Introducing Estelle Asmodelle - Artist of the Day

If you're looking for your daily dose of art inspiration, you don't have to look further. Here we have Estelle Asmodelle today, an amazing abstract artist also known as an Australian model, belly dancer, musician, activist, inventor, and academic. If anyone has ever told you being beautiful, smart and talented at the same time is impossible, well, let me prove they're wrong.

Hostile World by Estelle Asmodelle

Asmodelle's art gallery is a real collection of masterpieces, painted with the finest quality professional Liquitex acrylic paints, using the style of abstract expressionism. It's not hard to fall in love with her style, the powerful colours she uses, the wild and passionate compositions which enchanted me at first sight.

Estelle Asmodelle, born in Australia in 1964, started painting as a child, had her first exhibition at the age of 10 at the Berrima District Art Show. After school she started painting abstract pieces which were displayed at public arts events and finally she had her first solo exhibition ‘The 26 Cent Exhibition' at Wollongong City Gallery and, because it happened to be successful, her works were also shown at the Sydney University Art Department. 

The Journey by Estelle Asmodelle

Without any exaggeration we can say she was already successful as an artist, gaining more and more attention with her talent, during this period Asmodelle studied towards a physics and maths degree at Wollongong University.

With many years of work and notable exhibitions behind her - such as solo exhibitions in Sydney (Global Gallery, Gigi Gallery and several others) Australia, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum Japan, and over 100 group shows including Los Angeles - her digital designs are also worth to mention as gold and silver medal awarded works within the web designer awards networks.
Estelle has published her first art book in 2010 entitled as 'Transience', containing a collection of her canvas works created over a period of 20 years, also this year she's planning a second book with the title 'Aesthetic in Abstraction', focusing on her digital works.

Angels waiting in the Wings by Estelle Asmodelle

To see more of her works, you can check her Facebook gallery and also her works are available to purchase at her store which contains more than 100 original paintings by her!

Dark Creatures of Ink and Paper - The Art of Justell Vonk

Hard to describe with worlds what it feels like to look at the chilling drawings of Justell Vonk, 30 years old Russian artist living in Moscow currently. Her drawings could easily fit into Grimm's fairy tales, however, he uses her dreams and her expressions as inspiration.

Old Playmate by Justell Vonk

It’s always such a pleasure to have a conversation with someone this talented! I'm still wondering how artists can use colors to express themselves but working without colors can be just as exciting and Justell Vonk is the best example to demonstrate it.

- Justell Vonk is my artistic name. Currently I reside in Moscow, Russia but moving soon to Europe, closer to Baltic Sea. I'm Russian by original and I realized that making people to try to pronounce my real name is too cruel. My major inspirations are my dreams. And my dreams in their turn are heavily influenced by conversations I have with people, books I read and movies I watch.  I saw the major outlines of the drawings being already half asleep or sometimes half awake. I usually also have a title of a work popping up in my mind along with those outlines. When I begin putting first lines on paper the paper shows me the rest of the drawing and all the details that I need to add.

- Have you got a favourite artist?

- I can't name a favourite artist as there are lots of influences on my art that came from movies, fine arts, music. There would be a way too long list. Among my long term inspirations are Gustave Dore, Salvador Dali, David Cronenberg, HR Giger, HP Lovecraft.

- Currently I'm working with black ink in paper only but recently I also began to learn

"Futur" by Justell Vonk

tattooing. And I've got to draw or to paint something on metal surface for one of the upcoming shows, so probably I'll begin to paint again.

- Have you ever made an exhibition of your works?

- I have never had a personal show yet but I exhibited my works several times already. Early June my works will be on show during Wave-Gotik-Treffen in Leipzig and then I've got couple more shows planned this year, in the USA and Germany.

- I also sell my artworks, both originals and art prints. They are available through my Etsy store and I'm open for commissions as well!

If you are intereseted in her works, don't forget to check Instagram gallery, too, where you can find more of her artworks.

Now let's take a closer look at the amazing drawings of Justell Vonk:

Childhood Dreams Turned into Pantings - Maria Neri

Last time we've talked about nightmares and the opportunities of using them correctly in art. Now we have to show you the opposite way, when dreams are fitting into children's storybooks.

Reconstruction by Maria Neri - This girl slowly rebuilds herself from her pieces.

Maria Neri lives in Guadalajara - largest city of the Mexican state of Jalisco - works as a freelancer illustrator. Her works are actually inspired by children's books but mixing the elements of pop culture with surrealism. These paintings are calming and expressive at the same time telling a whole story on a single canvas.

- I mostly work with aquarell, gouache and acril. I had some exhibitions at the local art gallery. I've painted for many years but only the last 6 years professionally. - My goal is to vivify my characters, show their story, their feelings, expressions and build a whole universe around them. Every painting comes to life in its own reality. They're like the dreams we've had in our childhood.I want them to look like they're coming from fairy tales.

La Creacion - Maria Neri

La Creation - This character is just staring at you. Staring at you with her own message in her eyes - that creating comes from your heart. 

- I can say I have some favourite artists, like Shaun Tan and Jimmy Liao. I find Rebecca Dautremmer very inspiring as well.

Maria Neri's art is more than just some girls looking through us. They are looking into us, into our soul and into our everyday lives. They're telling us to stop for a moment and recognize those small things we all knew as a child. Those small things that can make a change in our personality, even in our lives. We have to take a deep breath and find our pieces; then patch together ourselves while noticing the beauty of existing. 

