Category: illustration

Jarno Kettunen x Jimmy Choo Raise Money For Pancreatic Cancer Awareness

Post author By Ninette Murk
Post date 11/02/2022

It’s always nice to discover projects of BFBW contributors, so we were delighted when we learned about the new charity campaign of illustrator Jarno Kettunen together with footwear and accessory brand Jimmy Choo, benefitting the JCM Foundation.

The Atlanta (USA) based JCM Foundation -raising money and awareness for early detection and cure for Pancreatic Cancer- invited artist Jarno Kettunen and fashion company Jimmy Choo to partner together for its ArtCAN 2021 fundraiser event. This unique and exclusive collaboration resulted in a printed T-shirt capsule collection featuring Jarno Kettunen’s custom made fashion illustrations as well as a live in-store portrait drawing and shopping event at the Jimmy Choo Atlanta store in December 2021.

The live event was a great success and helped raise $ 17.000 to support Pancreatic Cancer research at Johns Hopkins and Emory Universities.

Too late for me, you say? It is not too late to participate at all, as the fundraiser continues with the sale of these à la mode JCM Foundation x Jimmy Choo x Jarno Kettunen abstract art printed super-soft cotton T-shirts, available in both womenswear and unisex styles. Please join us and support a great cause by shopping these awesome t-shirts, now available worldwide at Jarno Kettunen’s online shop!

See and purchase the T-shirts here:

https://www.jarnok.com/online-store

And here’s a cool video of the event, enjoy!

Tags Jarno Kettunen, JCM Foundation, Jimmy Choo

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Karim Rashid

Post author By Ninette Murk
Post date 19/04/2021

GLOBALOVE

IG@karim_rashid_official

www.karimrashid.com

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Jarno Kettunen

Post author By Ninette Murk
Post date 10/04/2021

I would like to approach the concept of pure beauty through the image of my drawing I submitted. This drawing has a lot of meaning for me and although it’s one of the first ones I did as a professional illustrator, it is a perfect drawing done at the perfect moment. I was still starting out as a fashion illustrator drawing live at the backstage and getting a phone call from Dior was really a dream come true. Being invited to draw at such a major show in Paris with only a couple of other shows under my belt was really wonderful and exciting. It was awesome to witness the diverse teams of creative people, all being the best at what they do, intensely working together while the atmosphere was calm, fun and welcoming. Everyone seemed to be there only with one goal in mind: to make something amazing happen! That being said I quickly learned that not everything was so perfect. The idea was that I could choose favourite models and looks to illustrate before the show, but as I was getting ready to start I was told that the models didn’t have time to pose at all. The show had to start right away, as many important personalities had arrived earlier than expected. Instead of giving up I decided to simply start drawing and capture whatever I could while the show was in action. This drawing I selected is picturing a model quickly being changed into another look. His back was facing me and I captured the moment he was putting on a beautiful patent leather jacket in the exact color that I had with me. I often look at this drawing as inspiration for my new drawings, as for me it perfectly captures the essence of what I was looking at -the energy at the backstage- and exists in the cutting edge between expression, minimalism, representation and abstraction. So, pure beauty for me is not only what I’m looking at. It is a rare and wonderful occurrence that sometimes happens—a perfect combination of interactions with my subjects and their energy, the moments and scenes that I draw and the important ingredient of the unexpected!

Dior Homme Fall/Winter 2008-2009 Fashion Show Backstage Action Drawing

Artist and illustrator Jarno Kettunen: “Pure beauty for me is not only what I’m looking at. It is a rare and wonderful occurrence that sometimes happens—a perfect combination of interactions with my subjects and their energy, the moments and scenes that I draw and the important ingredient of the unexpected!”

IG@jarnosees

Tags Dior, Dior Homme, Jarno Kettunen

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Kristjana S Williams

Post author By Ninette Murk
Post date 07/04/2021

“Eons before the stumbling cartography of humans, once only birds traced an ocean’s depths to a mountain’s climb, their flight paths spanning vast, unguessed-at distances. And dragons unfurled in ancient, dangerous corners of the world, warning off any sight-seeing cats that drifted too close by. Kristjana reflects on the enigmatic past of world exploration. “Here be dragons” means unexplored territories, in imitation of a medieval practice of putting illustrations of dragons, sea monsters and other mythological creatures on uncharted areas of maps, where potential dangers were thought to exist.”

