Esra Roise is a freelance illustrator based in Oslo, Norway. Inspired by music, peoples, magazines and everyday-life situations, she creates fresh and colorful fashion illustrations. So far she already worked for Nylon, Vice and Vogue (China) amongst others.
You wanna know more about Esra Roise and her work? Then read our interview after the jump!
“Amy Earles makes things, prefers autumn, dreams in color, reflects from half closed eyes…”, the artist has written in her little profile on her website. And yes, all her drawings and paintins involve a kind of dreamy and autumnal atmosphere with forest, dark skies and stars.
She loves painting with gouache on paper, and often her pictures are turned into lovely looking paper dolls – Amy is clearly fascinated by dolls. We pinned her down to answer us some questions about her life and work.
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Please say “Hello” to Nick Cocozza, a young Illustrator and Street Artist from Scotland.
Nick is a illustration graduate from Duncan of Jordanstone College of art, Dundee. To most of his work he tries to take a light hearted and fun approach. He enjoys using a variety of mediums, which reflect his playfulness as well as his sense of humor. Most of his graffiti-style illustrations present a vivid depiction of the street and gang culture in the UK that he experienced in his youth.
Nick’s work, which is also available on ARTFLAKES, got so far featured in several exhibitions in the UK and by talent spotters he is being picked as the one to watch in Scotland. His illustrations also got featured in a variety of magazines like Popshot Magazine and now here.
Check out our interview after the click!
An illustrator who draws her inspiration mainly from vintage porn magazines? Well! Anyway, we liked the pictures of Toronto based Kathryn McNaughton right away, which is why we boldly asked her some questions concerning her work.
Her pictures are a wild mixture of drawing, painting and collage, in most cases with a hidden message and always slightly gruff. But even without an extensive interpretation it is fun to click through the portfolio of this girl.
What she had to tell us? Read it yourself!
Please welcome the lovely Melissa Azizi to our blog this week.
Melissa lives and works in Sydney (how we envy her!). When she is not working on projects for her own Production Company CineDream, or supporting and creating films, she creates beautiful and dreamy pictures.
One of Melissa’s photo projects is The Daily Foto, an initiative where she shot 365 photos in 365 days (!), which she sells in her Etsy shop and where she donates 5% of each sale towards a charity of your choice. We like!
Where she draws her inspiration from, which her favourite chocolate is and who she thinks we should interview next, you can read right after the click.
Had the Brothers Grimm published their fairy tales these days, surely they would have asked Japan based artist Katogi Mari to do all of the illustrations. I guess there is nobody who is more skilled to create precise and wonderful fairy tale like illustrations with brush and paint.
For our series of interviews she, who is fascinated by nature, animals and of course the romantic stories from Germany, answered some questions about herself.
Today we would like you to meet Matthias Heiderich, a young self-taught photographer who is currently living and working in Berlin.
He mostly photographs Berlin in his very own unique and distinctive way. His work often explores the complexities of colour, is very architectural and minimalistic. You’ve never seen Berlin like this before!
Matthias aka massju also makes music on his own label “WeirdAndWired“, a netlabel for weird electronic music.
If you would like to know more about Matthias and his work, have a look at our interview!
Today, hot of the press, in our blog: A crunchy interview with illustrator Iker Spozio living in San Sebastián, Spain.
Iker is kind of oldschool in a charming way: His artworks, he says, are completely handmade and not modified at his computer.
Hats off, we say, because the results are pretty impressive: Several band posters and illustrations the artist has on board, which all slightly radiate an atmosphere of the 1960s or 70s.
So how did Iker become an artist in the first place? Read about it after the click!
Please welcome Ben Aslett, illustrator living in Devon, whom we chose as an interview partner this week.
His illustrations are simple, yet expressive: Little characters with oversized heads working at their computers, driving their cars or jogging around town, literally keeping their inner clockwork busy.
On our ARTFLAKES blog he explains when and why he started making art, what his usual workday looks like and what taste of chocolate he likes best. Go on reading, my dear!
In 1991, having graduated from the University of Applied Arts in Berlin, Anne Siems moved to Seattle – where she still lives. For our series of intervies we invited her to a virtual cup of tea and talked about her work.
In the beginning she created her pictures – which were mostly inspired by medical and botanical books – on waxed found paper. 2001 she changed to working on big panels, where now her impressive and enchanted looking artworks are still painted on.
Flower garlands, fawns, colourful birds and girls with fragile dresses evolve a dreamy atmosphere, whose imagery often reminds of the novels written by Jane Austen or the Bronte Sisters
Where she takes her inspiration from, which artists she admires and how Anne Siems spends a perfect sunday, you can read after the click.