Eclectic Color Roundup: Watercolor Exhibition, Hand Lettering, True Colors Video & a German Design Studio

By evad // August 30, 2010

Art

"Perfectly Flawed" New Work by Stina Persson

September 9 – October 1, 2010
Opening reception September 9, 7-9 pm
RSVP info@galleryhanahou.com

In her new solo show “Perfectly Flawed,” Stockholm artist Stina Persson abandons her digital safety net to create unaltered works that are beautifully imperfect – or imperfectly beautiful – as a response to the increasingly flawless images with which we surround ourselves.

Over the course of 10+ years working as a commercial illustrator, Stina has found herself conforming to trends of narrowing hips and ever-smoother skin by digitally altering her original watercolors, often without prompting from a client: edges have gradually become cleaner, features more defined, and the painterly more photographic.

Fully conscious of going down this “slippery slope of adjusting, fixing, and retouching,” Stina is ready to see the handmade, crooked, and flawed gain appeal, an aesthetic inspired by the 1970s, when social and environmental issues didn’t take a back seat to Botox in the public consciousness. For her newest work, the artist asked herself what would happen if she didn’t scan, didn’t retouch, and didn’t work digitally at all. The result of that question is a series of more than 30 new works on paper, watercolor pieces of women with running paint, unconventional color choices, and skewed perspective – imperfections that are natural, unsettling, and beautiful.

Hand Lettering by Daren Booth

Porfolio

Darren uses his collage pieces to determine the color palette for his work.

Video

True Colors

"Four month exhausting hard work in an abonded area, no sun just artificial light. The final result, a stop motion movie with no digital effects at all, everything is handmade. About 5000 pictures are processed with an average by 15 pictures per second. The music is by Pretty Lights from Denver, Colorado, thanks Derek!" - YouTube

Via our friend in common, PureForm.

Design

Work of Schmitz und Wiesner

Porfolio

Header Image Inspiration

Photo by BNF.

Written by evad

www.colourlovers.comDavid Sommers has been loving color as COLOURlovers' Blog Editor-in-Chief for the past two years. When he's not neck deep in a rainbow he's loving other things with The Post Family (http://thepostfamily.com/), a Chicago-based art blog, artist collective & gallery.