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Last month I posted some beautifully stunning portraits, most of which used unconventional mediums like embroidery and screw heads to create truly beautiful works of art.  These use more conventional mediums… but are anything but conventional.

 

Paul Cadden

After : Graphite on cartridge Paper A1 (yes, that means pencil on paper)

Although the drawings and paintings I make are based upon photographs, videos stills etc , the idea is to go beyond  the  photograph. The photo is used to create a subtler and much more complex focus on the subject depicted, The virtual image becomes the living image, an intensification of the normal.

 

Luke Haynes

[The-American-Context-#3]-American-Gothic
quilt base out of used and recycled clothes, linens, etc : 90″ X 90″ : 2010

I am interested in the choices we make to express ourselves to our world. The most apparent form of this is our clothes. We create an environment around ourselves to inform others how we desire to be perceived. By quilting I am initiating a dialogue between the immediate environments we create for ourselves, and the environments we inhabit. Where cloth, what we know to respond to as clothes, becomes the language of my work. The cloth becomes the medium that I use to create images and scenes rather than conceal and contain.

 

Shaka

du portrait de Lucian Freud 2.25m x1.40m Acrylics on paper 2011

 

Nick Gentry

 

Kyle Bean

Pencil shaving portraits | contributors page for Wallpaper* Handmade 2011