Source Colossal   “The wind is my nemesis!” says Jennifer Latour, and rightly so. In her sculptural assemblages, single flowers or small clusters of blooms sprout from tree branches or thick stems, appearing like otherworldly forms standing in the landscape. A soft breeze could topple the Vancouver-based artist’s ephemeral works, scattering their delicate petals and spindly…

Source Design You Trust  Kapi Michalska is a graphic designer and expressive portrait painter based in Szczecin, Poland, working primarily in Procreate. Michalska’s signature style layers semi-realistic facial features with bold, abstract shapes and colorful, expressive brushwork, so the shapes she draws don’t just decorate a portrait but actively bring new meaning to it. Her…

Source Design You Trust  David Díez is a Spanish illustrator and draftsman from Salamanca. Díez specializes in detailed pen-and-ink and watercolor illustrations of robots, cyborgs, and creatures that blend cyberpunk, steampunk, and what he playfully calls “licantropunk” aesthetics — a personal mashup of werewolf mythology and punk machinery. His work often depicts intricate mechanical dragons,…

Source Design You Trust  Roberto Giacomucci is an Italian architect and designer from Ancona. Giacomucci built his professional career as an architect and industrial designer, founding Studio Giacomucci Design in 1994. He has collaborated with major galleries and design houses including Rossana Orlandi in Milan, Fragile Milano, Mint London, Matter of Stuff London, Bontempi, and…

Source Colossal   From materials we normally discard like padded packaging or the mesh sleeves that protect fruit from bruising, Suzanne Jongmans summons elegant and dreamlike Renaissance portraits. The artist drapes models in lush velvet fabrics and typically positions them against deep backgrounds in the vein of Leonardo da Vinci’s “Lady with an Ermine” (1489-91) or…

Source Colossal   Scientists have long studied how magnetic energy powers solar activity. The constant motion of plasma particles and the sun’s rotation are major contributors to its cycles and events, such as flares and coronal mass ejections, which lob huge quantities of plasma and gas into space. Sometimes these explosions reach the earth’s magnetic field…

Source Artsy Shark  You may have found yourself wondering whether you should lower the prices on your artwork just to make a sale. The post Pricing Your Art in a Weak Economy appeared first on Artsy Shark.

Source Colossal   Like many kids, I struggled with bedtime. I was a naturally anxious child with a vast imagination and siblings who loved to watch scary movies, leaving me capable of generating an endless array of terrifying things that could happen once the lights went out. To remedy this problem, my mother designated a particular…