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Mariusz Lewandowski Painted Apocalyptic Monoliths And Lone Witnesses To Cosmic Horror, Turning Personal Nightmares Into Surreal Oil Masterpieces
Source Design You Trust Mariusz Lewandowski was a Polish surrealist painter (1960–2022) from Działdowo who lived and worked in Górowo Iławeckie, Warmia and Masuria, creating oil‑on‑canvas works dominated by mystical, apocalyptic and otherworldly motifs. Without formal art training, he started by painting shop signs and funeral ribbons while working at a metal factory, then sold…
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An Artist Paints Aristocratic Frogs, Masked Lemurs And Weird Florals In Lush Gouache, Turning Classical Portraiture Into Surreal Dreams
Source Design You Trust Bill Mayer is an American illustrator and painter based in Decatur, Georgia, celebrated for exquisitely rendered gouache paintings that fuse classical still life and portrait traditions with strange, whimsical and sometimes dark fantasy characters—royal frogs, masked lemurs, birds in suits, flowers with human faces and more. A Ringling School of Art…
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This Artist Paints Dark‑fantasy Characters, Then Scans Them Into Limited Prints For Occult‑minded Collectors
Source Design You Trust Xavier Ortiz is a Sacramento‑based dark‑fantasy illustrator working primarily in watercolor (often mixed with pastel), known for haunting yet tender images of witches, spirits, skeletons and seasonal beings wrapped in misty, glowing atmospheres. Under the tagline “ANCIENT ꩜ FEELINGS,” he builds a personal cast of characters like VVARDEN and VVARLOCK—armored guardians,…
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Derrick Guild Summons Historical Portraits in Fragmented Trompe-l’œil Paintings
Source Colossal In 1666, the marriage of Emperor Leopold I and Infanta Margarita Teresa of Spain solidified a political alliance between the Austrian and Spanish sides of the Habsburg family. They were also both uncle and niece and first cousins, such was the intense insularity of royal marriages intended to gain or maintain power across…
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Planet Circus: Paco Pomet @ Richard Heller Gallery, Santa Monica
Source Juxtapoz Magazine – Juxtapoz Magazine – Home Richard Heller Gallery is pleased to present, Planet Circus, a new exhibition of paintings by Granada, Spain-based artist, Paco Pomet. The show brings together recent works that reaffirm the artist’s distinctive approach to contemporary figuration, combining technical precision with humor, irony, and subtle narrative disruption.
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Dennis Lehtonen’s Aerial Views of Remote Greenland Villages Illuminate an Evolving Land
Source Colossal The world’s largest island that isn’t its own continent, Greenland spans more than 836,000 square miles. As we’ve been reminded recently, the territory is part of the Realm of Denmark, although it has its own systems of local government. Greenland is home to only about 56,000 people, the vast majority of whom are…
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This Artist Reimagines Classic Rock And Gaming Icons Through His Own Lens, Turning Them Into Fresh Key Art
Source Design You Trust Ian Permana is an Indonesian illustrator and designer who builds colourful, character‑driven digital art with a strong anime, gaming and streetwear influence, and collaborates frequently with brands and bands on merch, covers and promo art. His feed mixes polished key illustrations, fan‑art tributes (for things like Rush’s “2112”) and commercial projects…
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Artist Tony Sandoval Treats Watercolour As Weather — Rain, Mist And Stains That Roll Across The Page
Source Design You Trust Tony Sandoval is a Mexican illustrator and comic‑book artist based in Europe, known for dreamy, slightly macabre watercolours where big‑headed kids, ghosts, monsters and fish riders drift through melancholic landscapes. Alongside his well‑known graphic novels, he keeps releasing self‑published fanzines under the “Rain of Doom” name and fills sketchbooks with quick…