Alice's Blog Posts Tagged 'portraits' (32)

Stafford Lane

Artist Ed Fairburn has recently come out with new works that live somewhere between sculptures and drawings. He's still using traditional ink to draw on maps but now he's cutting and layering maps to create incredibly intriguing works. For the piece above,…

In all our years of running My Modern Met, we've seen our share of amazing pixelated portraits. Humans (and even animals) have been made out of everything from crayons and…

Alexandra Benetel has many fond memories of traveling with her family at a very young age. She remembers picking up a disposable camera at a local store and shooting all the scenes around her. Her real passion for photography, however, didn't fully develop until she enrolled in a visual design course in high school. As she tells us, "During that time, I learned about pinhole…

Prejudice



Though Budapest, Hungary-based photographer Noell S. Oszvald currently has only 22 total photos on her Flickr page, they're all so incredibly powerful, you could spend hours looking at each one. The 22-year-old started taking photos a little over a year ago, though you wouldn't know that she was so new to photography by looking at her stunning…

California-based artist Andrew Myers, who we first introduced you to almost two years ago, has just released these images from his new screw art series. Called "We Don't Belong in the Shadows," it consists of three new portraits that are each made from around 2,000 screws as well as…

Photographer Gerrard Charles Gethings has a rare gift. He has the ability to capture the individual personalities of dogs with a quick push of a button. Set against a minimal background, he lets them shine in a way that never feels contrived and, instead, always feels honest.

Last year, Gethings came out with a book on Blurb called…

This past August, over 100,000 of you fell in love with Ron Schmidt's wonderfully witty dog portraits, making it one of our most popular posts that month. Today, we bring you 12 more photos from his collection, called…

It's almost too crazy to believe. Artist Nikki Douthwaite collects unwanted paper - hole-punch dots - sorts them by color and then painstakingly arranges them using a pair of tweezers into incredible portraits. Over the past three years she's created these modern pointillism portraits of some very famous celebrities. John Lennon and Marilyn Monroe are each composed of…

Though we've seen a lot of dog portraits in our time (see here, here and…

While at first glance these stunning black and white portraits look like they were created in Illustrator, you'd be surprised to find out they're actually pen drawings. 20-year-old England-based artist Josh Bryan has a set called Triangulations where he's taken some well-known celebrities - like Marilyn Monroe, Albert Einstein, Helen Bonham Carter, and Johnny Knoxville - and…

I came across these animal drawings by Sydney-based artist Jaimee Paul and was amazed by just how realistic they looked. (The fur! The feathers!) Growing up on a farm in New Zealand with eight dogs, four cats, two horses and many lambs, she's used to being surrounded by animals. It’s no wonder then, that now she focuses on them.

"They have such personality, they’re so complex…

Inspired by Flemish paintings, particularly those by famed Dutch painter Rembrandt, photographer Sacha Goldberger has created a beautiful set of portraits. "I like the light and the way characters pose and look at you," he says.

Goldberger not only worked with a team on costumes, make-up and hair, he enlisted the help of some highly unconventional friends. "All of the…

These days, you don't have to go very far to find inspiration, particularly if you're an aspiring photographer. Like many before him, 20-year-old Kyle Thompson cites fellow Flickr photographer Alex Stoddard (and My Modern Met favorite) as one of his own.

Thompson takes self-portraits up a notch with his surreal and stunningly eerie style. Unafraid to take risks, he creates…

Surrey, England-based Heather Ackroyd and Dan Harvey take something we all take for granted, grass, and turn it into a fascinating medium for artistic expression. Their unique portraits are created by exposing plots of seedling grass to light through a custom-made negative, making the grass grow in different shades, from yellow to green. Basically, they harness the process of…

Fans of the hit tv show Breaking Bad, you're going to get a kick out of this. Malaysian artist Cheeming Boey just made a set of awesome Breaking Bad portraits using his signature medium - foam coffee cups! Boey, who gained online notoriety back in 2009, has…

Many of you saw yesterday's heart-wrenching photos of shelter dogs. In fact, just on Facebook and Twitter alone we received these comments:

@Jane Farrell: They are heartbreaking and beautiful. I also hope they spur viewers to action. Adopt a shelter animal!…

I came across Traer Scott's portraits of dogs living in American shelters and was immediately taken aback by the mix of emotions I felt. Look at these dogs' faces and you'll see what I mean. The Providence, Rhode Island-based photographer shoots up-close black and white portraits of shelter dogs, some of which found good homes while others were eventually…

George Clooney



Photographer Gavin Bond recently shot these gorgeous black and white photos for Newsweek magazine's Oscar Roundtable. Taken in Smashbox Studios in West Hollywood, these minimalist portraits really bring out the different personalities of each actor. Love how he even captured the scene-stealing 9-year-old Jack Russell from The…

Many of us rely on Skype to call our loved ones, but have you ever seen it used by an artist to paint portraits of people? Heidelberg, Germany-born artist Sandro Kopp has created a body of work that features friends, family and famous people who were asked to sit as models between three to five hours at a time as Koop painted them…

Albert Einstein. Andy Warhol. Woody Allen. Frida Kahlo. Though countless portraits of them have been made before, never have we seen them quite like this. Spanish realist artist Mario Soria recently reached out to us to tell us about his paintings of icons where he mixes hyperrealism, pop art and surrealism. While the person in the portrait is always in black and white, he adds a dash of something…