Unknown #072 by Tom Radenz

Artist Notes

Carillon

This photograph is of a Bell Tower called ‘Carillon’, standing in Tiergarten, Berlin. It is comprimised of 68 bells.

Q&A - Pragya Kothari

Tell us a bit about yourself

My name is Pragya and I’m an illustrator and licensing artist.

Originally from north India, I now call United States my home. I live here with my husband and one very naughty but adorable bunny.

Early 2009 I found my ‘voice’ as an illustrator and soon realized I could make a living doing what I love. In addition to selling my work online and in various stores around the country I also license. It’s very fulfilling personally.

How do you go about creating your pieces? 

Fascinated with the world around me, I use my favorite animate and inanimate ‘things’ as a means to tell a story. I’m a lover of bright saturated colors and use them to add humor, beauty and playfulness to the ordinary.

Mostly I have a clear idea of what I want before I begin. During the process of drawing new ideas sometimes come out too. I primarily use Adobe Illustrator to draw.

What single element, person, object or real life situation, do you think has influenced you the most throughout your artist career?

Life as a collection and interaction of real and imaginary things is a cornucopia of inspiration.
 
What is your best piece of art to date?

My favorites are constantly changing. Currently I’m in love with all my floral pieces. No matter what is happening outside, inside the four walls, it is always spring.

5.Any current projects/shows/releases you want to advertise?

I recently completed a project that is really close to my heart. It is a fusion of two of my favorite things. Wild animals and Rajasthani turbans. Its called Royal Safari and will be available for purchase soon on pragyak.etsy.com.

Pragya’s print is available here.

Lorenzo Duran 

Spanish artist lorenzo duran uses leaves as the canvas for his cutaway art. after washing and drying the leaf,
he carefully cuts away segments in a technique akin to those of traditional spanish picado, chinese jianzhi, 
german scherenschnitte, or swiss papercutting. 


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New Print - Unknown #061 - Tiago Santos

Thames Barrier

Thames Barrier is a combination between the brightness of human beings and the beauty of a moody sky during the very end of a cold winter in London.
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Produced: Unknownprints.com 
Artist: Tiago Santos
Title: Thames Barrier, Unknown #061
Orientation: Landscape
Category: Photography
Type: Fine Art Print, Unframed
Size: A5 to A1
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Available Here 

Q&A - Bernie Jones

Tell us a bit about yourself

Hey, my name’s Bernie. I come form a small trashy town in Pennsylvania called Mars, where inspiration is perhaps the most abundant resource in all the world (JOKE!). I got into Photography a little over 6 years ago, when I went to Senegal, Africa. We had brought a little Point and Shoot along for the trip, and the setting provided many excellent opportunities to capture moments that I found absolutely stunning. My interest just snowballed from there.

How do you go about creating your pieces? 

I usually go about taking a photo by asking myself how I see the shot. I don’t just want to capture a moment, I want to capture how I see that moment. Get a better idea of how my mind works, become Bernie, if you will. Following the shot, I usually add a washed effect to my image, adding some cool colors to the shadows and warmer to the highlights. Sometimes I mix it up though.

 What single element, person, object or real life situation, do you think has influenced you the most throughout your artist career?

I’ve always had trouble communicating with others, not physically, but emotionally. I always feel like I have some sort of lock on my emotional expression. So I try to express myself through my work. I feel like when someone sees my image, they see me. And it will give them an idea as to who I really am as a person.
 
What is your best piece of art to date?

I’ve never been fond of picking a “best work”, as I’m always striving to improve upon my work. The moment I take something I really like, I end up taking something else that totally tops the last. I think that the moment you pick a favorite piece of yours is the moment that you don’t create anything at all.

Any current projects/shows/releases you want to advertise?

Not really. if you ever want to check out my other stuff, you can go over to my flickr photostream at: http://www.flickr.com/photos/gregorybernardjones/. I’ve got some stuff that ranges back to when I just started my hobby. 

Q&A - Ivan Zovko

Tell us a bit about yourself

I am Ivan Zovko, currently located in UK, originally coming from a beautiful Mediterranean country of Croatia. Photography was my passion from early days, while really getting into it when I got my first DSLR 3 years ago. Capturing moment with the aim to see, at some point in the future, how the world that surrounded me looked like was an initial motivation for photography. But discovering possibilities of creating an artwork with the camera led me to completely different places.

 How do you go about creating your pieces? 

The photos I take which should represent an artwork, not mere a photographic record, are usually run through Adobe Photoshop software, just to give a little extra touch. In the same way a film roll has been put through different combinations of various amounts of chemicals to add a personalized touch to a photograph, I am trying to achieve that by different combinations of various amounts of software manipulation. I see no difference in the final product between click on the mouse and mixing chemicals.

