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Illustration by Sarah Dennis

Rainey — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 15:55:14 +0000

Each one of Sarah Dennis’ warm, story book like illustrations are small self contained stories. Her work brings back memories of childhood, while also quenching my thirst for beautiful artwork.

Sarah’s work is inspired by nature, old books, friends and fancy dress. The artwork created from line drawings and is collaged together with an assortment of textures and contemporary techniques. The artwork created from line drawings and is collarged together with an assortment of textures and contemporary techniques.

You can see more from Sarah at sarah-dennis.co.uk.

Walking

Sailing

Fishing

Catching the Big Fish

Music Monday: Maserati, Monoliths

Rainey — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 15:26:56 +0000

As a visual artist, I always enjoy music that inspires me and keeps me going. This post is intended to celebrate great musicians and give visual artists a place to share great musical inspiration.

More from Maserati on ihaveadagger.net. Please send any songs that inspire you to create to showus@todayinart.com.

Paintings by Bridget Fahy

Rainey — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 16:52:38 +0000

Bridget Fahy paints ambiguous figures in scenes filled with texture and patterns like a quilted blanket.

Bridget Fahy has an extraordinary way of transmitting an emotional quality and dynamic to her paintings through gentle strength and stillness. Her paintings exercise the manipulation of paint and physical mark making. Her use of combinations of surface marks with the experimention and creation of new textures and the constant play between the elements of colour, line, shape and form have become distinct characteristics of her work.

See more great paintings at bridgetfahy.com.

25 Incredible Negative Photos

Rainey — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 15:03:11 +0000

In photography, a negative image is a total inversion of an ordinary, positive one. What was once dark becomes light and vice versa. Colours are flipped completely, with reds turning to blue and blues to yellow. The results are often diverse, with many negative photos, particularly those of people, plants and animals, taking on a ghostly or unearthly quality.

Here, we take a close look at 25 incredible negative photos, from straightforward negative snaps to gum bichromates and tweaked Photoshop colour inversions. Hopefully you’ll be able to take some inspiration from these shots and try to produce your own negative masterpieces.

Dandelion Puff Ball (Mike Baird)
Taken with a Nikon P6000, this close up of a dandelion is absolutely mesmerising. Although it might look like as though the photographer spent hours touching up the pic, in fact he simply opened it in Photoshop, clicked on Adjustments and selected Invert.

A Negative Rose (Bestrated)
The black lines emphasise its coiling form.

Negative on Candle Light (Pierofix)
This spectral figure looks this way thanks to the winning combination of negative photography and candlelight.

Negative Waterfall (FatMandy)
This image can be classified as a “happy accident”. When the photographer took the photo to be developed, it was printed in negative by mistake. The result is quite stunning. It shows water cascading down a reflective surface.

E-Lim-I-Nate the Negative (BeautifulRust)
Captured with a Nikon D5000, I love the clarity that negative photography brings to this very simple image.

Light Streaks in Negative (Chrisjfry)
These are lights on a Christmas tree. The photographer achieved the shot by waving his Sony Cybershot around before switching to negative.

Negative Feather (tanakawho)
Like flowers, feathers suit negative photography perfectly. You’ve got to love the colours and subtle tones in this captivating photo.

Negative (The One Next Door)
Under normal circumstances, a mouse would be classed as one of the most boring subjects for a photograph imaginable. Switch to negative HDR photography, however, and you get a colourful, appealing snap.

Girl and Dog (larrybobsf)
Using a negative photo as the foundation, the artist used watercolour pigment and layers of printing to produce this gum bichromate.

Windchime and Color Negative (wdj(0))
Negative photography brings out the most beautiful vivid colours in this swirling wind chime.

Infinite Beach (Cyron)
In this wonderfully eerie image, it’s almost impossible to tell where the beach ends and the sea begins. The large black cloud, which forms the main focus of the composition, looks awesome.

Decrepit Old Newark Jail (Kevin Keopke)
Negative photography brings out the true griminess of the entrance to this Newark prison. The graffiti seems to glow and the path extends infinitely.

Leaf C-41 (Len Komanac)
This is the surface of a leaf with all the vessels clearly visible.

Montagem de Incenso em Negativo (dias.leo)
The photographer of this image has captured the wispy trail of an incense stick perfectly.

Old Barn (Brocktopia)
Like something out of Scooby Doo, this seriously spooky snap of a barn is a print from an image that was scanned from a negative.

Light Trails in Fog (Johnrossnc)
This is another abstract negative photo which cleverly conceals its subject matter. The black streaks are in fact light trails captured on a very foggy night.

Slow Dancing (Jrlarimer)
The second gum bichromate in this list, this image was shot on 27 June 2010 with a Panasonic DMC-FZ35, but it looks much older with a real vintage quality.

Cactus (AnnieBodrum)
This negative shows a spiky cactus with greens and yellows inverted into varying shades of blue.

