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.
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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.
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Adriean Koleric (Thinkitem) creates digital artwork of beautiful worlds that are familiar and extremely foreign at once.  In many of these works, an absurd, large scale conflict is underway between familiar toys, TV characters and even household appliances.

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Quirky Machine CD Cover

Today’s colorful illustrations are by the talented illustrator Simon Wild.  Wild’s creations are rich with complex composition and color.
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Warning! Giant Quail of Death

Jacob Souva is a freelance illustrator who is creating some pretty rockin’ work. His illustrations are rich with gritty color and texture.
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Dear Andy,

Rafa Jenn uses simple geometric shapes and patterns to create his artwork.  Most of his pattern works represent something or someone known in popular culture.
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Lichtfront creates stunning visual translations of music and sound. Their latest work is a collaboration with Grosse8, another design agency based in Cologne.
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After getting an iPad, I couldn’t wait to get my hands on Brushes and Sketchbook Pro. Both of these apps are really nice on the iPod and iPhone, but I had not taken to them like I had hoped. I found that the screen size was crippling for me and this was too great a hurdle for me to overcome. The iPad is a much better tool for drawing since the size is closer to the size of a sketch book. The iPad also has more room to include app menus and options.

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Looking for a new sketchbook, I decided to venture out from the normal black hard cover acid free books that I usually buy.  I spent some time looking and reading about various sketchbooks and found many great choices.  I realize that there are many more options than I have listed here, so if you know of an awesome one that I missed, please let me know in the comments below.
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While writing 22 Beautiful & Creative iPhone Apps I found many wonderful apps exploring different aspects of user interaction with art, imagery and sound. Experimental Art applications like these are not new, but user access to them and how they interact with them is.
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