 What single element, person, object or real life situation, do you think has influenced you the most throughout your artist career?

Trying to capture individual’s natural, unfiltered, human expression is my motivation for photography. On the other hand, framing landscapes’ perfect balance provides me with pleasure in photography.
 
What is your best piece of art to date?

Currently I am trying to create a set of images capturing a simple (and as similar as possible) frame of footpaths I made in different countries I’ve visited. The project that should be constantly updated is still in early phase of development, but as soon as there is enough images for an interesting display, it will be published.

Q&A - Christopher Edwards

Tell us a bit about yourself

Hello, Christopher Edwards here though, everyone calls me Eddie. From Gloucester mostly however I currently live in Chorlton, Manchester. Studied Graphic Design at Staffordshire University, then after I did my post student slave labour time in London, moved to Manchester to remind myself what an open field looks like and to work freelance.

 How do you go about creating your pieces? 

This depends greatly on the piece. Pen and paper always are always a good start, some stuff I work on from photography, however everything always get finalised in Adobe Creative Suite. I have an image of what I want most of my illustrations to look like before I start. However with typographic and other design work, I just work through the research and idea development until something fits.

What single element, person, object or real life situation, do you think has influenced you the most throughout your artist career?

When I first read through a copy of “Pen & Mouse”. That was when I realised that there was this other side of art and design that I wanted to be a part of. Before that, I liked art, however never really regarded it as a real profession. Through digital illustration I learnt about the profession of graphic design and its possabilities.
 
What is your best piece of art to date?

Art work wise, a portrait illustration I did of my friend Laura. It is a very soft illustration and doesn’t look like anything else I’ve been drawing lately. Design wise, I’m really happy with the posters I produced for this years “Chorlton Big Green Festival”. I love the composition and colours of this years festivals, had a more approachable feel against the previous years promotional material.

Any current projects/shows/releases you want to advertise?

Sure, I’d like to mention my portfolio website at first where you can see this and other pieces I’ve been working on over the last two years. Contact details are also on there if there is anyone out there who is interested in collaborating or hireling me as a designer.

Secondly I’d like to promote two fantastic sites from some very talented friends of mine. Ntrprnrs Ldn (www.ntrprnrs.com) which is a fantastic design collective bassed in the UK & Dan Birkbeck of infinite potential (www.danbirkbeck.co.uk) who is one the best graffiti artist and illustrator I know and is working freelance from Manchester.

New Prints - Unknown #048/#049 - Kirsty Paterson

Unknown #048 - Tea

Tea - Experimenting with the digital the digital and the handmade. I definitely believe this quote, everything always seems better after a good cup of tea!

Unknown #049 - CMYK

CMYK - I wanted to try some experiments with Digital type and paint so decided to use the CMYK process to play with.

Both Available Here

Q&A - Kirsty Paterson

Tell us a bit about yourself

 Hi i’m Kirsty. I’m a 25 year old Graphic Designer from Hampshire. After spending most of my school and college life only interested in the creative subjects I naturally followed the path into design and haven’t looked back. In design I specialise mainly in packaging and branding and I’m currently working as the in-house designer for a chocolate company in West Sussex.

 How do you go about creating your pieces? 

Mainly Adobe Creative suite is my domain, but i’m increasingly interested in mixing the digital with the handmade. Especially watercolours and hand lettering. Every piece of work I do starts of in some form of a sketch (albeit in a sketchbook or the back of an old receipt) and then I just see where it takes me. 

What single element, person, object or real life situation, do you think has influenced you the most throughout your artist career?

I don’t think there has really been one stand point in my career that has influenced where i’ve headed, but i think most of my influence probably came from my great tutors at uni.
 
What is your best piece of art to date?

I don’t really have a ‘best piece’ so to speak, but as a packaging designer there is nothing better than seeing something you’ve worked so hard on produced and displayed on a shop shelf, ready to be bought.

Any current projects/shows/releases you want to advertise?

Not really, but I do have a portfolio website (www.kirstypatersondesign.com) which showcases most of what i’ve done over the years.

Kirsty’s prints are available here.

New Print - Unknown #045 - Leanne Pickering

‘A Typographic Experience’

For this design I just wanted to try and make the word look as beautiful as possible in the hope that other’s will see typography in the same way that I do. Art!

Available Here

New Print - Unknown #044 - James Smith

‘Anything you really want, you can attain, if you really go after it.’ - Wayne Dyer

Typography work using the quote from the author. The background shows the Stars and Milky Way.

Available Here