Creative Tempest » Illustration

Seb Lester

creativetempest — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 09:30:48 +0000

Seb Lester’s words do not sit still on the page. Watching closely, you can actually see the letters grow and curl off the page. The wandering serifs reach out and wrap around sans fonts like the revered Helvetica, choking it like kudzu on an oak tree. Unlike that destructive Japanese weed, Seb Lester’s creations are full of beauty and life. In a fast paced world full of ultra sleek fonts, Seb Lester dares to make us stop and spend some time to enjoy what we read.

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* Ben Tour

creativetempest — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 02:25:45 +0000

(Weekly Story Theme: Horror) Ben Tour plucks a single hair from his head and drops it into the ooze he has bubbling on his electric stovetop. A sudden puff of smoke, and the smell of an impending storm in the air signals that his arcane enchantment has taken effect. Across town in Shady Acres cemetery the corpses of the long dead, all but those who have turned to dust arise from the earth, born again, but not living. Ben Tours’s gaunt figure drawings, spattered in cool water colors and the odd dash of blood red, stick out like zombies on his canvas.

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Alex Forster

creativetempest — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 19:09:40 +0000

(Weekly Story Theme: Deep Sea) It is difficult to always see the source of an artist’s inspiration, and with Alex Forster is no different, except that we know the source, its just hard to find. In the depths of the ocean lurks a creature mutable in both shape and color, a fantastic octopus that can transforms and mimic its surroundings. It is from this deep creature that Alex Forster must find inspiration for his changing, plastic images.

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Guilherme Marconi

creativetempest — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 15:39:06 +0000

(Weekly Story Theme: Deep Sea) Most fish at the bottom of the ocean have lost all the bright vivid colors of their cousins, who dwell far above them. Except for one creature, Guilherme Marconi, a magnificent beast who has defied evolution to remain colored and patterned, even though it goes forever unnoticed in the blindness of the bottom of the ocean.

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* Linn Olofsdotter

creativetempest — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 16:21:05 +0000

(Weekly Story Theme: Deep Sea) Deep below a raging torrent of artistic frustration, down into a clam sea of distilled imagination, there at the boiling vents at the bottom of the ocean of inspiration Linn Olofsdotter wavers elegantly feeding off the nectar of creativity that spews from the center of the earth that barely ever reaches the surface.

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Matthew Woodson

creativetempest — Fri, 29 May 2009 16:21:09 +0000

(Weekly Story Theme: Detective) Unwittingly, Matthew Woodson is the world’s only legitimate psychic detective. His beautiful life-like and simultaneously dream-like illustrations are still images and crimes about to be set into motion. Though Matthew Woodson knows of his power, he decides not to tamper with fate, and continue to live his life as a simple artist.

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Andrea Joseph

creativetempest — Sat, 16 May 2009 00:45:52 +0000

(Weekly Story Theme: Romance) There is no other love like an illustrator’s hand and its pen. These two spend hours together everyday, inseparable, and when they are not together, the hand years for the cool grip of its beautiful slender pen. Andrea Joseph hand knows this feeling well, and his hand and its pen have been committed to each other for years now, and now on Creative Tempest they renew their vows.

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Nanami Cowdroy

creativetempest — Fri, 15 May 2009 02:55:17 +0000

(Weekly Story Theme: Romance) Nanami Cowdroy tented her fingers together and twiddled her thumbs. Her legs were crossed tightly, and she was sunk far down into a huge comfortable couch with a pillow stuck between her arms and her chest. As if to remain balanced on a fulcrum, her date sat at the opposite end of the sofa. Nanami clicked the remote, and the T.V. image shrunk to blackness, and the only sound left in the room was the gurgle of a large tropical fish tank that stood behind the couch. As Nanami scooted in closer to her date, so he scooted closer to her, maintaining that tricky balance. The kissing Gouramis fluttered around in the tank and pressed their lips together, as Nanami Cowdroy and her date did the same. Ever since that first kiss, Nanami Cowdroy has been inspired by exotic fish in her art.

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* Andy Gilmore

creativetempest — Wed, 13 May 2009 15:42:24 +0000

(Weekly Story Theme: Romance) If we were to boil down and refine all the frustrated ways, in which we attempt to express love, there would be left only abstract words, phrases, or ideas, and all these words, phrases, or ideas might just as easily describe the work of Andy Gilmore. The images he offers us rise and swell with colors and patterns mimicking the rush of emotions we feel when a special stranger, or an over-looked friend begin to invade our hearts. If Andy Gilmore’s images are paintings of the feeling of love, Creative Tempest is in love with love.

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Eduardo Recife

creativetempest — Fri, 08 May 2009 12:00:24 +0000

(Weekly Story Theme: Artificial Life) Long after humanity has become extinct, a single artificially intelligent robot, Eduardo Recife, pieces together it’s past. What Eduardo Recife creates are collages of images from our past, collected together not for their topical relevance, but more for aesthetic pleasure. For, you see, Eduardo Recife was not designed to see barriers between subject, time, space, color, etc… He was only made to create beauty.

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