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Jason Anderson

British artist Jason Anderson creates colorful abstract paintings composed of pixelated swatches of pastel-toned oil paint. Up-close, the artist’s paintings look like blocky layers of shapes and color; but, from afar, his scenes—featuring cityscapes, roads, trains, and marinas—are revealed.

Anderson began his career as a stained glass apprentice, where he worked on restoring the windows of cathedrals. He soon progressed onto designing the glass murals himself, where he learned how to break down subject matter into “jigsaws” of colored sections. This approach still shines through in his paintings today—complex scenes are brought to life with simple shapes and careful consideration to hue and tone.

These really speak to me.

Why do these cubes make me feel feelings

Departing

pixel art can be so surreal because the really good stuff can sometimes just look like a really low res photo

El putoQUEEEEEEÉ?

And notice that he made it out of white oak.  Even with power tools, that’s doing it the hard way.

The artists is Oleksandr Hrytsai. He makes more of this beautiful stuff. Sadly, facebook only.

fun fact: painters back then painted yellow fruits (most often lemons/other citrus fruits) to show off their skills. yellow is one of the most difficult colors to shade for with paint, so it showed off their skill in mixing colors. oftentimes, when theres a PEELED yellow fruit, the peel is way longer than it should be, too, just because the painters wanted to flex on people.

for example:

if you put the peel back on the lemon in your mind, you’ll find its way too long. this is genuinely just bc this painter in 1643 wanted to flex his painting skills

idk why im saying this its just a neat fact

rainbowfish #9

曜変天目茶碗、藤田美術館、大阪

yōhen tenmoku chawan from the Fujita Museum (Osaka) collection

Southern Song, 12th-13th century; National Treasure of Japan

Source

While working on Across the Spiderverse, I painted this concept art of what Manhattan might look like in Gwen's watercolor style!

420 Yennefer

..because she definitely needed to relax after dealing with the worlds bullsh*t and I respect her (And i really wanted to draw her)

Portrait of Madame Yennefer, repainted

original

Philip Kaiten JR

Hobie 🎸

While working on Across the Spiderverse, I painted this concept art of what Manhattan might look like in Gwen's watercolor style!

there’s this twitter thread going around recently where people share different forms of visual art pieces that emotionally hit them; here are some of the ones that people shared

The Swan Queen

Fantaisies décoratives - Jules Habert-Dys - c.1886-1887 - via Gallica