Celeste Ortiz is a young freelance photographer based in San Antonio, Chile. She does great series of analog or digital photography looking for some mysterious moods. With a nice sense of self-portrait and an obvious taste for music !
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Julian Landini is an art student, living in Berazategui, Argentina (south of Buenos Aires). His work is basically an attempt to celebrate the everyday life as a resource using sensuality, showing not only circumstances, but also people around him everyday. Julian Landini is not yet very well know but I’m quite sure his portfolio will quickly spread the internet… His drawings using pens, pencils, paint, watercolors or digital tools are terrific, with much personality and a very nice use of colors. The compositions are sometimes fun or sensual, but always beautifully living ! This is definitely our favorite portfolio for this early 2013.
HICAVELINCA for Arjowiggins, photo: Jonathan Icher
Maud Vantours is a French designer and artist, living and working in Paris. She graduated from the school Duperré, and then followed a Design training with a specialisation in textile and material research.
Her work is focused on colors, materials and patterns. Her style is made of original multicolored graphics and dreamlike landscapes. Maud Vantours works with luxury brands as well as mass market brands ; her works has been shown both in France and internationally as well as in several professional fairs like Maison&Objet.
Today Maud has just joined our free iPhone and iPad application dedicated to paper art and called Paper Art Trends. She kindly answered a few questions for that occasion:
Hi Maud, who are you ?
Maud Vantours, 27 years old, designer and artist.
How did you come to work with paper ?
I started to work this material during my art studies.
Paper is my favorite material, I love it because it is fragile and malleable as well, its thickness is almost imperceptible, but accumulated it becomes dense and tough. I superimposed it, then cut layer after the layer until it gain volume and have quite a third dimension. I like the idea of using a basic material that become a noble after working and sculpting.
How would you describe your work, your personal style ?
It is about accumulation and superimposition of layers… This was inspired during a journey to Cuba: the colorful walls of the old houses are damaged by the wet weather, so the people cover it with new layers of paint with different colors and so on.
Since that time I did experiments, worked different techniques that were developped in a more personal style, colorful, detailed and dense.
What qualifiers do you use when talking about paper ?
Smoothness, flexibility, malleability, brittleness, an endless choice of colors and textures.
What do you like most in what you do ?
Creation, the beginning of a project it has something exciting mixed with a small dose of apprehension. Not even knowing where we are heading, feel, try to innovate, create a new story, a new aesthetic, then find the idea to be developed and finally produced it. In fact it’s the creative process that I love.
In your imagination, is paper hot or cold?
I think the paper is a hot material, because of its plant fibers.
Nicola Felaco is an Italian graphic designer and Felasquez is his portfolio. Felasquez comes from a mix of artist name Velasquez with his surname Felaco… His research come from a mixed background in design, illustration, and technology. Using different kind of vectors each time, he paints abstract faces.
Sandrine Estrade Boulet is a French artist who creates very a very original kind of street art, picking up some twisted situation on the streets of Paris and making them a new amazing composition. Probably inspired by comics she sees monsters or people where anyone would see… nothing. Her art is very creative and funny.
Finally, Sandrine Estrade Boulet’s work is a mix of drawings and photography… She creates unexpected pictures that definitely stay in memory. Represented by lebookmaker.com
More images through the thumbnails below…
Mark Tucker is an American photographer who is doing an indredible work through a series called “mothers” and where he is using wet plate collodion. This early photographic process was introduced in the 1850s and it requires the photographic material to be coated, sensitized, exposed and developed within the span of about fifteen minutes, necessitating a portable darkroom for use in the field.
Jennifer Collier is a famous paper artist from the UK. Her practice focuses on producing unusual paper ‘fabrics’, which are used to explore the ‘remaking’ of household objects. The papers are recycled maps, postal cards or letters, then treated as if cloth (main technique employed being stitch) a contemporary twist on traditional textiles. More paper inspiration on the Facebook page “Paper Art Trends“.
If you’re in a mood for doing yourself some paper craft, then visit Minieco this site run by Kate Lilley is a great place to get free templates for the most graphic Valentine’s card, Christmas wraps, sweet decorations and many other printable templates. The design are simple but always bold, and with a great style !
Eric Weeks is an American artist who received a MFA from Yale University in 1994. His work involves the contemplation and exploration into the nature of human relationships, while making narrative photographs that reference a wide-range of cultural influences. Eric Weeks did series of photographs of his wife, “World Was in the Face of the Beloved” showing a high level of attention removing all the creative stops.
Eric Weeks features in the permanent collections of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The Art Institute of Chicago, The Museum of Contemporary Photography and Maison Européenne de la Photographie (France), among others. Also represented by Pablo’s Birthday (NYC), Galerie Hug (France), Jackson Fine Art (Atlanta, GA), and EDS Galeria (México).
