The Recent, Striking Scenes of Amandine Urruty

Armed with charcoal and graphite, Amandine Urruty continues to craft scenes packed with characters and surprises in every corner. In recent works, the artist’s Victorian sensibility gorgeously renders both human and pop-cultural figures alike. Urruty was featured in Hi-Fructose Vol. 44.

“As she masters techniques of traditional drawing, Amandine Urruty offers a charming gallery of deviant portraits, associating grotesque outfits with baroque decorum which miraculously reconcile lovers of alchemistic symbolism to young ladies with too much make up,” a recent statement says. “Indeed, Amandine Urruty builds her images like we would wander in the alleys of a Sunday fee market, borrowing to the mass of objects and their second hand toys their fundamental ambivalence, being wicked and peaceful, decorative and saturated at the same time.”

See more of her recent work below.

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Amandine Urruty, Charcoal, graphite

Charcoal, Realism, Stephanie Buer

June 25, 2016

Stephanie Buer has been exploring the decay and evolution of cityscapes since studying at College for Creative Studies in Detroit in the mid-2000s, where she began to pursue a career in painting and drawing. In her charcoal works, these urban scenes garner a sense of desolation, stripped of even fading hues or sunlight. Buer was last featured on Hi-Fructose here.

Dylan Andrews’ Charcoal Portraits Play with Shadows

Charcoal, drawing, dylan andrews, portraits, Portraiture

May 22, 2015

England based artist Dylan Andrews uses light and shadow to portray emotion in his drawings. His monochromatic charcoal portraits build up to a dramatic intensity that is almost surreal. Owing to the drama and atmosphere in his pieces is the use of black and white high contrast of tones. Pattern and texture is another aspect of the work that he uses to explore the emotional possibilities. The shadows on his young subjects' extend the reality of the image beyond the page, a reflection from an object we cannot see.

Brandon Locher’s Intricate ‘Maze’ Drawings

Brandon Locher, drawing, graphite

October 3, 2017

Brandon Locher is a New York-based visual artist and musician with a prolific output in both areas. His "Mazes to the Motherlode" portfolio contains 50 pieces of art created over the past few years. These ink and graphite labyrinths differ in approach and convolution, yet all are alluring in their intricacies.

Disorienting, Large-Scale Graphite Drawings by Melissa Cooke

drawing, graphite, Melissa Cooke, self-portrait

June 10, 2014

New York-based artist Melissa Cooke uses herself as a primary reference point, both physically and emotionally. While many of the subjects of her large-scale graphtie drawings are modeled after the artist's own likeness, her works go deeper below the surface to investigate the uncomfortable crevices of the psyche one must traverse in order to truly know oneself. Her most recent series, Plunge is a meditative series of close-up self-portraits of Cooke in her favorite place of solace: her bathtub. A place of escape from frantic New York City life, the tub is a safe haven for the artist. The drawings are not entirely utopian and placid, however: There are notes of tension as water and suds splash her face like the turbulent tides of the ocean.

The Recent, Striking Scenes of Amandine Urruty

Stephanie Buer Explores Urban Landscapes With Charcoal on Paper

Dylan Andrews’ Charcoal Portraits Play with Shadows

Brandon Locher’s Intricate ‘Maze’ Drawings

Disorienting, Large-Scale Graphite Drawings by Melissa Cooke

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