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The Letter *  -    Sir WilliamRussell Flint , 1958.

Scottish, 1880-1969

watercolour with bodycolour,  23.5  x  36cm., 9½  x 14in.

Marvel at Tiny, Perfect Staircases Made by a Secret Society of French Woodworkers

Who are the compagnons?

Since the Middle Ages, France’s “compagnons” have lived idiosyncratic existences, steeped in mystery, ritual, and a devotion to their trades. Even today, these master craftsmen have certain quirks: As young people, they live in boarding houses together in towns across France, where they spend their days learning and training to become the country’s greatest tradespeople. After six months in one place, each tradesman will pack up and move on to another French town, and a new hostel, to learn more skills under a new master. Thanks Atlas Obscura.

Mando Marie’s “One Trick” at First Amendment Gallery.

Opening on Saturday, June 2nd, 2018 at First Amendment Gallery in San Francisco, California is the absolutely sensational solo exhibition of artist Mando Marie entitled, “One Trick.”

Amanda Marie uses graphic stencils and images redolent of “Golden Age” storybook imagery. She frequently features the signature characters of a young boy and girl. In 2012, Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art held a solo exhibition of her work and noted that these stylized figures: “seem to have been lifted from the pages of a mid-twentieth century children’s book and have traded the protective home of childhood nostalgia for a slightly more adventurous and unsettling world, somewhere between dream and reality.”  Alongside recurring graphic themes of children and animals, she favors twin, repeated or mirrored imagery, developed with multiple uses of the same stencil on the artwork.

Her street art and outdoor paintings and murals incorporate the same primary technique of stencil painting on a large scale.  In gallery, museum or other indoor exhibitions, she typically creates artworks using aerosol paint, acrylic and sewing pattern paper, on watercolor paper, canvas, or wood. She also uses screen printing technique and gel transfers.  For outdoor work, the dominant materials are aerosol and acrylic.

Take a behind the scenes look at her creating the work for “One Trick” below:

Sophia Kayafas

Creature Creature, Paintings.

Loving these wonderful paintings from Australian artistic duo Creature Creature.

Photo manipulations by Aditya Aryanto a.k.a ditpict

Seleted works by Ditpict, a 20-years-old retoucher from Jakarta, Indonesia.

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Amir H Fallah

Nocturno II   -    Anton Misset

Dutch,b.1935-

KwangHo Shin

Tracy Helgeson

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