Art expressing emotion

Figurative artist Leah Kelly works with oils, acrylics and charcoal to merge portraiture and surrealism. An unusual combination of faces and bodies in a representational art style is used to express emotions and experiences common within the female experiences. Women’s suffering, power, and emotions are expressed- translated through original ideas and compositions, or retellings of iconic imagery.

Portraits of paint

American Artist Douglas Smith studied Sculpture, Painting and Printmaking, but his main love was for Illustrations and telling a story. Below and above are examples of his Drawings, Illustrations made with the use of the Scratchboard medium. Scratchboard is defined by Wikipedia as "Sharp knives and tools that are used for etching into a thin layer of white China clay that is coated with black India ink". For the coloured ones, more layers of clay in different colours are laid, so that the…

I try to show the feeling of utter loneliness that persists even when constantly surrounded by people because I was muted by an invisible difference.This blog has been translated into Arabic. Thank you Halim Kheleli.By Alice FarionIt began with me drawing trees every time I felt unwell. Trees fascinated me. They are calm and constant, and they have an aura of serenity I have always been searching for. I was sketching trees in my notebooks, covering my bedroom walls with a forest of black and…