Ed Wheeler | Santa Classic

In a series of self-portraits dressed as Santa Claus, Philadelphia-based artist Ed Wheeler, photographer, incorporates himself in classical paintings from Botticelli to Caravaggio to Monet.

In so doing he transforms the masterworks of art history from the Renaissance to the Surrealists. Santa Classics, his derivative art series, is based on a digital photography process.

Wheeler’s goal is to pay homage to the original paintings while offering art lovers an additional reason to smile.

Francesco Hayez | The Kiss, 1859 | Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan

The Tragic Life of Van Gogh by Alireza Karimi Moghaddam

Watch beauty directly;

See them through your soul’s door.

Don’t let technology snatch

the little time you have to relish real beauty.

Maybe this chance won’t repeat for us ever.

Know the value of encountering true beauties,

and don’t turn your back on them. | by Alireza Karimi Moghaddam.

Léo Caillard, the photographer who dresses classical statues

Leo Caillard is a contemporary artist internationally recognized for the quality of his marble sculptures as well as for his digital creations at the cutting edge of new technologies.

Leo Caillard opens a dialogue between eras through the use of these two mediums and the unique aesthetic of his art, mixing figures from ancient statuary and abstract digital forms.

Born in Paris in 1985, he graduated from the prestigious Goblins school in 2006 then from fine arts in 2008.

He then left for New York for 2 years, the opportunity there to meet the contemporary art scene and start these first digital creations.

Andrea Otte: "I Hope You Still Believe In Magic.."

"I am Andrea Otte a freelance photographer situated in Antwerp, Belgium, a dreamer and the creator of my own little world.

Just a little lady on a tiny planet, a positive thinker, a seeker of beauty and magic in everything.

I believe life is all about passion and finding your own kind of magic.

My eye for all the beauty around me, big and small, has always been active, but only the last four years I have been trying to capture the wonders of the world, accompanied by my Nikon D5300".

Naomi Fuks, 1966 | Mixed media painter

Naomi Fuks Is a contemporary artist applying her unique mixed media techniques over canvas combined with acrylics and chalk drawings.

Naomi began painting at the age of three.

She later studied painting and drawing at the Avni Institute of Art and Design and photography and illustration at the Vital Center for Design Studies in Tel Aviv.

In the first years after graduation, inspired by Gustav Klimt, she specialized in acrylic paints combined with colored pencils.

Yovka Mechkarova, 1976 | Romantic painter

Bulgarian painter Yovka Mechkarova / Йовка Мечкарова was born in the town of Kalofer, Bulgaria.

She graduated in art education for Applied Arts in the town of Troyan in 1995.

She currently resides in Veliko Ternovo (Bulgaria).

Andhika Ramadhian, 1996 | Minimalist graphic designer

"Between minimalism and surrealism, inspired by anything around me, a bit my own life, a bit of internet culture, a bit of film I watch, or a visit to the art gallery, I want to express feeling, I wanted to get an emotional response from audience" - Andhika Ramadhian.

Andhika Ramadhian is a multi-disciplinary designer based in Indonesia.

He is known for his iconic artistic approach of creating images that depict surrealism and minimalism, and provoke philosophical thinking through his visuals.

Charis Tsevis, 1967 | Designer Neo futurista

Charis Tsevis / Χαράλαμπος Τσέβης o Χάρης Τσέβης, è un visual designer Greco che vive e lavora a Pafos, Cipro.

Ha conseguito un Diploma in Graphic Design presso l'Akademie für das Grafische Gewerbe, München ed un Master in Visual Design presso la Scuola Politecnica di Design, Milano.

Gestisce un modesto studio sull'isola di Cipro al servizio di clienti in tutto il mondo.

Roberto Weigand, 1968 | Illustratore surrealista

Roberto Weigand è un illustratore di libri per bambini e designer di copertine di riviste in Brasile. Ha studiato Architettura all'Università di San Paolo e nel 1991 ha iniziato a lavorare come illustratore per giornali, riviste e libri per bambini.

Dal 1999 lavora come illustratore e Infografista per la rivista Veja, dal 2001 diventa responsabile delle copertine della rivista Istoé e dal 2002 inizia a scrivere per la rivista Publish.

Lavora essenzialmente con il computer, utilizzando diversi stili e tecniche per illustrare data la sua esperienza con la progettazione grafica e la fotomanipolazione.

Il delicato Surrealismo dell'illustratore Akira Kusaka

Akira Kusaka / 日下 明 è un illustratore e grafico freelance con sede a Osaka, in Giappone.

Akira Kusaka lavora solo con Photoshop dove crea tutte le sue opere d'arte.

Crea per pubblicità, copertine di libri, libri illustrati per bambini, web design ed altro ancora.

Web colors | I codici HTML dei colori

Web colors are colors used in displaying web pages on the World Wide Web, and the methods for describing and specifying those colors.

Colors may be specified as an RGB triplet or in hexadecimal format (a hex triplet) or according to their common English names in some cases. A color tool or other graphics software is often used to generate color values.

In some uses, hexadecimal color codes are specified with notation using a leading number sign (#).

