Daniel Vendrell Oduber aka Vandrell draws attractive babes, and we all like it.
I like girls a lot myself, and always enjoy drawings of sexy ones.
Every week, I try to show you a nice selection of artists who portray illustrated babes. This week, the artist Daniel Vendrell Oduber is playing with video games beauties.
Daniel is an artist based in Barcelona, Spain. That’s a little bit geek, but that’s what we love about the artist sexy artworks.
Feel free to have a look at more artworks of sexy girls.
Daniel Vendrell Oduber aka Vandrell nice artwork called Sophitia
Ivy, another painting of a cute girl with massive boobs
Gant is a Baltimore artist now living and working in Brooklyn.
Ok, he will say that in the interview so…
What more can I say?
I just arrived in Paris, it’s 6 in the morning and I’m a bit exhausted.
While I go get a coffee feel free to read the whole thing.
He says a lot of cool things. More about the Brooklyn artist Gant Powell.
Black and white drawing
PLEASE INTRODUCE YOURSELF
My name is Gant Powell. I was born in Baltimore MD and now I live in Brooklyn. I’m an illustrator.
HOW WOULD YOU DESCRIBE YOUR WORK?
Whenever I think my work is one thing it starts moving in another direction, so it’s easier for me to talk about the things that influence my work, the ideas that motivate me. I have a love for campy movies, which might come from my Baltimore roots, but also probably has a lot to do with older gay culture. LGBT issues and struggle filter in regularly, with perceived gender roles and internal struggle featuring largely. I stay current with news and culture, I think that’s important for a commercial artist because our job is to distill and interpret our world for the masses. Just like it is a journalist’s job to stay as analytical as possible, I think we should be opinionated and fearless. I don’t know if this describes my work, but these are goals and ambitions I have for my work.
Artwork of a devil creature sitting on a sleeping man
PLEASE SHARE WITH US YOUR WORKING PROCESS
I start with brainstorming, often writing some lists, either on sketch paper or just keeping it in my head, and i search the web and books for images that I think show a mood I want. Sometimes i search for examples of Baroque ornamentation, sometimes scenes from Casablanca. It depends on the project, obviously. After I find some images that offer me a foundation I start thumbnails for compositions. I work from reference fairly heavily and so I am usually simultaneously searching for more images while drawing. Then it’s on to a larger sketch, then a sketch in light pencil on heavy paper. Once that sketch is finished, I will start using washes to build up tone in the composition. It becomes a weird combination of structured and organic process here. I know what steps are necessary to make the image, but it is through constant analysis and experimenting with mark-making that the image becomes strong and interesting and mine. So I keep building up and painting with gouache all of the things I had planned on including, and then at ever stage I am also thinking about where I can use pencil marks, chalk, and maybe I want to try something new like spray paint (i haven’t gotten there yet but i’m working towards that).
Painting by Gant Powell
HOW DOES YOUR ENVIRONMENT INFLUENCE YOUR ART
I keep my studio relatively organized. Folks I’ve shared studios with might scoff there, because it wasn’t that way when I was in grad school, but since working from home it has been necessary. The added bonus is that when I don’t have to search for an eraser or that pencil for 20 minutes, I really can just focus on the art. And that is the point, right? I work in my living room, where I am surrounded by books, artwork, interesting furniture, patterns, and really good light. I have to be around things and people I like or everything gets pretty crappy.
Drawing by the US artist Gant Powell
WHO ARE YOUR INFLUENCES?
I love Mark Ulriksen’s work. And Demetrios Psillos too. Picasso, during his early years. I look at a lot of fashion work because I think that really good fashion illustration is all about the mark making and I focus a lot on mark making. So I like Bil Donovan and David Downton. 60’s lifestyle illustration, and Robert Weaver. All of my professors from college. My classmates, my roommate. They’ve all influenced me.
Gant Powell artwork artwork of a man attacked by girls
ANY LAST WORD?
