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Study of Light by Radojavor 

These mysterious oil-on-wood paintings are the work of Audrey Kawasaki who creates images seductive and vulnerable girls who captivate with viewer with their direct stare, bedroom eyes, graceful curves and haunting doll faces. Kawasaki’s works have been called both innocent and erotic. The influence of Art Nouveau is apparent throughout her works as it is clear she has drawn upon the flowing curves and influence of nature in the style.

Also worth noting is the way the artist uses the grain of the wood by rotating it to add movement and direction to her pieces, for example the girl in the wood or the final image of the girl sat amongst the flowers. Furthermore the hazy/dreamy quality of most of the images as if the viewer is separate from the paintings by a cloud of fog adds a further dimension to the images making them even more intriguing.

Here is some work by the Dutch artist Albert Koetsier who creates artwork by taking x-ray photographs of objects, its not a new idea but I thought some of the images are quite nice as although they hold similar properties to photos manipulated in photoshop by adjusting the saturation, levels, curves or contrast for example, they are unique as they show more depth whilst retaing a smooth softness about them.

I especially like how the colours have turned out in the flower images, as the subtle tones have a feel of faded pressed flowers in an old book.

I’ve been meaning to post this work for sometime but I kept forgetting about it.

I like these images as there is so much interest in them. They remind me of more vibrant and colourful Lowry pieces and I enjoy the lack of perspective as we are placed above the scene so that we can see it all, but we can still look through it and appreciate the perspective of many of the streets.

I came across Steadman’s work whilst on my A-Level art and design course. He’s an illustrator and has created work for Private Eye, the Daily Telegraph, the New York Times and Rolling Stone in his time. The works are created in ink using fountain pens and brushes and I think the resulting images are quite interesting. They have a sense of texture and spontaneity brought about through the splashes of ink and irregular letter forms. The lettering is one element that I particularly like about Steadman’s work as it seamlessly blends with and supports the images as they are in the same style, and are quite unsympathetic and make no real attempts to be clear or legible, but instead are more of a visual mark or expression of a particular words meaning, for example “vain” in the top image, which is large and bold, and “charismatic,” which is multicoloured.