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From his Brighton-based studio on the seafront, Mark Powell (previously) pieces together crinkled book pages and postcards laden with travel dispatches. The vintage collages serve as backdrops for the artist’s oversized portraits of older folks, whose pensive stares and deep wrinkles are rendered gently in ballpoint pen. Often magnified, the subjects complement the weathered, ephemeralContinue reading "Monumental Ballpoint Pen Portraits Are Rendered on Vintage Collateral by Artist Mark…

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GCSE art final piece by pupil at Orleans Park School. Title: Essence of the City

With the invent of GPS technology and map applications, paper maps are waning in use - but they are an essential material to English artist Ed Fairburn, who uses them as the canvas of his detailed portraits. Fairburn's work is an imaginative incorporation of the human form and topography. He's used maps of places from all over the world. The winding layouts of streets and rivers are enhanced to form wrinkles, veins, and other features of his subjects' faces.

An artist that really inspired me for this whole project was one of my favourite illustrators, Pat Perry. He sketches scenes he witnesses in every day life and that is what I’m doing in this …

British artist Ed Fairburn creates amazing hand-drawn portraits using old road maps and charts as his canvases.

GCSE 2015