BEAUTY: AI Digital Art for Winter--Robert Mealing (Spiritus Loci)

Artist Robert Mealing working as Spiritus Loci (previously here) uses the AI tool Midjourney to create some gorgeous portraits of Pagan and Druid men (and magical spirits?) from long ago in his "Winterborne" series...perfect for this time of year.

https://spiritusloci.tumblr.com/

BEAUTY: AI Digital Art for Halloween--Robert Mealing (Spiritus Loci)

Artist Robert Mealing uses the AI tool Midjourney to create some gorgeous, spooky imagery, and his ongoing October Misremembered series is perfect for this time of year. I posted his creations last year here, and he has updated the project with new images for 2024, seen below. This new crop reminds me of Victorian Ghost Photography, seen here.

https://spiritusloci.tumblr.com/

BEAUTY: Photography: Franciscus & Franciscus

The Dutch team of Franciscus & Franciscus--consisting of the joined forces of artist F. Franciscus and his husband, graphic designer and stylist Rienus Gündel Franciscus--are working on an on-going, highly stylized series of photographic portraits they call Pilgrimage.

They say, "Inspiration came from monks painted by, among others, Zurbarán, Rembrandt and Greco."

https://fransfranciscus.nl/
http://rienus.info/

BEAUTY: Photography--Oleg Dou

The smooth bodies and blurred gender impressions of the images in Oleg Dou's Heaven In My Body series is evocative and provocative...

Take a look at Dou's fascinating approach and process (he uses Photoshop to achieve this smooth, otherworldly effect) in this charming video:

Top to bottom: 9 Tears; Flora; Narcissus In Love; Narcissus; Pet; Vampire Ballet

http://olegdou.com/

BEAUTY: Photography--Ingrid Baars

The fine art photography of Ingrid Baars'  l'Afrique series focuses on the iconic beauty of images of women from ancient Africa. I love how Baars takes photographs of women but morphs them into carved African heads and masks, the kind that inspired Cubist artists in the early twentieth century, or mystical goddesses. Some remind me of the marvelous work that Jean-Paul Goude was doing with Grace Jones in the 80s.

http://ingridbaars.com/