Pier 19 (Abi Skipp)
Pier 19 is a restaurant by Lake Wakatipu on the South Island of New Zealand. The result is tremendous with the bright trees contrasting against a dark, maroon sky.

Bricks (AndyCunningham)
This negative photograph of London’s Battersea Power Station really brings out the mammoth scale of such a gigantic industrial building.

Junkie’s Running Dry (Paul Excoff)
Plenty of work went into making this image look this great. This image has some great tones and texture.

Metro (Seriykotik1970)
Another dream-like image, this time showing Kievskaya Metro Station, Moscow. The photographer took a photo of a negative with his digital camera before inverting the colours on his computer, turning the yellows to blue.

Leaves Negative (Mammaoca2008- Back for a while)
This leafy photo is a visual feast with real depth and blues on show.

Neon Lotus (Tanakawho)
A negative image with some colour treatment added, this picture of a solitary flower is truly spectacular.

Sea Holly (dregster)
Nature photography becomes a new world to explore as a negative image.

0328001452 (Lah1971)

Lah1971 shot this this highly creative, otherworldly image of a goldfish. The colours look almost metallic.

This is a guest post by Tom Walker who is a full time writer with a passion for the arts. He is currently employed at an online store specialising in toner cartridges where he reviews products such as the MLT-D1082S, reports on the latest news and posts about advertising and design on their blog.

Music Monday: Jaguar Love, I Started a Fire

Rainey — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 14:48:35 +0000

As a visual artist, I always enjoy music that inspires me and keeps me going. This post is intended to celebrate great musicians and give visual artists a place to share great musical inspiration.

More from Jaguar Love on wearejaguarlove.com. Please send any songs that inspire you to create to showus@todayinart.com.

Fabulously Fun Drawings by Camellie

Rainey — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 16:24:05 +0000

Lady with ostric - interpretation of "Lady with an ermine"

Camellie is a talented graphic artist / illustrator pumping out some wildly imaginative and colorful pieces. Camellie works mostly with ink pens and markers adding the colors later in Illustrator.

Many of Camellie’s works are available as wallpapers for your computer or iDevices. Make sure you checkout Camellie’s website.

Sam - hand drawn and digitally coloured

Gorkin

On a trip - photo by Dacian Groza

Smook - pen and acrylic on canvas

Doof

Music Monday: The Black Keys,Tighten Up

Rainey — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 15:59:48 +0000

As a visual artist, I always enjoy music that inspires me and keeps me going. This post is intended to celebrate great musicians and give visual artists a place to share great musical inspiration.

More from The Black Keys on theblackkeys.com. Please send any songs that inspire you to create to showus@todayinart.com.

Typewriter Assemblage by Jeremy Mayer

Rainey — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 20:29:06 +0000

The sculpture of Jeremy Mayer gives typewriters new life and his intricate piece’s are visually interesting and fun to explore.

I’m very interested in assembly, particularly in nature. I pay very close attention to the strong current in science and technology flowing inexorably toward an emulation of natural systems. Over the years I’ve been watching the advances in molecular engineering and biotechnology with giddy anticipation and also with a faint ping of trepidation. I love the sciences and science fiction, and both disciplines often stress the importance of considering the ramifications of implementing new technologies. These interests figure greatly into my sculpture and drawings.

See jeremymayer.com for more of his work

Watercolor and Ink Drawings by Marco Zamora

Rainey — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 13:57:21 +0000

Working mostly in watercolors and inks, Marco Zamora creates large scale drawings on paper that deal with themes of anonymity, his environment, and the conditions/actions of the people that inhabit it.

I am very interested in the real, using objects and things that are lost, that transport, and materials of everyday use. I will be mixing heavy graphic imagery and soft reality. Color is being used as an attraction, as beauty and a distraction. My work is a comment on my experiences and feelings of society. I photograph what I see and use it as a fragment of time and reality to construct each piece.

It is “the world as it is”, to capture people in their natural state of being. This work is about memory and the unknown, where is it from and where will it go? Recognizing the unappreciated and the everyday routine. Playing with the idea of our waste and baggage.
To place ideas on the unknown, appropriating actions, meanings and photos. Everything is important.

Marco recently had a show in Barcelona and is showing at Wonderbread Factory, 171 14th Street
San Diego, CA until September 15th. See much more on marcozamora.com.

Overload

2012

Yesterday

White Line 3

White Lines 2

Reapropreated

Sunny Day

Install3

Music Monday: Tokyo Police Club, Wait Up (Boots of Danger)

Rainey — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 12:41:54 +0000

As a visual artist, I always enjoy music that inspires me and keeps me going. This post is intended to celebrate great musicians and give visual artists a place to share great musical inspiration.

This song is from Tokyo Police Club’s latest album “Champ” – released in June. More from Tokyo Police Club on tokyopoliceclub.com. Please send any songs that inspire you to create to showus@todayinart.com.