Liam Brazier

Liam Brazier is a thirty year old UK animator and illustrator who has been taking superheroes and using angular shapes to recreate them. Instead of using the vector tools in Adobe Illustrator, he uses the polygonal tool in Photoshop then fills them in with color. His artwork displayed at Apple, Samsung, the Museum of London, and several other sites.

Liam Brazier 

Makoto Tojiki

Makoto Tojiki is a Japanese artist and designer who experiments with light as his medium. He takes the images he manipulates from light and shadow and from jewelry that reflects light such as diamonds. Once of his clients is Hermes. For his "No Shadow" exhibit, he uses small LED lights hanging from threads.

Makoto Tojiki

Guy Laramee

Guy Laramee is a thirty year old Canadian sculptor, stage writer, director, painter, writer, and composer. He recycles several old, encyclopedias placed together and carves the surfaces with drills to create landscapes. His works represents the declining of human culture. He chooses old books based on the appearance of the book cover color. He also believes that knowledge is "gained by erosion, not accumulation."  

"Mountains of disused knowledge return to what they really are: mountains. They erode a bit more and they become hills. Then they flatten and become fields where apparently nothing is happening. Piles of obsolete encyclopedias return to that which does not need to say anything, that which simply IS. Fogs and clouds erase everything we know, everything we think we are."

Guy Laramee

Beatrix Potter

Beatrix Potter is an English author and illustrator. Like the paintings and sketches of the Peter Rabbit above, her artwork focused mainly on mice, rabbits, kittens, and other small animals. To make the subjects unique, she placed them in settings British clothing (Peter's blue jacket) and country landscape. Potter's artwork stands out through her curvilinear use of line and soft color scheme. I enjoy the whimsical effect the two elements create.

Beatrix Potter

More from Robson!

Aurora Robson

26'x26'x30", plastic debris (PET), rivets, tinted polycrylic, mica powder

Aurora Robson, a Canadian artist, is known for her beautiful pieces of environmentally friendly artwork created with everything from extra packaging material to plastic waste. Aurora grew up in Maui, Hawaii which gave her a great appreciation for nature. She currently lives in New York and has taught photography, welding, and sculpture at Colombia. The above piece, Oleum, uses the element of color and shape. The color selection is monochromatic and the farther away from the center the shapes reach, the more the color fades. The shapes are created from the recycled plastic available, making each part unique. I enjoy how Robson used a happy color scheme to give the plastic a new life. 

Aurora Robson

Edgar Degas



Little Dancer of Fourteen Years, 1881, 38 inches, wax then bronze, National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C.



The Dance Class (La Classe de Danse),1873–1876, oil on canvas



Edgar Degas is A French painter, sculptor, and draftsman and is regarded as one of the founders of Impressionism (ordinary subject matter, small brush strokes, movement). His subject specialty is dance. More than half of his artwork is of dancers, specifically ballerinas. His Little Dancer of Fourteen Years is his most well known pieces. It was originally cast in wax and then into bronze. The sculpture has real hair and the only part not covered in wax was a hair ribbon given to him by Marie van Goethem and the tutu. Since the bronze gave the stature an unnatural color tone, many critics thought it ugly. The texture of the statue makes it lifelike while the value (darkness from metal) takes away from its life likeness at the same time. The direction of the dancer's pose creates balance.

The Little Dancer