Andrew Meyers' art is all screwed up, in the best of ways. The artist creates portraits out of screws, the elevation of each screw creating the image for a sculpture/painting. Sometimes he paints the tops of the screws to make the portrait morph into a pointillist image. Love all the little X's of the screws!

His more traditional paintings are really nice as well.

Andrew's Website

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Matt Doust creates large very realistic faces and was recently 

named a finalist in the Archibald Prize.

His website - LINK

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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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Jus In Bello, Judith Peck

Stumbled upon these beautiful portraits by American artist Judith Peck. On her site she has many traditional portraits but it is the more fractured ones that emote the most. They have wonderful broken textures mixed in with the faces, creating a sense of damaged vulnerability that I just love. 

"Beauty and pain, life and death come into balance, and the viewer becomes the philosopher, drawn into introspection on the meaning and preciousness of life."

Veiled Gender, Judith Peck

Silencing Eve, Judith Peck

Untitled, Judith Peck

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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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