Cynthia Decker | Imaginary Realism painter

Cynthia Decker is an artist who created the realistic artwork rendered in 3D effect, using the artistic techniques of pixels instead of painting.

"- I live and work nestled in the beautiful mountains of Western North Carolina. My home office studio faces right into the woods adjacent to the Blue Ridge Parkway. Every day I am surrounded by the perfect balance of technology and nature. I couldn't wish for more. As a child, I would draw and paint at any opportunity.

My Mother was the head of the computer science department at a local community college, and did some work in artificial intelligence for NASA.

My father was an engineer for Ford Aerospace. Because of my parent's jobs, we had a computer in the house when not everyone had home computers.

I became comfortable with them as a kid and was starting to do digital art with paint programs in the late 1990s".

Morten Lasskogen, 1986 | Surrealist 3D painter

Morten Lasskogen is a Copenhagen-based visual artist.

- "After working as a photographer for nearly 10 years, in 2018 I started experimenting with 3d. I discovered that a lot of the things i knew about lighting and composition worked more or less the same way as with photography, but the big difference was: 3d didn't have the same limits - I could literally control the sun"!

Carol Cavalaris (?-2020)

Carol Cavalaris ha vissuto nel mezzo di una foresta nell'alto paese del Colorado.

Era la bellezza selvaggia dell'ambiente circostante che ha ispirato i suoi dipinti digitali di fauna selvatica e natura.

Carol espone il suo lavoro in diverse gallerie del Colorado, tra cui la Grace Gallery nel famoso quartiere artistico di Santa Fe Avenue a Denver.

Era è un artista professionista freelance, specializzata in dipinti di animali selvatici, floreali ed animali domestici.

Artista raffinata, Carol Cavalaris celebrava l'unicità di ogni essere vivente con il suo ampio corpus di lavori realizzati con tecniche miste.

Stanislav Aristov / Станислав Аристов, 1982 | Flame art

Russian🎨 photographer Stanislav Aristov / Станислав Аристов, better known by his moniker Pol Tergejst is an artist from Ekaterinburk, in Russia, who decided "to play with fire", literally. He uses flame shapes to create some kind of flame-shape paintings, he composes different images of them. All this involves a lot of photographing.

Aristo made a splendid series of images with matches between 2010 and 2013. It's after taking part in a themed "line of life" photo contest from Formula foto that the idea of using lighted matches came to him.

The "stroke of genius" or as Stanislav said himself: "it's not the first idea with one things that shows another things :)" reminds us all the poetry that has fire in the collective unconscious. Thanks to Stanislav for giving us some of his time answering our questions and for sharing with us his work.

The Art of Photo manipulation

Photo manipulation dates back to some of the earliest photographs captured on glass and tin plates during the 19th century.

The practice began not long after the creation of the first photograph (1825) by Joseph Nicéphore Niépce who developed heliography and made the first photographic print from a photoengraved printing plate.

Patrick Le Hech (French, 1965)

Illusionist photographer Patrick Le Hec'h began his training at the École d'Art Graphique Corvisart de Paris. On his release he worked briefly as an illustrator and graphic designer before accepting the artistic direction of a communications agency.

Inspired by the romantic and surreal, is detected in its early creations of the atmosphere that are visionary painters: Giorgio De Chirico 1888-1978, Tanguy, Bocklin, Delvaux and René François Ghislain Magritte, 1898-1967.

Invited to present his paintings at galleries renowned Parisian Avenue Matignon, rue du fg St Honore, at the Grand Palais, as well as Monte Carlo, Cannes, Palm Beach, Chicago or New York, his work now recognized as contained in number of private collections, earned him awards on the occasion of major arts events.

Tullius Heuer | Surrealist digital painter

Tullius Heuer is a self-taught digital artist from Maceió, Alagoas, Brazil.

He uses techniques like Photomanipulation and basic digital painting to bring his ideas alive.

He masterfully blends his pencil art simulations with real photos in his magical three-dimensional manipulations and the results leave us wondering what would happen if drawings came to life.

Fractal Art

Fractal art developed from the mid-1980s onwards.

Fractal art is a form of algorithmic art created by calculating fractal objects and representing the calculation results as still images, animations, and media.

It is a genre of computer art and digital art which are part of new media art. The mathematical beauty of fractals lies at the intersection of generative art and computer art. They combine to produce a type of abstract art.

Ben Heine, 1983 | Illustratore e fotografo

Ben Heine è illustratore, ritrattista, caricaturista e fotografo Belga.

Nato ad Abidjan, in Costa d'Avorio, attualmente risiede a Bruxelles.

Ha studiato arti grafiche, scultura e si è laureato in giornalismo.

Nella serie "Ritratti di celebrità", iniziata nel 2010 e attraverso l'uso di software grafici e tanta creatività, Ben ricrea volti iconici della storia e della cultura pop con cerchi piatti di varie dimensioni e colori, per dare loro un aspetto dinamico e tridimensionale.

Heine lo definisce come una sintesi di Pop Art (arte che include immagini della cultura popolare) e puntinismo (tecnica pittorica che utilizza piccoli punti distinti di colore puro).