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]]>But keeping a journal doesn’t necessarily mean putting pen to paper. For Pearada Unahalekhaka (Cheepsatayakorn), diary keeping means something else altogether. An avid traveler (at least when traveling is permitted), Unahalekhaka describes herself as “visual storyteller”—documenting the world around her with the aid of watercolors rather than words.
Born in Bangkok, Unahalekhaka has lived in New York City and Hong Kong, but her travels have taken her anywhere from San Francisco to Thailand. Her small watercolor paintings (Unahalekhaka carries a sketchbook with her at all times) offer snippets from those travels, which she then shares on Instagram. “Traveling is my way of life,” says Unahalekhaka. “It’s how I find inspiration, and my favorite way to capture the moment is to sketch.”
With an affinity to art and aesthetics in general, Unahalekhaka studied architecture as an undergraduate, and is also a graduate of Columbia University with Masters in Strategic Communications. “I discovered my true passions in strategy and illustration while living in New York City,” she notes. “I combine eight years of work experience in the branding and advertising industries with my study in architecture and my passion in illustration to implement design strategy and create designs that speak to the audience.”
Her favorite places to visit when she isn’t working? Big cities. “I love positive energy and inspirations I get from fast-paced cities,” says the illustrator. “I can’t really stay still.” Her visual stories might just inspire you to start a diary (visual or otherwise) yourself.
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]]>Most recently, we’ve come across Dina Brodsky’s miniature paintings. As it turns out, painting small comes naturally to Brodsky. “When I paint small I’m like a fish in water,” she shared with Whitehot Magazine. “I am much less comfortable painting on a larger scale, and very few of my large works hold up as well as the miniatures.”
Her miniatures include representations of natural landscapes, animals, and architecture. There’s also a series dedicated to seemingly empty rooms, finely painted—a sort of peephole, presenting snapshots of everyday life.
According to Brodsky, her painting technique relies on a combination of classical oil painting techniques (15th century Northern Renaissance methods and 17th-century Venetian techniques) alongside contemporary materials such as mylar and plexiglass.
“When I was studying, the things I had trouble with had more to do with drawing, proportion, perspective, anatomy, architecture,” she notes. “I feel like I am still catching up and trying to master a lot of those things. But color has always come organically.”
Born in Minsk, Belarus, Brodsky moved to the US in 1991 where she studied at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, before earning her MFA at the New York Academy of Art. These days, she also runs online seminars, teaching others how to build an engaged community online, so as to enhance their online presence.
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]]>Kringen is a well-known name in the art world thanks to his powerful portraits that blur the line between reality and abstraction. He paints portraits and figures emerging from shattered backgrounds or seeming like they were broken down into pieces that were then reassembled.
Kringen was introduced to art from early age by his mother, an artist and graphic designer, prompting him to get interested in drawing and painting. This allowed him to get familiar with different techniques, both old-school and modern, and use his keen eye for details, especially when it comes to observing people, to develop the style that has now become his calling card.
According to the statement on his website, the process of painting for him involves “balancing between reality and abstraction,” and he applies this routine “down to each single feature of the face or hand.”
“I dissect the figure using line work, dividing between tone and texture, and then reconnect the pieces along invisible planes throughout the painting,” Kringen explains.
Check out more of his work below or follow him on Instagram!
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]]>Here to lend us a helping hand is artist Okuda San Miguel. Known for his colorful murals and outlandish sculptures, San Miguel ascribes to the notion that more is more—especially when it comes to his color palettes. In fact, when it comes to his work (which is often described as Pop Surrealism), color takes front and center stage.
With a stated goal of “coloring the world”, the Spanish painter and sculptor employs all the colors of the rainbow when he paints his geometric patterns. Inspired and very much shaped by street culture, in particularly graffiti, his work aims at transforming the world we live in: turning grey concrete into a work of art.
“I aim at converting the monochromatic concrete structures and buildings into vibrant places that are filled with color and positivity,” writes San Miguel on his website. “Helping and hoping to change the lives of people. I want people to stop looking at the pavement and start looking up and around.”
