And yet not a day goes by on Mole Empire without discovering a new promising artist. This time, our attention goes to Princess M, a young freelance artist based in California who creates amazingly beautiful black ink and water color illustrations. In an attempt to give human emotions a concrete form, the artist creates complex and somehow…
Manuel Cafini, the Italian based artist who captures motion in photography has just discovered an extension of chronophotography. Known as early Victorian motion photography, chronophotography combines several frames of movement into a single image. The pioneer of this type of photography was French scientist Étienne-Jules Marey who came up with it to describe photographs of motion,…
Named 2012 Design Artist of the Year by the Design Center of the Americas, master glass artist Henry Richardson is an innovator into the field of glass sculpture. With techniques known primarily to architects, the artist uses hand-chiseled plates of glass fused through a high-intensity light welding process he innovated. Taking mainly large-scale forms, his sculptures feel translucent…
The creative realms of Spanish born film-maker, Guillermo Barreira, have included director, producer and writer. His career began in 2006 with the short film The Son And The Daughter. Currently based in New York, Barreira works with Codebreaker Productions and his new film, Aquelarre – whose title means an assembly of witches in Spanish, represents…
There is something in Jessica Tremp‘s imagery that makes you feel like home wherever you are watching it. Natural lighting, mostly outdoor locations, nudity here and there, but a type of innocent nudity that tends very little towards eroticism is what her photography shows. A Melbourne based photographic artist, Jessica came to our attention with her latest…
There are many ways that artists use to approach an oil painting. However, artists would have to be knowledgeable on the techniques and approaches of this type of painting prior to the commencement of their work as all steps have to be handled carefully. Among the many ways an artist could utilize in painting, there…
Supernatural is a series based right on its name; that it is supernatural. It is inspired from various urban myths of America, with an attempt to unveil the mystery behind some of them, or just simply scare the living daylights out of you. The series takes a dark tone, with our main heroes Dean &…
Based in Aachen, Germany, KEF! is a young artist who uses the walls of different European capitals to expose his abstracts looking characters, Kef and Kefline. Expressive and playful, these seem to appear inconspicuously with their curios looks and cheer up the most unexpected urban places. Asked what his characters represent and what inspired him…
So here we are – the season of Valentine’s Day is approaching in all its red and chocolate-orientated glory. It’s not all about the candy though as the romanticism of this time of year is closely linked with the sensuality that different types of music can bring, whether it is pleasure of swooning from Frank…
Carla Dias, French make-up artist has got “Mole Empire under her skin”. Not literally, but figuratively of course, with this special effects make-up that she dedicated to us, as part of the “Mole Empire imagined by others” series. With the idea that what we post here on Mole Empire is so sticky that it gets…
Happy New 2013, filled with excellent art features! As the New Year has already started and there are a lot of artists waiting to be featured on Mole Empire, we taught of stopping for a moment and looking at a retrospective of our 15 Best Articles published on Mole Empire in 2012. Here’s a selection…
At only 23 years, Spanish Dara Scully is not just a photographer. She’s a free spirit, a storyteller, and a character in her stories, stories which mix fantasy elements of a child’s world with erotic and nude elements of a grown up’s world. It’s a mysterious world oscillating between two extremes, worth discovering and diving…