Not sure if you've seen Mravka's paintings, but they are these badass geometric color monsters with color shards that blend into each other.

Anyway they are very inspiring so I made a few things using his work as a motive:

oh my god. that's awesome. i didn't know that he could do such awesome things



aand these little digital pieces are also great. so minimalistic

nice stuff. yours and Mark's. :)

love it!! great job!

love it!! great job!

Sam, I've tootled around in photoshop and illustrator at length in the past, trying to see if I could replicate the complex interplay of layers, colors, shapes and transparencies that mark's paintings showcase, and looked a little like this too.

I still don't really know how he does it (or has the patience and organization to execute it so flawlessly in paint!).

Yeah as if the color interaction wasn't enough, being able to paint that stuff is really interesting to me, since I am terrible at mixing colors physically hehe

I'd love those paintings no matter who made them, pretty cool that it's Mark :)

COLOURlovers should have a hall of fame.

And I nominate Mravka as the first inductee!

HAHAHAHAHAHA you guys are so sweet... I love love love love love them. Thank you Sam.
I'd like to think that it's very difficult to draw my images, but for me that's the easy part, the real challenge is to paint them, to add the human touch to the digital / virtual / machine made... or whatever you want to call it. It takes a lot of patience more than anything else. And lots of masking tape. He he...

:P

These look really wonderful large too... I hadn't clicked on the images before tonight, well done.

As I wrote on manekineko's profile page, these drawings remind me a lot of two of my influences that every Colourlover should get to know; El Lissitzky, particularly his series of "Prouns" and László Moholy-Nagy's paintings. Check them out.