A watercolor painting I did for The New Yorker, celebrating the new staging of The Sleeping Beauty ballet at the Met. I look at a LOT of ballet for reference when drawing my comics in order to imbue my figures with the same grace as they fly through the air. I was thrilled to illustrate something for an actual ballet this time! I’ve also posted a few sketches I submitted, just to show some of my process.
Photographer and designer Christopher Marley has a new book, Biophilia, which will be published April 14 by Abrams Books.
Christopher Marley’s graceful arrangements of jewel like arthropods
and delicate butterflies transform the world of insects into stunning
works of art. His keen eye for design combines with his entomological
passion to produce mesmerizing kaleidoscopic bug mandalas and striking
up-close-and-personal single insect portraits. These photographs present
the insects in their natural state, none of the images are digitally
enhanced.
‘Secret Garden’ was inspired by Soctland’s Brodick
Castle Gardens where her grandfather was the head gardener.
“The formal
rose gardens of the castle, the Bavarian summer house and lily-studded
ponds were wonderful places to play as a child; a great place to
cultivate a wild imagination!”
A Cambodian-born illustrator, painter and sculptor, Andrew Hem, is earning rave reviews and plaudits for his expanding body of work and already includes Adidas, Sony Pictures and The Los Angeles Times amongst his clients, with successful exhibitions in London, Italy and across the United States also in the bag. He left Cambodia with his parents as a toddler to make a new life in the US and now lives in Los Angeles. His formative years in graffiti art prepared him well though it was as an illustrator that he felt he’d found his true course. His artworks have a unique, edgy, slightly disturbing style that have won him many friends and supporters in the art world since his graduation just two years ago. This man is going places.