Illustrator Andy Gellenberg has created an brilliant portrait series consisting athletes such as Paul Rodriguez, James Lebron and Tiger Woods using nothing more than the logo of their sponsor – NIKE. The extreme attention to detail and careful use of color and positioning myriad NIKE swooshes make up the faces of the icons.
Tag / Portraits
Alberto Seveso – Double Exposure
Italian photographer and digital artist Alberto Seveso combines his high speed and figure photography to create beautiful surreal imagery.
Alessandro Pautasso – Hollywood Portraits
Alessandro Pautasso aka Kaneda is a graphic designer and illustrator whose specialty lies in vector art and mixed media.
Jen Mann – New Works
Jen Mann is a Toronto-based artist who creates magnificent portraits that are eerie, surreal and vibrant. We have posted her up before and we’ve come across some new works and there was no doubt in our minds we were going to post these up.
Bela Borsodi – Balloon Heads
Bela Borsodi was born in Vienna 1966. After studying graphic design and fine art he started to work as a photographer. In 1992 Bela moved to New York and in 1999 he focused on still life photography, which is still the main direction of his work. Bela lives and works in New York.
Oleg Shuplyak – Optical Illusion Portraits
Master painter Oleg Shuplyak creates beautiful optical illusion portraits of iconic people and artists of the past. Shuplyak uses elements of different painters aesthetic and manipulates it to helping his own work.
Mark Wagner – Currency Portraits
Mark Wagner was born quietly in the rural Midwest at the tail end of thirteen children. Since leaving the sandbox at the age of fourteen, he has continued his creative career in the fields of writing, collage, and bookmaking. He is co-founder of The Booklyn Artists Alliance, and has published books under the name Bird Brain Press and X-ing Books.
Zebrating – Illusion Portraits
We don’t know basically anything about Zebrating, other than what appears to be a group of artists who create magnificent street art works that fool the viewer and appears different depending on the angle which it is viewed.
Nicola Samori – Various Work
Nicola Samori was born in 1977 in Forlì and now currently lives and works in Bagnacavallo. An artist who has exhibited all over the world with a fantastic and unique painting skill all of his own.
Inspired Tattoo Portraits
Inspired is an artistic and journalistic project about tattooing. Inspired takes an active interest in the individual and gives a unique perspective on what it means to be tattooed today. The project aims to explore the psychological dimensions related to this singular art by emphasizing the creative process.
Tattooing is a matter of experiences and emotions. Inspired recants the experiences that have motivated these choices and highlights the diverse artistic influences behind them. Animated by a very personal aesthetic, Inspired promotes tattooing as an art and as a visual identity in constant evolution.
Tattooing is a way of life, and those who follow it give insights into their world through interviews, photographs and videos, realized in partnership with BIIMPROD.