Another goal of his is to make art more accessible to the common man. “Art must be present in public spaces constantly and my mission is to transform these spaces in a way that passing through them is an enjoyable experience,” he notes.
Indeed, his art can be enjoyed around the world in the streets of countries like India, Japan, Chile, Brazil, Mexico, Morocco, and Spain. Take a look at some recent noteworthy projects of his on Instagram.
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]]>According to Vidal Agulló, she herself has always gravitated towards art. Having learned to draw at an early age, Vidal Agulló had studied at Escola Massana in Barcelona and by the age of 16 had started working as an apprentice in Taller de Escenografia Castells Planas in St. Agnès de Malanyanes.
“In the beginning, I did nothing but drawings,” she shared with Juxtapoz. “Later on, I tried to add color to them, but only plain colors. The effect was rather that of an illustration. It was only two years ago that I tried to apply chiaroscuro effects to my sketches.”
These days, Vidal Agulló isn’t afraid of experimenting both with color and size, with some of her paintings sprawling across walls. Her playful inclination also comes through her subject matter, imagining a world that is similar to ours but then again, very different.
“I like to play with gravity since it is such a sacred law,” she admits. “And playing with it can have astonishing results. I set elements in different orientations in order to talk about the different points of view we all have in our environments.” Enter her disorienting spaces—but with caution!
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]]>“Climate change is arguably the largest crisis we face as a global society,” she remarked in an interview with Visual Atelier 8. “I feel a responsibility as an artist to address this in my work, especially since I’ve had the rare opportunity to travel to remote places at the forefront of the crisis.”
Indeed, her work often requires travel. In order to collect her source material, Forman has flown with NASA on several Operation IceBridge missions over Antarctica, Greenland, and Arctic Canada.
According to Forman, though many of us are intellectually aware that climate change is our greatest global challenge, the problem often feels abstract, and the imperiled landscapes remote. Through her drawings, she hopes places like Antarctica become more present to the viewer while emulating the overpowering experience of being beside a glacier.
“I hope viewers feel as if they’ve been transported to the landscape they’re looking at,” says Forman. “If they can experience the landscape in the way I did, it is my hope they’ll fall in love with it the way I have. And when you love something, you want to protect it.”
Hopefully, her drawings can indeed, facilitate a deeper understanding of the climate crisis. Scroll down to see some highlights from her feed.
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]]>A cross between painting, drawing, print media, collage, and performance, Carter uses alternative media and surfaces to emphasize a visceral mark. Her work, more often than not, seems un-contained—the ink spilled across a translucent drafting film, with the fluid then juxtaposed with collage elements.
Her paintings, made with layers of puddled pigment and collaged imagery mimic explosive, liquid bodies. The paint she uses tends to puddle and bead on its surface, while the translucent nature of the film allows her to paint on both sides. In one series, she paints using cranberry juice, which refers to her family background (having come from a family of cranberry farmers in New England). Exploiting the staining effect of the juice, she stains antique linens and pillowcases.
“Abstract and minimal work never seemed to be an option for me,” she reflected once in an interview with the Exeter Bulletin. “I needed more to hold onto… I think it’s necessary to investigate the stories we grew up with, and other stories that have been told throughout history, and how those have shaped us. That’s why imagery from mythology, folklore and fairy tale have had such a presence in my work.”
While exploring themes like gender, fairytale, and masquerade, Carter hopes to expose not only one’s guts but one’s internal state in a way that can seem both pleasurable and painful. Her work, therefore, pushes the possibilities of painting, creating new textures with ink. Scroll down to see some recent highlights.
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]]>Robinson is a Colorado-based artist who paints true masterpieces on tiny mint tins. He actually paints on small wooden panels that he attaches to the container lids. Once prepared, he travels to an inspirational site and uses the tin as the palette as he paints on the wooden panel.
“I use a new container every time, and when I am finished, the painting stays with the container it was painted in, complete with the palette of paint that was used to create it,” Robinson tells My Modern Met. Each container become a little art artifact, as he says.
Check out his art below and find more on Instagram.
