Sandra Chevrier

Sandra Chevrier is a Canadian artist based in Montreal. Working in her home studio, Chevrier is constantly producing new products and ideas at a full time pace as an illustrator, painter, artist and also a single mother. Her work is mostly exhibited in Canada as well as the USA, UK, Europe and Asia. Her work takes her travelling over a broad range of fluctuating emotional enigmas and concepts that have set the standard of our modern communication. The series ‘’Super heroes Cages’’ obtains a worldwide success and is now in the hands of collectors all over the globe; Europe, USA, Netherlands, Japan, New Zealand, Australia, Russia. The series "cages" is about women trying to find freedom from society's twisted preconceptions of what a woman should or shouldn't be. Chevrier creates this series by creating a collage out of old Superhero Comic Book pages and then using watercoloured paints to produce the women within her collage images.  


http://www.sandrachevrier.com/

Godfrey Caleb

Godfrey Caleb was an architecture who one day accidentally spilled coffee on some paper, being preoccupied he left the paper to dry. Later he recieved a phone call and during that conversation he began to doodle on the coffee stained sheet of paper; the result left him impressed and inspired. After retiring from architecture, Caleb began experimenting with art mediums, his main focus being coffee paintings. These involve using Coffee as a substitute for paint and also using Pencils for shading and outlining. Caleb has worked using other many other mediums too such as watercolour paper, canvas and yupo, but still he says "there seems to be the need everday to pour myself a cup of coffee, lay down a sheet of art paper and paint with coffee." He has been retired for several years now and even though he enjoyed his previous life as an architecture, he now finds peace at his cottage home or on field trips painting. Now he sells some of his Coffee creations and even takes custom orders to make money as well as that he sometimes teaches his Coffee painting methods to others who he refers to as his students, teaching them to "regulate the mixtures of coffee while painting to create the tones and intensity of the mixture to achieve depth and shades of shadows.!"

http://www.coffeepaintings.com/

Coco de Paris

Coco De Paris is the artist name used by a French male artist based in France, who works within mixed media based designs. His designs focus on using acrylic paints or inks to create and rendered images on top of antique french paper from books that are over 200 years old. The idea of combining vintage paper with paint formed from the initial idea of joining Old with the New as part of his art. He also states that the vintage paper brings out the vibrancy of the image he had created. Coco De Paris began selling his work on Etsy in Febraury 2011; since then he has sold over 14,000 copies of his artwork with very good feedback. Many publishers from around the world are interested in his work for publishing posters, greeting cards, etc. He is currently working with a US WorldMarked Company who plan to edit a lot of products using some of his designs: mugs, soap, notebooks, towels, phone cases, etc.

http://www.cocodeparis.com/

Lucinda Schreiber

Lucinda Schreiber is an Australian director, animator, and illustrator. Graduating with a MA in animation from UTS she then become a lecturer in motion graphics and animation. Her short film, “The Goat That Ate Time” (Which she created before her graduation) has been screened widely across Australia and the world, receiving national and international awards. Schreiber has directed and animated numerous music videos and advertisements for clients such as Coca-cola, Telstra, Gotye and more. She is now currently based in New York City and is represented by Photo play Films in Australia, Asia and the USA.

https://vimeo.com/111494782

https://vimeo.com/111494783

The two videos above are the advertisements for Coca-cola created by Schreiber, her main materials used within these videos was sugar paper and ink in the form of  stop-motion paper animation. She creates many different shapes and motions using the combination of paper and stop motion which creates a very smooth visual performance of art. The different use of colours also helps to seperate the different shapes from each other, they act very similar to vector graphics except non digital. The main colours she uses within these videos are red, green and white. The red and white are to portray the colour themes of Coca-cola, the green is also including to represent the new environmentally friendly approach that the company is taking.  

Bitmap Graphics

Bitmap Graphics are images composed of many tiny parts known as pixels, what are often different colours each pixel. Each individual pixel is possible to edit one at a time, however if you resize or zoom into a bitmap graphic it will decrease in quality and each individual pixel will become increasingly noticable. For example, the two images below are of the same image, the second image is a zoomed in version which as you can see has clearly decreased in quality:

Original Photograph (Photography is a prime example of Bitmap Graphics)

 

 

A screenshot of the Original Photograph zoomed in

The reason the quality begins to decrease as you zoom in is because the pixels themselves become more noticable to the eyes, which prevents the pixels from blending into each other and makes them appear as individual colours. So the more pixels within an image the higher the qality. Bitmap Graphics are usually quite large in terms of file size, since the computer has to store information about every single pixel in the image. It's also possible to actually edit each individual pixel. They can be edited or even created using softwares like Adobe Photoshop and Microsoft Paint. Bitmaps are usually stored as file formats such as these: .bmp, .dib, jpeg, gif, tiff, .png, depending on the number of pixels within the image and the colour depth or bits per pixel.

These are what indivual pixels look like at close viewing, solid coloured squares