- I have a blog where I share my works, - better to say my painted stories - but people can also find me on Instagram as @maria_neri76. They can direct message me there if they are interested in my works.

Conspiracy by Maria Neri - Little creatures are collaborating to help us while we are dreaming.

Beautiful Nightmares - Introducing Clinton Meister

If you have seen David Lynch's terrifying movie "Eraserhead", you're a die-hard fan of Tim Burton which I myself am, or ever read an Edgar Allen Poe novel you know what I'm talking about when I say "a good kind of darkness". Nightmares can be beautiful as well.

"Nightmare Journal: I'm seven years old, playing with my best friend in the soy bean field across from our trailer park. I ask him to get some more stalks for the fort ware building.
He is no longer visible."

The connection between darkness and beauty is always a hard thing to consider. Some people identify it simply with skulls and demonic creatures, satanic tattoos and goth girls wearing black lipstick. This time we show you another kind of dark-themed art by Clinton Meister, 42 lives in a small suburb of Philadelphia Pennsylvania, can be found as @cmeisterartz on Instagram. You don't have to be an expert to tell what he's doing is high quality art. However, he never took art lessons he's works could easily be the illustration of your book or just a picture on the wall you can't get bored with.

In Heaven Everything is Fine by Clinton M.

- What's inspiring you?

- My inspiration comes from numerous places, I suppose. - says Clinton. - A lot of it comes from favorite writers and musicians and movies I love. With the icon series I took a lot from pop culture. This is an icon of Eraser Head. The icons were heavily influenced by Greek Orthodox art in Astoria, Queens NY. 

This piece is titled "In Heaven everything is Fine." It is pen and ink and gold acrylic paint on Mixed Media Paper.

- Some of my work is heavily influenced by nightmares I had from a child up to now. I sometimes suffer from severe night terrors, so I try to capture some of these reoccurring images on paper. 

"The wind begins to howl and the dried bears shake like rattles in their pods. The sky turns to night. From the darkness appears the man, covered in blood. I knew it was the blood of my friend. My dog attempts to attack, but is suspended in mid-air.
I know it's over for me."

Elephaskelter by Clinton Meister

- And sometimes - he continues - I like to just do ridiculous cartoons of insane people like Charles Manson.
My favorite artist is R. Crumb. His style and execution is remarkable. I also enjoy Barry McGee and Thomas Campbell as far as music goes. When I draw, I tend to listen to a lot of blues like Robert Johnson and Skip James. Otherwise, I'm prone to putting on a podcast like Last Podcast on the Left or Lore, or My Favorite Murder. I seldom watch television unless it's a movie.

- You never took an art class. So how did you end up as an artist?

- I was a theater nerd and communications major. I started drawing seriously after some rough patches in 2002 and haven't looked back. Since then I have participated in numerous group shows in Philadelphia and NYC. Had a couple solo exhibitions and am currently planning on getting back into showing after a three year hiatus!

- Is it possible to buy your drawings? If yes, where?

I have a Facebook page, I prefer to sell through there. I have both prints and originals available. I don't use a nickname, when I was a kid I was called as Pumpkin head. As an adult, my name pretty much works!

Make sure you check Clinton's page to see his freaking amazing drawings!

The man in the bean field by Clinton Meister

Amy Lee - Speak to me

Every mother should dedicate a song like this to their children. It makes your eyes wet without even realizing that you’re totally into the song. 

Speak to me was originally written to be the end title of the independent movie called Voice of the Stone, which the vocalist said was deeply touching her because of being a new mother herself.
We already saw Amy Lee in so much role and whatever she has ever done she's always done it the best way anybody could, now seeing her as a mother is more than our heart can take.

"I can't let go
You're every part of me
The space between is just a dream
You will never be alone"

Looking at her now is pure happiness and calmness.
Many of her fans were asking to bring back the good ol' Evanescence. Although it's really something unforgettable, this song fits the life she has now and even if it's not the same it's still wonderful.

"I will always be waiting
And I'll always be watching you
Speak to me"

She’s a mother by now, she's not broken anymore, and she shows us there are no wounds that cannot be healed.

"I feel you rushing all through me
In these walls I still hear your heartbeat
And nothing in this world can hold me back
From breaking through to you

We are one breath apart, my love
And I'll be holding it in 'til we're together
Hear me call your name
Just believe and speak, speak to me, speak to me."

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IT is coming... - #ITmovie

...And It's still hungry!

Something slinks in the sewers - does it sound familiar? Based on King’s 1986 horror novel, which was originally made into a miniseries in 1990, the chilling flick is set in a small American town where children regularly go missing — snatched by Pennywise the Clown.

The new It's trailer released in March 30 and it's chilling as hell! If you are familiar with Stephen King's work you ight know there is no King-story without that creepy atmosphere but we can't say that all the movie adaptations happened to be as good as the books are, not even similar. I - myself - by the way, loved the old Pennywise as well.

We all can at least confirm that this film looks damn horrifying. I'm not sure what this movie is going to be like, but the sight and the design looks really good, especially this new victorian-medieval costume Pennywise wears in the movie - designed and made by costume designer Janie Bryant.

“The costume definitely incorporates all these otherworldly past lives, if you will,” Bryant told Entertainment Weekly. “He is definitely a clown from a different time.”

Prepare yourself for a - hopefully - outstanding Stephen King experience that will be released in September 8 following a bunch of creepy clown sightings across the US that the film makers are taking at least partial responsibility for, claiming the craze was a viral marketing stunt to promote the film, excite and recruit audiance.

And if you haven't seen the trailer yet:

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