Contemporary Artist of the Week:

The Fantasy Art of Anna Dittmann

Annita Dittmann grew up in San Francisco and moved to Georgia to receive a BFA in illustration from the Savannah College of Art and Design.  Her Dreamy, fantastical illustrations capture an incredibly sensitive world of magic and shifting spring.  Dittmann's grip on the digital medium is extraordinary and serves her themes of fantasy illustration perfectly. 

via Juxtapoz 

 

Idle Hands from Dana Harel

Idle Hands from Dana Harel 
Original Article published on Monday November 12, 2012 
http://www.juxtapoz.com 


Israeli-born and San Francisco-based illustrator Dana Harel's large scale graphite illustrations explore humans' places in the natural world. Using the repeated motifs of hands and wings, Harel's illustrations fuse the human body with plant and animal structures, provoking viewers to re-consider the human "hubris" as a dominant species.

Compare and Contrast the image above 

to MC Escher's Drawing of Hands Below: