Artist Patrushka just sent us this great Day of the Dead piece she did and an upcoming exhibition announcement.

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U.K. artist Stuart Whitton creates some very nice, expressive pencil works with a fragmented and multi-layered feel to them- 

His website is here.

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Gorgeous paintings of women, full of lusty volume and sensual detail by Kris Lewis.

The artist's website link is here.

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Taking an ordinary phone book, Alex Queral carves a face into this object of so many faceless names. With the book, a very sharp X-ACTO® knife, a little pot of acrylic medium to set detail areas and a great deal of talent, Queral literally peels away the pages like the skin of an onion to reveal the portrait within. Once the carving is complete, he will often apply a black wash to enhance the features and then seal the entire book with acrylic to preserve the work. However, he never loses the line registration; and the book remains quite pliable.

“It can be quite tense work sometimes because it takes a long time to finish and when you cut something away you can’t get it back again. Nearing the end of the carving and then suddenly having it ruined by a careless cut can be pretty crushing. You have to start all over again.” 

Sources: Projects Gallery, Flavorwire
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Levi van Veluw´s photo series are self-portraits, drawn and photographed by himself: a one-man-process. His works constitute elemental transfers; modifying the face as object; combining it with other stylistic elements to create a third visual object of great visual impact. The work you see therefore is not a portrait, but an information-rich image of colour, form, texture, and content. The image contains the history of a short creative process, with the artist shifting between the entities of subject and object. - via Laughing Squid

Levi van Veluw's website here.

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Catrinas are the lady skeleton art associated with The Day of the Dead in Mexico. Today's post takes a look at the modern day, darker portraits by Sylvia which are heavily based on the Mexican folk art. Beautiful sensual and adorned, these ladies are magnificent in their embellishments and costumes.

She rocks right? Sylvia's site is here. http://www.sylviaji.com/

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Dan Bergeron creates wonderful street art with large faces painted on top of whatever surface he finds. I love the way they work and interact with the existing plants, surfaces and textures.

Dan's Site
Faces of the City

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Just love Rich's mixed media paintings. Regarding the title of his recent solo show "Beautiful Failures", he says - "there is a beauty in it, because there is a beauty in failing."

His website here.

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Belinda has a lot of beautiful portraits of people with designs and flowers painted on their faces. Some seem like wallpaper, some like tattoos but all are well executed and riveting images.

For her website: http://www.belindaeaton.com/

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Billy Joe Armstrong from Green Day

Stumbled on these acrylic paintings from Patricia's Flicker site and just loved their in-your-face attitude. Lots of bold, brash colors and some great famous faces. 

Harvey Milk

Isadora Duncan

Sly Stone

Lady Gaga

Artist's Flicker site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/patriciamitchellart/4979225509/

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