Toronto-based artist and illustrator Rebecca Yanovskaya creates striking ballpoint pen and gold leaf drawings on Moleskine. The bowing angel, titled Descent of Man, took the artist about two weeks to finish. She was inspired to create this piece after a trip to the Metropolitan Museum of Art. “Klimt, Mucha, Herbert Draper, Bouguereau, Waterhouse, Frazetta, and […]
Our Exquisite Corpse artist Catherine Martin creates incredibly intricate beaded skulls using traditional symbols and decorations. Each beautifully patterned and brightly colored skull is uniquely different from each other, featuring amazing craftsmanship. During a trip to Mexico, Catherine discovered the beading skills of a Mexican tribe called Huichol and fell in love with the beaded […]
Robert Polidori is a Canadian-born photographer currently residing in New York. He is one of the most acclaimed photographers of human habitats and environments. Polidori began his fascination with Versailles after winning an exclusive contract to document the restoration of the seventeenth-century palace. Photographs are full of thought-provoking contradictions, focusing on the signs of time […]
A Canadian artist Huguette Despault May has drawn Hawser Series, focusing on sections of a massive rope. She draws in great detail in charcoal, depicting a rope both intact and disintegrating into fibrous tendrils. The drawings are made at the scale of the human body, suggesting human muscle, hair and sinew. These ropes are metaphors […]
Erik Olson is a painter born in Calgary, Canada. He is a graduate of Emily Carr University in Vancouver, citing influences from Lucian Freud, Francis Bacon and Frank Auerbach. Olson makes a study of the effective ordering of parts. He creates striking, dynamic and expressionistic portraits. While painting stylistically and technically brilliant imagery, he uses […]