Don’t force decisions, just allow them to float to the surface. I think forcing decisions often leads to inauthenticity and that will be a struggle to get right if you commit to it. I have to go through so many options before I can commit to something that actually feels right.
Post-it War is a new phenomenon in European offices.
French creatives who work in open spaces are busy.
A couple of years ago, they would all try to “change the world” by writing hippy stuffs on the parisian advertising posters.
The new trend is to create pixel art on the windows of the open-space by using post-it.
If you go to work with your fixed-gear bike, spend the rest of your day downloading iPhone apps while creating useless corporate jokes in your office (that you will then post on Facebook), and make 3000 or 4000 euros a month as a reward for your efforts, then you’re probably a French “creative”. More about the creative phenomenon called Post-it war.
Post-it version of Zelda
Meeting in an open space surrounded by Pacman so-called “artworks” displayed on the windows
Creatives posing with their Post-it creation of Mario Bros
Interview with the inspiring Australian female artist Lisa King.
Recently I told you about Lisa King last show Fanciful Faces.
I’m back for more, with an interview and more artworks.
The artist did a lot of successful shows recently and will come to visit me in the island of gods in December.
See you there mate. More about the Australian female artist Lisa King.
Portrait of Lisa King creating a street artwork
PLEASE INTRODUCE YOURSELF
My name is Lisa King. I am 29 years old, I currently weigh 45 kilos, I can drink like a 45 year old man, I have a neck tattoo of something that resembles symmetry (yet not one on the other side), I am very much a lady that loves wearing black, I recently fell in love with the visual representation on the hindu religion (however as yet has not made its way into the influence of my work) and I hold a beautiful compulsive disorder where I have to be learning new things all the time. Either that or drinking too much wine. My name is Lisa.
Series of three gorgeous artworks exhibited
HOW WOULD YOU DESCRIBE YOUR WORK?
I usually get in trouble for saying cross medium, but today i dont care. Im way too much of a baby in this game to be knowing exactly what the fuck Im actually doing. So… Im a cross medium artist. I work in the areas of oil painting, sculpture and woodwork and would probably label myself as a low brow painter that is paving a path to a career in fine art. Hectic much?
Sculpture installation for an exhibition
PLEASE SHARE WITH US YOUR WORKING PROCESS
I have recently just finished two small solo shows in a few underground bars in Adelaide. The pieces mostly consisting of woodwork and oil paint on longboards, along with some portrait drawings, paintings and prints. Up next Is my very first Gallery solo show, which will be at Magazine in Adelaide, end of November. The work will be a deeper investigation to the process I am working on at the moment; Start with drawing a portrait, sculpt it on a deck, add some woodwork, make some oil paintings and print some stuff here and their. The primary piece for this show however will be the very first large scale oil painting that I have done on canvas. Its a self portrait, a wanky one at that so i wont delve too much. From here i head to Bali, make way to melbourne for some change, hopefully get a residency in Paris for three months and return home for a big fat exhibition titled The French Connection. Downtown LA with the Guys who sponsor me from Loaded Longboards in CA is on the table also. Plans always change though.
Drawing by the Australian artist Lisa King
HOW DOES YOUR ENVIRONMENT INFLUENCE YOUR ART
The environment in my head? Im actually a bit of a hermit, so if you can call my apartment an environment then I say… mediocre! The balcony is perfect for the morning coffee and the lounge with the internet gives me all the investigation I need for my influences and updates on the world but besides that Its pretty low key. No plants and landscape thats for sure! Of course I have all the art on my walls and my canvas in front of me which is pretty damn sweet but the city generally does not give me too much, I mean well besides the pub and the regular pissheads. My work is very much people based and as much as i love the characters in this town, im ready to travel, meet new folk and be in fresh environments that do influence me a little more.
Artwork installation based on customized spay-cans
WHO ARE YOUR INFLUENCES?
Brett Whiteley, Bill Henson, Mark Ryden, Sam Flores, Os Gemeos, my parents, Alonso Sanchez, Miss Van, Camille Rose Garcia, Kathie Olivas, Ron English… to name a few. I would probably throw Andy Warhol in their for being a dick…
Lisa King artwork detail
ANY LAST WORD?
