Artist Interview – Alicia Levantini

Who are you and what do you do?

My name is Alicia Levantini, and I’m a self-taught pen & ink illustrator dwelling in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.  I do customized house and constructing drawings as effectively as produce stationery and prints of my get the job done.

 

Why do you do what you do?

I’ve usually been a lover of Philadelphia’s charming row homes and of walking all-around the city admiring them. About quarantine, I started off to draw Philadelphia stoops in my community, and as quickly as I posted them on-line, I had a extended waitlist for me to draw other people’s stoops and homes! What commenced out as a quarantine hobby has turned into my total-time career. I really feel so blessed to do what I do!

 

You use so quite a few vibrant colors, do you have any that you favor?

I absolutely really like when I’m able to

Interview with Yuliya Martynova: Watercolour World of Peace and Tranquillity

“Like a paper plane whose flight path is hardly ever straight, embrace uncertainty – just go with it. Consider see factors from a distinct angle.”

By Aimee Morris | 04 Nov 2022

Yuliya Martynova is a lady of numerous abilities. The Kazakhstan born artist has labored in Legislation, Prosperity Management and Engineering. She has several law levels, plus an MBA to boot. In 2015, Yuliya took the plunge and made the decision to make artwork her occupation. Now she will work amongst studios in Moscow and London and exhibits her watercolours at art fairs throughout the British isles. Her performs are on display screen in a lot of corporate places of work and they’ve also appeared on the huge display, in Health practitioner Bizarre and in an episode of US Drama Scandal.

Yuliya in her studio

 

You have experienced an attention-grabbing occupation journey as a result of Legislation, Finance and

Interview with Gregory Malphurs: Rethinking Portraiture

“My get the job done is a deconstruction recipe of emotions, colors, tales, and inspirations reflecting existence with its troubles and complications…”

By Increase Artwork | 07 Nov 2022

Gregory Malphurs has not too long ago joined Increase Art, bringing his conceptual portraits to the system. Gregory’s get the job done delivers the viewer a appear inside of his subject’s psyche fairly than a literal depiction of the physical. His do the job pushes the boundaries of conventional portrait painting by utilizing concepts of collage with multiple mediums to generate richly complicated within-out portraits.

Pastel Study 10 (Alex), 2022, delicate pastels on velour paper, 48.3 x 35.6cm

 

How would you explain your fashion and the get the job done you build?

My operate focuses on rethinking portraiture by restructuring the way a subject is represented. Building a painting or drawing that is an precise visual likeness to its issue does

Interview with Andrea Solaja, the Figurative Artist of Light and Dark

Andrea Solaja has recently joined Rise Artwork, bringing her varied portfolio of summary paintings and sculptures to the system. Andrea creates worlds and people, taking part in with the contrast of light-weight and dim, and tells tales making use of designs in her very own personal way to convey her feelings and as a supply of reduction to escape from the shadows of her Serbian childhood when the country was bombed.

Andrea Solaja taking Orestes, what have you carried out? off the wall when it truly is marketed (@andrea_solaja)

 

How would you describe your creative model?

At the age of 10, I’ve experienced a horrible daily life working experience: my region was bombed.

My sole supply of relief to escape from the horrors of those people times was imagining worlds and developing stories within the mild of the only candle I had. The shadows projected on the walls

Artist Interview – FlukeLady – Strathmore Artist Papers

Who are you and what do you do?

My artist title is FlukeLady and I am a 31-yr-previous imaginative from Philadelphia, PA. For the very last 3 years, I have been obsessed with portray whimsically spooky ghost art. Each 12 months I devote all 31 days of Oct building an solely new piece of artwork – every single single day! It truly is just one of my biggest but most appeared ahead to projects.

 

Why do you do what you do?

There is these types of a deep-seated require for me to place paint on paper and build anything from very little that I will not know what I would do if I could not make art. My spooky inclinations have usually been a part of me and my perform but I’ve definitely honed in on that component with my ‘Ghosts’ series these previous 3 years. I like the notion

Artist Interview – Jordan Clark

Who are you and what do you do?
My name is Jordan Clark and I’m a multimedia artist and illustrator! I began sharing my artwork on-line in excess of 5 many years in the past and grew an viewers by earning art tutorials on Youtube. I later opened a business promoting my own illustrated stickers and stationery on-line. I’ve due to the fact stepped back again from jogging my company and I am now operating on developing new techniques as an artist and having my do the job in a distinct course.

How and when did you get into art?
I sense like art has usually been a portion of my existence. I grew up obsessed with arts and crafts from a very younger age, many thanks to my mom who frequently inspired my creativeness. As a teen I began a weblog to share my function and link with a