Laith McGregor

He's well known for his biro beard men, but I'm really liking more of Laith McGregor's recent work like Ping Pong Paradise.

Ping Pong Paradise (detail) 2011

100 Whales 2008

Untitled 2008

  

Beautiful hand-drawn Alphabet

Jakub Konvica

"Inspired by the famous Czech writer and poet Karel Hynek Mácha and his poem 'May'. I created an illustrated alphabet, in which every character illustrates words which appear in the poem. Afterwards, I cut the alphabet to pieces and rearranged them into new characters, which now represent the concrete stories."

Go to http://www.behance.net/konvica to see more amazing drawings.

Gabriella Barouch

Drawings by Gabriella Barouch who just finished school at the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in Israel and now lives and works in Paris (via stumbling through dark rooms).

Christina Empedocles

Unkempt 3 2011

Thank You #53609 2010

Hill Auditorium 3-18-89  2010

Christina Empedocles, born and raised in Ann Arbor, Michigan, discovered her love of nature on early morning bird watching trips in the fourth grade. After graduating from Oberlin College in Ohio, she started her career as a geologist in San Francisco before transitioning to fine art, receiving her MFA in painting from California College of the Arts in 2008.

Empedocles uses obsessive realism in an attempt to recapture her early fascination of the natural world, mixing idealized images and reality in a unique perspective. By folding and cutting images, using sculpture, painting and collage, she records personal moments and impressions, enhanced by the ephemera of everyday. Her work is the result of hours of looking – contrasting the nostalgic fantasy of idealized memory and the intense focus of the realistic image.

 Christina has been awarded a public art project at the University of California, San Francisco, and has had her work included in Manifest’s International Drawing Annual, Studio Visit Magazine, American Art Collector and Color & Color. She currently shows in Denver and New York.