Jenny Dolfen

Jenny Dolfen

Why yes that is a Lord of the Rings picture up there, and yes I do enjoy the Lord of the Rings series in both its book and its movie format. Though it's been some time sense I haven't read the books so I should probably do that. Anyway's that is all irrelevant the important part of this the artist. Jenny Dolfen, a beautifully talented artist with flair and style. Everybody wants the new hip modern look, to be at the forefront of cutting edge design so for me seeing an artist with such an organic and natural feel is truly a treat. Although she does work with the computer from time to time even her digital work has a more natural and traditional feel. To me some of her work is reminiscent of the art nouveau which is a pleasure to see as I only know of a few artists who mange to cooperate the style into work and have it feel natural and beautiful.

Dolfen is also an absolute sweet heart for having several tutorials on her Deviantart page helping those who wish to follow in her footsetps. Her style is unique and stands out wile avoiding the pit falls of being trendy or dated and for that I applaud her. If you want to stay up to date with all of her going ons might I suggest following her blog?

  

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Ertaç Altınöz

Ertaç Altınöz

 

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Artsquish

Artsquish 

Or B. Barber according to her profile, is an exceptionally talented costumer. She creates masks, boots, gloves, wings, staffs and other elements to create some of the most stunning costume pieces I've seen available for public purchase. Although her work is not cheap it is defiantly worth it, made to order and crafted for looks as well as durability I'm shocked it took so long for me to discover her.

It seems like she can make anything, and have it seem natural! So many times I've seen people make costume pieces for mythical creatures with strangely shaped legs and it just ends up looking horrible. I don't know how but she found solutions to even the most puzzling of costuming questions. Such as with her Gargoyle feet, if you look you can see that the persons foot is actually flat on the ground allowing for easy movement and solid balance.

Another type of beautiful and amazing creations are her moth wings, made of fabric and foam they keep the feel of being moth like while being flexible and durable. With a little partnering with a fellow artist they were able to create hands free wing mechanism with programming!

I would love to someday order costume parts from her for the LARP I play at, I would certainly have the best costuming there for the none human (and non elves) there... or anywhere for a long ways. Her commission statues is posted on her deviant profile, though for more details about commissioning her visit her livejournal. But to top it all off, she is also a talented illustrator.

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Genzoman

Genzoman

Another week another artist, I'm thinking about trying to write a post a week and then slowly working my way up to one a day as I'm not very good with sticking to it right now. But that is neither here nor there, what is here right now though is none other then Genzoman himself! I've been watching him for a while now and he comes out with new stuff all the time, a substantial part of it is of fandoms that I enjoy.

However after seeing piece after piece of new art I have to admit they are all somewhat blurring together. I feel like a lot of it is the same composition with the same colors with the same style. Not that there is anything wrong with that, but it gets sort of dull. I feel like I've seen all of his art at this point even if something is "new" because they all sort of look the same. Maybe it's how he color his pieces of work? I've found that also help with all the different pieces blending together.

Don't get me wrong he is still an exceptionally talented artists who is defiantly worth checking out, this is just my humble opinion. One thing I really like about his work is his pull of inspiration from mythology and folklore of the obscure nature. Nearly every piece has a story or paragraph describing the historical tale of what is depicted, not only do you get to look at pretty art but learn some ancient legends to!

 

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Body Paint

Body paint "One of humanity’s oldest forms of visual expression". Unfortunately I can't link you to the talented artists or company that produces these beautiful images as I am not sure who they are. All I can do is show you the facebook page where I found them. I have been a fan of body painting for many years and it seems like every day new and beautiful expressions of the art form are posted on this page. Each is truly inspiring in it's own right and a work of are incomparable to others. Not only is the painting done well, and most of the time in great taste, but the photography is excellent and the colors stunning.

  

From Black light paint to fake lingerie everything seems to of been done with elegance and poise. This pages gallery is filled with beautiful piece after beautiful piece. If I were a model I certainly would love to work with them at some point.

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Justing Gignac

I've been gone from here for quit a long time and for those of you who still check this (which I'm surprised at the numbers) I'm back and I plan on staying back (call it a super late new years resolution), I've been reading a lot of blogs lately and I realized that I don't have to write it this way and this way only. It's MY blog and I can write it however I feel like and include in it whatever  I deem should be included. But for now this is all irrelevant, the meat of this post is about an artist with an interesting way of selling garbage to the world.

Justing Gignac

I don't know how he did it, or where the idea ever came from. He makes substantial profit by rooting through New York Cities garbage, packaging it in smell proof boxes and selling it for $50 all over the world to hundreds of eager shoppers. I discovered this phenomenon from The Nester which is a home design blog I recently discovered. She was doing a series of Lovely Limitations speaking of how you can take "garbage" and turn it into something beautiful and unique. I think Justing did just that.

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Qinni

Qinni

Well so much for my attempt at writing everyday, oh well you win some you lose some. At the very least you know I'm trying! Moving on, todays artist is the talented Qinni who's work stretches the imagination and holds infinite folds of inspiration. I find her work to be most pleasant not only in it's detail and abstract feelings but also in it's vibrancy and emotion. As it stands I have nearly all of her work saved so as to cycle every few minutes as my computers background! Might I suggest the same for you?

Well regardless of weather or not you take me up on the brilliant idea of looking at her work every day you can not deny the level of depth that can be found in her work. I know everyone interprets art differently and none of them may be what the artist was aiming for. To me her piece with the cat and the koi fish (I think it's a koi?) relates how cats have nine lives and how such time that can be found in a life can not be caught like some creature of prey but understood and appreciated and cherished in ones own mind.

P.S. Might I encourage you to view her work in it's largest form, there are many hidden details that are hard to see at this size. (Such as strawberry clouds)

 

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