Artist Interview: Darby Guise, Between Drawing and Writing

As I’ve said before, I really do think that discovering your passion is a matter of luck. And transforming that passion into a career, that takes talent and perseverance. We cannot leave everything to luck and just hope for the best. But what if you have several passions? Do people actually get that lucky!? The…

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Artist Interview: Irmak Dönmez About Expressing through Drawing

We are so grateful to get to meet rising artists and their work. Irmak Dönmez sent us a few samples of her drawing through our contact form. I had the chance to talk a bit with her about her greatest passion, so it is my pleasure to introduce you Irmak, the artist. Laura (Molempire): Tell us…

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Coffee Paintings on Antique Ledger Paper by Michael Aaron Williams

Michael Aaron Williams is a street artist who creates paintings on ledger paper from the early 1900s and 1800s, using coffee and ink. This antique paper, coming from the artist’s Great Great Grandparent’s rural Appalachian store, brings a touch of character into his work, which comes from the wears of time, and the coffee perfectly…

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Exhibition: Aleksandar Basic – The Origin of the World at Paul McPherson Gallery

Inspired by the controversial painting of Gustave Courbet titled “The Origin of the World”, UK based visual artist Aleksandar Basic creates a modern version of the 1866 painting in a series of mix-media drawings which will be exhibited in London at the Paul McPherson gallery this October. Experimenting with unconventional materials like human hair, spray paint and inspired…

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Kelly Boyle’s Spontaneous Illustrations

Kelly Boyle‘s art is driven by spontaneity and emotion, being a mixture of mosaic shapes and vitral -like illustrations, all combined harmoniously in a colorful complex explosion of colors. Her artwork stands as a representation of her own self, her view on the world and how she fits into the law of nature, being also…

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Rik Reimert’s Rotring Rapidograph Drawings

Rik Reimert draws some pretty amazing portraits of male celebrities, using only pen and paper and Rotring Rapidographs. Rik finds the analog aspect of his work very exciting, as every line is definitive and cannot be erased. Starting with a simple sketch, the artist then completes the details of the portrait using a Rapidograph, a…

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Mark Powell’s Vivid Biro Pen Portraits on Antique Envelopes [Interview]

London based artist Mark Powell has a rather unusual way of practicing the art of drawing. Using antique envelopes as canvases, he draws incredibly vivid portraits of elderly people using only a biro pen. His artistic path is also an unconventional one just as his art, so we got in touch with him for an…

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The Fantasy Art Drawings of a Romanian Artist

It’s not easy to affirm yourself as an artist nowadays, especially if you are a  young one, but this girl is determined to. We are talking about Andreea S., an eighteen year old student from Romania who developed from an early age an extraordinary artistic sense. “An aspiring animator and film-maker” as she describes herself,…

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