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Great work by Saarbrücken, Germany-based illustrator Simón Prades. More images below.

Paintings by Los Angeles-based Korean artist Joanne Nam (previously featured here and here). More images below.

More incredible murals by Ukrainian masters, Interesni Kazki (a.k.a. AEC and WAONE). Click here to check out previous posts. More images below.

American artist and writer Eric Green’s beautiful coloured pencil renderings of mirrored rooms and cosy time-lapsed diptychs. More images below.

Drawings by Sheffield, England-based artist Craww. More images below.

Collages by Brussels-based artist David Delruelle. More images below.

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Australian artist Juan Ford’s beautifully detailed paintings of randomness. More images below.

Fairy tale-esque paintings by Russian artist Rustam QBic. More images below.

Drawings by artist Daan Noppen, found via our December Reader Submissions. More images below.

Paintings by French artist Antoine Cordet, living and working in Paris. More images below.

Finely detailed drawings by Washington, DC-based artist Ben Tolman. More images from “Civilized” below.

A selection of works by Bristol-based illustrator Harriet Lee-Merrion. More images below.

Striking and thoughtful series of gouache and ink works by Newmarket, New Hampshire-based artist Michael Dandley. “Side Effects” is concerned with the disturbing and ultimately incompatible ways lands and oceans are changed to accommodate our modern conveniences. More images below!

Love this series of puddles by illustrator Jon McNaught. More images below.

A selection of work by Polish duo, artists Sainer and Bezt (Etam Cru). These two have mastered large-scale painting, free-handing 10-storey walls without breaking a sweat. I’ve seen some mural artists’ work that look really tight as a small image on the Internet and all loosey goosey in person, but everything Sainer and Bezt paint is precise.

I’ve included a selection of their collaborative murals, solo walls, and personal paintings. Enjoy.

New York-based artist Alison Moritsugu’s log paintings are so meta your head might explode. The wood used in her log series are collected from the areas depicted on the landscapes she paints on them. The salvaged logs have all also fallen naturally and contribute to a larger environmental statement about our idealized and mistaken beliefs that the wilderness will always be there. More images below!

Vibrant photographs of Hong Kong skyscrapers by Australian photographer Peter Stewart. See more images from Stewart’s series, “Stacked,” below!

It’s been over a year since we last checked in with artist duo Deepti Nair and Harikrishnan Panickerof Hari & Deepti, who construct elegant cut paper dioramas inside backlit light boxes. The medium is perfect for depicting the depth of thick forests, pools of water, or subterranean caves inhabited by spirits and fantastic creatures.

Over the last year Hari & Deepti relocated from Denver to Mumbai where they just completed work for their first European show at Blank Space Gallery in Oslo titled ‘We Are All Made of Stars.’ Like previous exhibitions the event was held in a darkened gallery with the only light emitted from their artwork to better emphasize the themes of travel and adventure depicted in their light boxes.

Keep an eye out for new works in December at Context Art Miami with Black Book Gallery. You can also see more on Instagram.

Picture perfect paintings by Costa Mesa, California-based artist, Michael Ward. Check out more of his wonderfully detailed (and slightly nostalgic) work below!

A selection of hyperreal paintings by Korean artist Kanghoon Kang. More images below.

Love these paintings by Malaysian artist Gan Chin Lee. More images below.

A selection of unsettling paintings by Bagnacavallo, Italy-based artist Nicola Samori (previously featured here and here). More images below.

More sketches and finished drawings by artist Pat Perry, originally from Michigan, now based in Detroit. More images below.

Fantastic urban abstracts by California-based artist and Cal Poly State University art professor, Daniel Dove. See more of Dove’s paintings below!

View the whole post: Artist Spotlight: Daniel Dove over on BOOOOOOOM!.

Haunting, hair-entrapped portaits by Roos van der Vliet. More from her “Storytellers” series below.

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Athansor Rises from the Sea illustrated by Erin Kelso
From the book ‘Winter’s Tale’ by Mark Helprin

Contact Light, 2014, Oil and linen, 60 x 45 inches

Heavily tinted blue paintings form space stations, spacesuits, and rockets just after blast. Michael Kagan paints these large-scale works to celebrate the man-made object—machinery that both protects and holds the possibility of instantly killing those that operate the equipment from the inside. To paint the large works, Kagan utilizes an impasto technique with thick strokes that are deliberate and unique, showing an aggression in his application of oil paint on linen.

The New York-based artist focuses on iconic images in his practice, switching back and forth between abstract and representational styles. “The painting is finished when it can fall apart and come back together depending on how it is read and the closeness to the work,” said Kagan about his work. “Each painting is an image, a snapshot, a flash moment, a quick read that is locked into memory by the iconic silhouettes.”

Kagan exhibited this series of space-based paintings last year at Joshua Liner Gallery in an exhibition titled Thunder in the Distance. He was also recently commissioned by The Smithsonian to create three large paintings inspired by their air and space archives. You can see more of his work on his Instagram here. (via Fubiz)

One Day This Will All Be Yours, 2014, Oil and linen, 60 x 80 inches

Reflector, 2014, Oil and linen, 36 x 36 inches

We Live On In The Thoughts Of Others, 2014, Oil and linen, 36 x 36 inches

Apollo, 2010, Oil and linen, 60 x 34 inches

Supersonic, 2014, Oil and linen, 72 x 54 inches

Mankind, 2014, Oil and linen, 96 x 54 inches

With All The Fucking Force, 2011, Oil and linen, 60 x 80 inches

Wonderfully detailed (and somewhat grotesque) work by St. Louis-based artist Lauren Marx! More images below.

View the whole post: Artist Spotlight: Lauren Marx over on BOOOOOOOM!.