Yeah, more people should: watch less TV, drink more alcohol, eat only when hungry, take more influence from simpler and healthier ways of life, give more money to the less fortunate in the world, and try to seek more innate happiness.
Every week, I try my best to show you an inspiring collection of some of the best street artists from around the world.
This week, discover a nice selection of artworks by the Spanish artist Liqen. More images of the inspiring Street art from Liqen.
Mantro, street art on a building
The Spanish street artist invade the streets of Mexico with colorful artworks
Urban graffiti at its best
Cara, a face painted on a wall
Bicefarl is a urban painting by the Sanish artist Liqen
Cedric Poulat is a talented French digital artist who portrays really sexy girls.
Illustrated girls can be very sexy when they are portrayed by such cool artists.
Every week, I show you an awesome collection of illustrated babes.
This week, French artist Cedric Poulat. More about the French artist Cedric Poulat.
All Sexy girls.
Harley and Ivy, artwork by the talented French artist
Lara Croft is back in an inspiring and sexy drawing
Illustration of a gorgeous blond-hair young girl
Zatanna, another great drawing by the French artist Cedric Poulat
Learn more about Aron Wiesenfeld in this cool interview.
I wish I wasn’t an artist.
Because if I wasn’t an artist, I would probably make way more money, and would love to spend that cash on Aron’s art.
I’m a total fan.
Of course the artworks are more than impressive on a technical level, but it doesn’t even matter because of the emotional feeling that this artist manage to infuse in every piece.
But we are not here to talk about me.
Let’s listen to what the master has to say. More about the US artist Aron Wiesenfeld.
Aron Wiesenfeld charcoal drawing called David
PLEASE INTRODUCE YOURSELF
My name is Aron Wiesenfeld. I’m an artist, and I work mostly in oil paint and charcoal.
Landfall, another inspiring artwork by Aron Wiesenfeld
HOW WOULD YOU DESCRIBE YOUR WORK?
I do a lot of large scale paintings and drawings, usually with one central figure. The relationship between the figure and their environment is important, and the relationship between the figure and the viewer is also important.
Princess, black and white drawing by Aron Wiesenfeld
PLEASE SHARE WITH US YOUR WORKING PROCESS
My inspiration is usually based on something I had an emotional reaction to. The initial idea isn’t even an “idea”, more like an instantaneous flash from something I saw, or read. I usually don’t know the reason why it struck me, only that it hit something down deep. Then I sketch the idea, and mess around with it to try to distill that strong feeling that I had. The subsequent decisions during the process of painting are likewise trying to get closer to that feeling, and to express it. When the painting is finished, I like to think about the stories that could be behind it, and what it’s world is like outside the edges.
Snow bed, colored drawing by the US artist
HOW DOES YOUR ENVIRONMENT INFLUENCE YOUR ART?
Anything I see could be the spark for the next painting, like something in a movie, a person I saw while driving, or a sentence in a magazine.
WHO ARE YOUR INFLUENCES?
I go through phases of loving certain artists. Right now I’m really excited about these small paintings that Goya did of bandits in caves. The is a lot of suggestion of violence, but the details are obscured by the darkness, leaving the worst of it up to the viewer’s imagination. I find it absolutely intoxicating when an artist leaves that opening for the viewer to participate in the telling of the story. Goya did that so well in his later, more personal work. Generally I find I’m very drawn to scenes of twilight and the mystery of near nighttime, by artists like Whistler, Millet and many others.
The Nightingale, gracious girl by Aron Wiesenfeld
ANY LAST WORD?
The paintings are made totally for myself, but hope others will feel something like what I felt while making them.
My friend from Zaragoza has been a talented director and editor of commercials, music videos, documentary and fiction since 1995.
He worked for brands such as Ikea, Renault, Heineken, Iberdrola, Horcones, El Corte Ingles, and much much more.
He also likes to play darts and to eat “frutos secos” with my best friend Leto.
