to-date information on the show and the artists, please visit http://www.facebook.com/events/177451255695743/

45 Visionary Examples of Creative Photography #8

Igor — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 19:47:18 +0000

This is our eighth edition of the ongoing creative photography series. More than often, the images collected are manipulated. Photo manipulation is the application of image editing techniques to photographs in order to create an illusion or deception. Instead of using technical retouching, most of the images are creatively retouched.

Tutorial: Create A Minimal Single Page Portfolio With HTML5/CSS3

DesignWoop — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 09:28:12 +0000

This tutorial is the second installment of how to create a minimal single page portfolio using HTML5 and CSS3, take a look at part one where I initially designed the single page portfolio concept. In this tutorial I will walk you through the basic front-end build and what resources I used to rapidly build the page.

Shaolin Temple by Tomasz Gudzowaty

Erica — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 11:16:49 +0000

Tomasz Gudzowaty was born in 1971. He is particularly interested in non-commercial sports, and also those that are not present in the media, sports that are exotic, atypical or somehow outside the mainstream. He cooperates with Focus Fotoagentur in Hamburg and Warsaw’s Yours Gallery.

Elena Vera Solodovnikova

Anna — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 16:09:07 +0000

In her works Vera is trying to escape everyday environment ,
represent not the reality but an image of it, its reverse side. This images do not
belongs to certain time and place.
Mysterious, melancholic abandoned landscape where are erased all time
and space borders .
Throughout her works Vera want to show different conditions of consciousness;
and states of mind-expectation for something, anxiety, solitude …

Robert Tirado’s illustrations

Robert Tirado — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 22:53:34 +0000

“Robert Tirado is an illustrator, graphic artist, currently based in Madrid.

His style is characterized by mixing a wide variety of digital and manual techniques, mainly inspired by female beauty, fashion and photography, supported by the geometry, art and music.

Tirado has had the opportunity to exhibit his work in major galleries in America and Europe.

His works have been published in books like “The great big book of fashion illustration” * anova books, UK * and “Back to the roots” * Belio, Spain * â€¦ as well as in prestigious magazines like Computer Arts UK, Territory magazine, Belio, Kurv, juxtapoz * online *, among others.

Teaching experience for over 8 years, currently teaches portfolio, sketch and color at Istituto Europeo di design “IED”, Madrid. “