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Malin Rosenqvist's textural works are inspired by her love of reading

Creative Boom

In the outskirts of Stockholm, a Swedish artist named Malin Rosenqvist weaves intricate tales through the medium of illustration. Otherwise, the artist draws inspiration from a variety of cultural forms, including books and music. Books, particularly reading, hold a special place in Malin's heart.

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Sarah Mafféïs illuminates everyday moments through texture, tone and craft

Creative Boom

These scenes, infused with nostalgia and warmth, are coupled with Sarah's distinctive style that feels textural and partially translucent – bubbles, bottles, glasses and various table-top objects are stacked on top of each other in artworks reminiscent of a blissful collage. This is the stage where my initial idea truly comes to life."

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CiCi Suen's beautiful, textured drawings explore the hidden universe of nature

Creative Boom

London-based artist CiCi Suen has turned her attention to the secret forms and complex structures that can only be found in nature in her beautiful series of charcoal and pastel drawings. Reflecting on my artistic journey, my initial motivation has always been fuelled by passion. They have no story, no particular time or place.

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Hanneke Rozemuller constructs dreamy, textural scenes as a way of making sense of the world

Creative Boom

One glance at Hanneke Rozemuller 's portfolio, and you'll stumble upon a sea-blue scene with cloud-like textures reminiscent of a dream, a floating figure appears surrounded by thought bubbles. The piece is textured and beautifully nonsensical for the way it merges motifs and objects into a rosy, hypnagogic drawing.

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Unexpected Sittings: Collins Obijiaku captures untapped potential in rick textural paintings

Creative Boom

Self-taught Nigeria-based artist Collins Obijiaku is currently taking Roberts Projects by storm with his inaugural solo show, Unexpected Sittings. By working directly onto paper and canvas, Collins slowly builds up the textures and contours of his portraits with considerable skill.

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Top 20+ Grunge Textures, Brushes and Vectors (Free & Premium)

Just Creative

Grunge textures are easily any designer’s favorite effect because of the organic ruggedness they extend to designs. Like several other visual assets creatives enjoy today, textures are great indicators of mood, tone, and voice. You can also change the intensity level and combine it with different textures to produce new effects.

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Hannah Lock draws hard with pencils and pastels to create vibrant, textured illustrations

Creative Boom

As well as describing her artistic style as colourful, Hannah says that her illustrations sit "somewhere between semi-realistic, and not." Lately, I’ve been adding a bit of oil pastel and crayon into a few of my colour pencil drawings to add more texture to them.". Artistic inspirations, for me, change daily," she says. "I

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