Yes he is Spanish.
Extract of a videoclip for the Spanish band No Truck Truckers
PLEASE INTRODUCE YOURSELF
I’m Ignacio Bernal, a spanish film director from Aragón.
HOW WOULD YOU DESCRIBE YOUR WORK?
Fiction, music videos, commercial, video art. Stories. Simplicity. Rhythm.
Canto A La Libertad, a Unesco video by Ignacio Bernal
PLEASE SHARE WITH US YOUR WORKING PROCESS
When I tell a story -either fiction, commercial or music video- I first come with an idea. I edit it shot by shot, setting the style and the rhythm, trying to make it clearer. I listen to a lot of music related to this story, because music brings me images and a necessary mood that helps me to tell it from my own point of view. At this point the hard work is already done. Then you just have to film it.
HOW DOES YOUR ENVIRONMENT INFLUENCE YOUR ART?
I love to know the thoughts and feelings from the people around me. I observe how they behave in certain situations. They give me all I need to know to understand how everything works. Stories are seen and starred by people. We musn’t forget that.
Extract of the video for Tedx Zaragoza by Ignacio Bernal
WHO ARE YOUR INFLUENCES?
Caravaggio always, and also Kubrick, Buñuel, Picasso, Dalí, John Wayne, good music, good wine, women and western.
New book of the LA cholo legendary artist Chaz Bojorquez.
Cholo art and visual codes may be the latest craze for US and european hipsters, who saw the LA spanish gangsta lifestyle depicted on TV or in some trendy galleries.
But when the hype will be gone next season, it will stay a true and meaningful lifestyle for real people like Chaz.
Respect.
Recently, Chaz was part of the Carbon event in Melbourne, where he was doing a conference about his impresive and inspiring background as an artist. More about the legendary LA graffiti artist Chaz Bojorquez.
Buy his book.
Paul Davies tells us more about his artworks in an exclusive interview.
I first met Paul Davies when I was living in Sydney (Australia), working as an art director for Acclaim magazine.
Paul has his studio located at China Heights, the gallery where I was doing the Sydney stop of my last touring exhibition.
A good opportunity to meet again and exchange a few words with this nice and talented artist. More about the Australian painter Paul Davies.
Paul Davies in his studio in Sydney
PLEASE INTRODUCE YOURSELF
Paul Davies Australian Artist based in Sydney at China Heights studio.
Painting of a modern house, typical of Paul Davies’ work
HOW WOULD YOU DESCRIBE YOUR WORK?
The focus of my painting is predominantly based on the relationship between the built and natural environment.
Exhibition by Paul Davies
PLEASE SHARE WITH US YOUR WORKING PROCESS
My practice primarily involves photography, stenciling, and acrylic painting, with which my first experiments began in 2002. These works depicted Sydney street scenes mixed with researched popular culture images. The layering process of this technique created on the canvas a visual diary of my immediate surroundings. This method of free association i.e. assembling researched images, collected from my studio floor, onto the canvas, allowed me to experiment with different medium, which is something I still use now to explore various concepts in my work.
Painting on canvas by Paul Davies
HOW DOES YOUR ENVIRONMENT INFLUENCE YOUR ART
I often travel within Australia or overseas, on research trips, to find source material to photograph and sketch. I enjoy this part of the process because I don’t know what I’ll find. When I return to the studio I print these images and stick them up around the space, which gives me inspiration for the paintings. China Heights studio is located close to Sydney’s CBD and I find this urban location vital in creating my works which combine the built and natural environment.
Artwork by the Australian painter Paul Davies
WHO ARE YOUR INFLUENCES?
Peter Doig
Sergej Jensen
Harry Seidler
David Schnell
Neo Rauch
Rachel Whiteread
Stefan Kurten
Ansel Adams
Matthias Weischer
ANY LAST WORD?
Upcoming exhibition “Portraits” at Tim Olsen Gallery, Melbourne, opening 11th October and touring to the Gold Coast City Regional Gallery through November!