I sat in my car to paint this one. The frosty air surrounding the Flatirons had an ethereal depth to it which was an absolute treat to paint. #pleinair #pleinairpainter #pleinairpainting #altoidstinpainting #chautauquapark #bouldercolorado
#pleinair #pleinairartist #pleinairpainter #pleinairpainting #altoids #altoidstinpainting #oilpainting #miniaturepainting #miniatureart #miniatureartist #minipainting #miniart #miniartist #tinypainting #tinyart #tinyartist #smallpainting #smallart #smallartist #micropainting #microart #microartist #bouldercolorado #coloradoart #coloradoartist
Oh yeah, there used to be a tree there on the left, but it got chopped down since the last time I came to this spot. I decided to pay homage to our lost tree friend and put it in the painting, also because I like the balance it adds to the composition. #pleinair #pleinairartist #pleinairpainter #pleinairpainting #altoids #altoidstinpainting #oilpainting #miniaturepainting #miniatureart #miniatureartist #minipainting #miniart #miniartist #tinypainting #tinyart #tinyartist #smallpainting #smallart #smallartist #micropainting #microart #microartist #coloradoart #coloradoartist #boulderopenspace #bouldergreenbelt #bouldercolorado
This painting, along with nine others are in a plein air exhibition with @sugarlift in NYC, and the opening is tonight at 508 W 28th St., New York, NY. And if you aren’t able to make it to the opening, don’t worry! All of these paintings, as well many others from a great lineup of artists, are available online at art.sugarlift.com. . . . #cottonwood #cottonwoodtree #autumncottonwood #coloradoart #coloradoartist #pleinair #pleinairartist #pleinairpainter #pleinairpainting #altoids #altoidstinpainting #oilpainting #miniaturepainting #miniatureart #miniatureartist #minipainting #miniart #miniartist #tinypainting #tinyart #tinyartist #smallpainting #smallart #smallartist #micropainting #microart #microartist
First time ever in ‘Bama over the weekend for my cousin Sarah’s wedding. This banana plant was right across the street from my family’s AirBNB. Its colors were looking so juicy in the morning sun that I just had to paint it. It reminded me of being in Mexico or Florida, and made me want to paint more banana plants in the future. P.S. – I just found out that even though the banana plant is commonly called a ‘banana tree’, it is not classified as a tree since its stem is not made of woody tissue. . . . #alabamagetaway #bananatree #bananaplant #tropicalpainting #tropical #pleinair #pleinairartist #pleinairpainter #pleinairpainting #altoids #altoidstinpainting #oilpainting #miniaturepainting #miniatureart #miniatureartist #minipainting #miniart #miniartist #tinypainting #tinyart #tinyartist #smallpainting #smallart #smallartist #micropainting #microart #microartist
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Capturing a little more of this wildfire smoke in oil paint – here it’s kind of subtle. 
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]]>Dave from Arrowhead Vintage & Goods specializes in upcycling thrift paintings and most of his work is inspired by the Star Wars franchise.
“I started making these designs because I owned a vintage store and had some really beautiful landscapes but I couldn’t sell for $5,” Dave told Digg. The artist explained how he was tempted to throw away all these paintings he owned for years, but eventually decided to give them another chance. That’s when he transformed a painting for the first time by adding an ATST and Ewoks fishing on the lake. And the result was amazing!
Finding old painting is not a problem these days, Dave claims, but breathing new life into them is a bit more tricky. Sometimes he needs several weeks just to study the painting and its style, in order to perfectly blend his characters into the scene.
Take a look at Dave’s unique paintings in the photos below.
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A street view of the Cathedral Basilica, one of the few Catholic Churches in the city. Watercolour 
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#cathedral“I have always loved painting; I’m fascinated by art, the feelings it provokes in people, and the feelings it gives me while creating it. I have experimented with all sorts of mediums, from sculpture to crochet. But painting really gives me a window to show people how I see the world,” the artist wrote for Bored Panda.
Painting was only a hobby for Vitaliya, until just a few months ago. But lockdown gave her plenty of time and space to experiment and improve her skills and that’s when she finally decided to turn her hobby into a career and become a full-time painter.
The young artist says she finds inspiration in everything that surrounds her from her cats and friends to the beautiful scenery of her lovely Mediterranean town.
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