Lesley Smitheringale Fine Art

Stunning attention to detail in these illustrations showing a vivid imagination and lovely sense of colour.

Ronald Kurniawan graduated with honors from Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California. Inspired by ideograms, syllables, letterforms, beasts and heroic landscapes, he slowly but surely continues to create a visual language where the wilderness and civilization could merge happily together. With the belief that the sublime and nuclear age could coexist, he paints romantic environments and breaks the quiet scene with juxtaposed imagery taking the shape of icons and letterforms. He currently lives and works in Los Angeles where he paints meticulously and happily accompanied by his pug Ruffles, an avid artist himself.

“B Wary” plansponsor

CHILICILI Cover for vodafone in the Czech Republic, where all fairytales come together.

“X” Steps of Ronald’s painting - acryclic on wood

“A Buffoon on an Island ” acrylic on birch/ 5′ x 3′ / roq la rue galler

Ronald Kurniawan’s Website

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After a long gap of not doing any artwork due to concentrating on photography, I have dug out my chalk pastels again.  I have had an urge to do artwork again for quite some time and after a shaky start, I am slowly developing this portrait of a friend’s dog who is called Tammy.  I took some photographs of my work at various stages just as an experiment so that I can see how my own work develops.  Also, sometimes, it’s not until you look at a photograph of your work that you realise the glaring mistakes and areas that just “don’t look right”.  Anyway, here’s what I’ve done so far with Tammy.

A Photograph I took of Tammy as source material

Initial sketch of Tammy onto a deep blue pastel paper

Initial stages of pastel drawing

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I happened to spy this itty bitty gecko when I was in my garden today and he was about the size of a matchstick.  He kept sticking his tiny little tongue in and out but I couldn’t quite capture this in time.

This feathered friend was very blasé and normally when I get anywhere near the galahs they get nervous but this youngster was quite happy when I pointed the lense at him - he was not about the give up the seed bell that he was happily munching on.

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This young Brazilian graphic designer has produced a novel range of design products and I particularly admire his paper animals which are quite stunning.

I like to work with different medias and techniques, mixing them to create new ways to represent ideas and concepts.

“Paper Forest” poster “In nature, everything turns into more nature”
All the animals and plants were made with paper techniques

“Chinese Tea Box” We decided to give to some ordinary packages a new face based on the product inside, creating a kind of toy-pack, a beautiful object, that people can not put on the trash, but take it to them, reusing the pack. In this case, a beatiful chinese girl opens her mouth to offer you a delicious jasmine tea.”

Carlo Giovani’s Website

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Wired.com asked their subscribers to explore the tiny, overlooked universes that surround us … and blow them up.  “Turn your toothbrush bristles into a nylon forest, tree bark into the Grand Canyon, or your juicy steak into some gristly, alien terrain. Make us into hypochondriac germaphobes through the level of detail you capture.”

Here are the ten outstanding macro photographs which were selected as winners by the readers.

Eye of a tokay gecko by Mr M - overall winner

The Fly by Glenn Young

Ice-Cold Nebula by Philippe Holtzuizen

Mantodea by Vladimer Shioshvili

Yellow Paper Wasp by Bryan Johnson

Dying Tea Light Candle by Jordan

Bubble Magic by Sophie

Waterhead by Maxim Dolgobrod

High Tech Jumper by Coder

My Eye by David Harpe

Wired.com macro photography site

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This is a heartwarming tale of an adventure for six ducklings and their mom in Gosford, Newcastle.

A MOTHER duck braved traffic and a housing estate during a TWO-MILE chase to rescue her babies from a sewer.

The six ducklings fell down an underground access and were swept away – but mum could not fit through it.

So the mallard followed their frantic quacks overground across two main roads and a railway line until they stopped under a manhole in Gosforth, Newcastle.

She then sat quacking loudly for at least four hours until jogger Peter Elliott, 59, and daughter Vicki Jefferson, 30, stopped to see what was wrong with her.

They were amazed to hear the faint sound of quacking coming from under the cover and, with the help of friend Jim Calder, lifted it off with a crowbar.

They were even more stunned to see the six ducklings below — and lifted them all out to safety with a child’s fishing net.

Northumbria Water staff used a laptop showing the sewage layout to work out where the babies had got into it — and how far the mother had walked after them.

A spokesman for Northumbria Water said “It was an unbelievable journey.

The storm drain where it all began and the mother duck’s incredible journey

The two men who rescued the six trapped ducklings

Original Post by R Perrie: Sun UK

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MEET furry friends Mausi and Muschi – the cat and the bear who are a zoo’s odd couple. The female moggy and the male Asian black bear live, eat, sleep and even play together. Their unlikely friendship was forged seven years ago when Mausi entered Muschi’s enclosure at Germany’s Berlin Zoo and started to eat his food.

Zoo caretaker Thomas Dvrflein said: “Mausi was accepted straight away. Visitors ask why they are tolerant of each other. We can’t say. Perhaps its love. Maybe this bear is really just a big pussycat.”

Original Source: The Sun UK

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Australian photographer Rob Gray has produced some stunning shots in his portfolio and he is kindly offering many to be downloaded as desktop wallpapers. See the whole collection at Rob Gray Wallpapers and here are a few examples.

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