IG @ kristjanaswilliams

kristjanaswilliams.com

Tags Iceland, Kristjana S Williams

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Judit Garcia-Talavera Almenara

Post author By Ninette Murk
Post date 17/03/2021

Judit Garcia-Talavera Almenara: “Beauty is an attitude”

IG @ judit_garcia_talavera

https://www.juditlatragedia.com/

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Sandra Suy

Post author By Ninette Murk
Post date 16/03/2021

Sandra Suy: “Beauty is a dose of pleasure and magic for the soul”

IG @sandrasuyillustration

http://sandrasuy.com

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Raphael Bouquet (7)

Post author By Ninette Murk
Post date 20/12/2020

About his illustration, Raphael says: “This drawing is of the planets because I think space is amazing, I always like looking up at the sky at night to see the stars.” What Raphael would like to see change in the world: “What I would like to see in the world is for people not to die of Coronavirus. This makes me feel very sad.”

Raphael Bouquet: “What I would like to see in the world is for people not to die of Coronavirus. This makes me feel very sad.”

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Quincy Nelson-Watson (3)

Post author By Ninette Murk
Post date 20/12/2020

Quincy’s drawing is of his birthday party, playing with balloons and eating cake.
What Quincy thinks is beautiful: “My garden and playing hide & seek with my sister.”

Quincy Nelson-Watson: “I love my garden and playing hide & seek with my sister.”

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Acacia Nelson-Watson (6)

Post author By Ninette Murk
Post date 20/12/2020

About her illustration, Acacia says says: “This drawing is of my family on my birthday and hanging a pinata from the tree.”
What she thinks is beautiful: “Family, friends, laughing, fun and nature.”
What Acacia would like to see change in the world: “I want Coronavirus to go away. I want to see my aunty and cousins feel safe when they come from Belgium and see me in England.”

Acacia Nelson- Watson: ” I love my family, friends, laughing, fun and nature.”

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Bea Bouquet (11)

Post author By Ninette Murk
Post date 20/12/2020

My idea of beauty is being by the sea. My Mummy asked me where I wanted to go for a short break in Belgium and I said anywhere as long as it is near water. I love to be near water whether it is the sea, a river or a lake. That is my idea of beauty. I feel relaxed then.
My hope for the future is that people will start caring more about the planet we live on. I want people to care about young people like me having a future. I want to be like Greta Thunberg. She’s not bothered about being popular, she just wants to save the world.

Quote: “I want to be like Greta Thunberg. She’s not bothered about being popular, she just wants to save the world.”

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Khalid Biladi

Post author By Ninette Murk
Post date 16/12/2020

Khalid Biladi: “This African woman represents pure beauty to me and a ‘no’ to racism.”

IG: @khalidbiladiart

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Volker Stox

Post author By Ninette Murk
Post date 02/12/2020

Volker about his work: ” I work in digital media using a computer to make my images sometimes crossing over and back to traditional painting. To me it is always an adventure to create a beautiful thing from nothing. The element of surprise plays a big part in the process. Just like in traditional painting, it is good to let things happen; even though I have used this electronic medium for many years I still don’t understand it and, inherently, there are always ‘accidents’ which make in image work.”
About real beauty: “Beauty is, of course in the eye of the beholder, and we, as artists, are only ‘facilitators’ and, as has been said, the smallest part of the process of bringing BEAUTY to existence.”

Title: Parallel Universe 3

Website: http://volkerstox.co.uk

IG: volkerstoxart

Volker Stox: “Beauty is, of course in the eye of the beholder, and we, as artists, are only facilitators and the smallest part of the process of bringing BEAUTY to existence.”

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Mariët Hylkema

Post author By Ninette Murk
Post date 02/12/2020

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Tamsin Spencer Smith

Post author By Ninette Murk
Post date 02/12/2020

Fugitive Color
Sequestered I gather
The visible objects and angles
Of my days as they turn voiceless
Corners grow in drama and I make peace
With vagaries like a thin supply of lake pigment
The kind known to fade or go dark with time
I paint twilight in the mornings and the red memory
Of flesh made anxious largely by my shy approach
On a good day I set about to reconstruct the wall of my living Room across a single sheet of cold pressed cotton
On the reverse side the spirit animal of my pepper tree
Dips her jasmine skirt to passiflora’s lavish mop and arching antlers
In truth alone again I soldier on with a still life ripe and raw
Plum, clay cup, an empty wine bottle’s full-throated embrace
Of flamed admission & I vow to play in this moment
Songs of radical tempo shift and going all the way
The path walks with her wanderer scattering cinnamon
Our landscape grows thick with scarlet leafwing
A father’s ghost throws a net to his barefoot child
But her hands are full with firefly
Forest echo / Alizarin crimson
—
Tamsin Spencer Smith, 2020

Title: Ninette’s Garden

Tamsin Spencer-Smith: “In truth alone again I soldier on with a still life ripe and raw”

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Bas Kosters

Post author By Ninette Murk
Post date 02/12/2020

“Beauty to me is in the unexpected, in innocence and naivety, something small, something different. Gladly we can be beautiful in so many more ways we could imagine ourselves trough the eyes of others”

Title: Ugly

Website: https://baskosters.com/