Portraiture

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Photography and mixed media collages created by Rosanna Jones

Photography has many tips and tricks of the trade used both by amateurs and famous photographers - the many uses of light, perspective, darkness, exposure, and many other bits are what makes beautiful pictures. All of that wouldn't come to one unified look without shadows though as they are what gives the image depth or in some cases, changes the view entirely. Also, they're free, they're everywhere, and there's no limit to what you can do with them if you have the know-how.

Nikos Gyftakis was born in Athens, Greece in 1981. He studied Painting, at the School of Fine Arts at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. S...

Thread art by Mondongo

Works by Paul Wright: All of my colours , Body & Soul , Colour Spray , Evening place , Flourish , Flower Bomb , Last of the Summer , Leaning Oak , Orange Clouds , Past present and future , Prima Ballerina , Ready for my close up , Spring...

Skin: Revisited. Mixed media painted beauty portraits by Rosanna Jones

Image via Fashion is Not a Religion // It’s getting to that point where we have so many inspiration posts that I had to look back through them to make sure I didn’t already post about collages. Honestly I’m surprised that I haven’t already talked about how much I love this medium. #collages #collagesinspiration #collageideas #collageart

Alessio Albi's close-up portraits draw attention to finer bodily details – capturing them with mesmerising intensity and heightened colours.

Mark Powell uses nothing but a simple Bic Biro ballpoint pen to create incredibly detailed portraits of the elderly. His chosen canvases are antique documents dating from 1763 onwards.