From Structure to Atmosphere: How I Build My Digital Art Prints
Australian digital artist Phillip J Gordon on his three-current process: urban geometry, floral watercolour, and abstract oils, and how Photoshop and Lightroom bring them together into large-format prints.
Cats, Geometry and a Little Imagination
Artist Marina Imar on her Avant-Garde Cats series, the digital project "A Cat's Time" (猫の時間), and using geometry to preserve the character behind every simple form.
Artist Spotlight: Laura Nagel
Argentine illustrator Laura Nagel on "Forgotten Fairy Tales": whimsical digital illustrations of lost folklore, liminal spaces, and the creatures that live where nature and magic meet.
Artist Spotlight: Raven Ramirez Cantu
Houston artist Raven Ramirez Cantu on "Bipolar Women," her ongoing series of acrylic, pastel, and ink drawings that turns raw emotion into something haunting, eerie, and healing.
The World Tried to Give Me Grey. I Answered With Color.
Ukrainian oil painter Mari Bloom on fleeing war with twenty dollars and a suitcase full of paints, the Between the Wars series, and why beauty is not decoration but an argument.
Artist Spotlight: Naomi Fisher
Canadian/American artist Naomi Fisher on a decade of environmental body art, building costumes from Spanish moss and chlorophyll, and why what we discard is still part of us.
Artist Spotlight: Evgenia Smirnova
Saint Petersburg-born artist Evgenia Smirnova on her ongoing watercolor series: imaginary nocturnal landscapes inhabited by whales, bulls, and black cats, painted from feeling rather than plan.
Collecting Decay: Why My Monthly Postcards Travel Without an Envelope
German artist Claudia Schmidt on Candy Decay: surreal paintings where skulls sit next to strawberries, and monthly postcards that travel without envelopes because they were never meant to arrive untouched.
Artist Spotlight: Sada Stavrum
Self-taught artist Sada Stavrum on intuitive painting, daily studio practice, and the Eastern traditions that brought him back to making art in the south of France.
Experimental Techniques: The Art of Not Knowing
Australian digital watercolour artist Phillip J Gordon on using mistakes as method, disrupting the grammar of a medium, and following the work past the point where it feels safe.
Ninja Girl Is Out: Anthony Sturmas on Building a Street-Level Hero from Scratch
After 26 years boarding other people's stories, storyboard artist Anthony Sturmas launched Ninja Girl: a hand-drawn, street-level hero built for young girls, across Roblox, Webtoon, and beyond.
Artist Spotlight: Stephen Willard
Graphic designer Stephen Willard lives in two creative worlds: strict design by day, and abstract digital art that maps the neurological chaos of epilepsy. On order, memory, and release.
Love in Full Effect
Painter Ilya Black on "Love in Full Effect," an acrylic work about presence, love, and the quiet fear that everything beautiful can vanish in an instant.
Painting Starts Where Words Stop
Abstract oil painter Melissa Friendlich on flow, burnout, motherhood, and finding her way back to the canvas. Why abstraction became the language she'd been missing.
Artist Spotlight: Samah Kthar
Queens-born, Detroit-based occupational therapist and abstract artist Samah Kthar found painting after grief, a museum visit, and a moment of seeing art that required only honesty. Her 10-year journey in her own words.
Bold Expressions: When Colour Becomes Courage
Australian digital watercolour artist Phillip J Gordon on his Bold Expressions series — where asymmetry, charged colour, and fluid unpredictability become a form of emotional honesty.
With Love From Ukraine: The Visionary Art and Resilience of ShivaOm
Since 2012 Andrii Averin, known as ShivaOm, has created UV-reactive installations and sacred geometry art for festivals worldwide. A conversation about Ayahuasca, optical illusions, and making art while Ukraine is at war.
Art Saved My Life. To Return the Favor, I Built NewBohemia.art
Evan Greenberg spent six months building NewBohemia.art…a free, verification-first platform for human-made art only. Nearly 1,000 verified members and counting. This is why he built it.
I Never Planned to Become an Artist: The Work of J.E.
A year ago J.E. made his first drawing during a difficult period. Twenty-five pieces later, the former elite athlete based in Spain has become a visual artist working in acrylic markers on cardboard.
The Artmobile: When Museums Brought The Art To You
Before the internet, museums did something radical: they loaded real Rembrandts and Picassos onto tractor-trailers and drove them to rural America. The story of the Artmobile.