Category Archives: paintings
These Feelings
Oil paint on wood
6in x 10in
ABOUT ARTIST HAYDEE REVELES “IBELIEVE”:
Haydee Reveles is one of the most talented self-taught artists born and raised in Los Angeles. Breaking through the underground art world her incredible paintings are making their way to the top. She has a big imagination, and a passion for art.
iBelieve realized that she wanted to create art the moment she first touch a brush and saw what she could do. Then it started becoming a passion for her. She knew she wasn’t great, but made it a challenge to teach herself. And when she did she knew it was in her to be creative. Her first real introduction to art was in high school. A young iBelieve took an art class, and although she only got to paint one canvas, she knew then her mentality and imagination was to paint. When she was old enough, she figured out how to express herself thru a painting, without having to explain it to no one.
She primarily works with oil paint on wood. When you look into her paintings you can feel it in your soul. A true artist from the heart. She is self-taught and still learning many ways to create new art. With that said, this young lady goes by the nickname of: ” iBelieve “. This name comes from her thinking everything is possible if you believe in yourself. When others believe in you it only adds motivation that you could do anything you want, if you put your mind and effort into it.
iBelieve has also displayed her work at many Art Galleries and won first place for Visual Artist of the Year at the Los Angeles RAWARDS 2012 show, sponsored by Indie Arts Award Los Angeles. Currently her plans are to keep creating art and be part of more exhibitions so her work could be recognized by many.
“iBelieved in myself when no one else did and it has taken me in a great path. Never Doubt yourself!” – iBelieve.
Midnight Love
Oil paint on wood
24in x 24in
Black Pearl
“Playboy No.0”
Art by Poland based painter and camera operator Mateusz Rybka
“Whisky Boy”
“XXX Loco”
“Stamp 1”
“When I Was 15”
“Bosco”
“Acrylic Soup”
“Hustler No. 0”
“Vogue No.0”
“Calm Down”
” Holy Eight”
‘birth of venus’
oil on canvas
100cm x 100cm
ABOUT JAMES RAWSON:
James Rawson is a postmodern pop artist, born 1989, in Norfolk England. Predominantly working in the medium of collage and painting, James found no inspiration in the beautiful Norfolk landscape he grew up in. Instead realizing the landscape of pop culture fed to him via the media had more relevance. James completed a BA Honors in Fine Art at Loughborough University in 2011. Exhibitions include ‘Diversity in Style’, ‘British art for the future’ at the Olyvia Fine Art gallery in London and is currently represented by the MAC Fine Gallery in Miami. After moving to London for a short period, he returned to his hometown in Norfolk where he now lives and works.
‘kate bait’
oil and spray paint on canvas
105cm x 105cm
‘splash attack’
oil on canvas
100cm x 100cm
James’ work blurs the boundaries between collage and painting, using preparatory paper collages as reference for his larger paintings. He aims to reflect the multilayered visual experience we all live in. Appropriating the very images that have become implicit in our society, James’ work disturbs our sense of reality and confuses our pre-conceived perception of popular culture.
‘bitches love cake’
oil on canvas
50cm x 50cm
‘shark bait’
mixed media on canvas
119cm x 163cm
‘one in the chamber’
oil and spray paint on canvas
75cm x 75cm
James’ work addresses one of the most important issues of the last 50 years; over- consumption, greed, inequality and life as a spectacle. James’ work screams at you, there is no room for prevarication. It deals with the ubiquity of advertising, sex selling everything, fast food and TV as the drug of a nation. So perhaps you don’t like what you see, the bawdy reality, the cheap thrill, the constant accumulation of sweet things, processed things, plastic things. Unnatural things: but it doesn’t take away from the fact it’s the truth. So on we go, round and round on our big fat merry-go-round while James puts up the mirror to our pathetic world of consumption.
‘all’s fair in love and war’
oil on canvas
102cm x 141cm
‘hobo with a shotgun’
oil and acrylic on canvas
119cm x 163cm
http://www.jamesrawson.co.uk/James_Rawson_Fine_Art/home.html
Bonafide Icon is a NYC- based contemporary graphic designer and illustrator, whose works are influenced by both popular advertising and sports/sneaker culture combined with references from 90′s nostalgia.
