Teatrio

Teatrio, an arts association in Italy, is behind an amazing traveling exhibition titled "The Fabulous Colored Pencils," which has been touring through Italy for more than a year and features what they consider to be the best 40 female illustrators worldwide. Included among the works on display are originals by Yuko Shimizu, Juliette Borda, Esther Watson (illustration pictured left), and Fernanda Cohen. Each artist was …

Balint Zsako

Hungarian-born illustrator and artist Balint Zsako creates beautiful images. Be sure to check out his incredible collages—they're otherworldly, hypnotic and compelling. Crafted from elements that skirt along the edges of the familiar, Zsako creates dreamlike vistas and interiors, as elements from western art history are carefully re-articulated into new mysterious forms. (Click image for detail.)

Paolo Ventura Dioramas

Is it possible to love dioramas too much? I don’t think so. I particularly love the macabre dioramas of Paolo Ventura. His first body of work, called "War Souvenir," is a series of scenes set in his native Italy during WW II. The images are often gruesome in their detail—murders, hangings, dead soldiers face down in the mud—while others have an almost casual romance about …