Who are your favorite artists?

Rather than go on a great long tangent about multiple artists that I would consider favorites, I’ll just stick with one because I find their style fun and unique.

If old-school/retro pixel style art is something you enjoy, then I highly recommend checking out Luiza Niechoda.

While not strictly “pixels”, the idea is there. Per their About page:

“Now my work is a mix of sharp lines and haziness, balancing between realism and hard-edged geometric abstraction. There is no digital process involved. Everything is made with paint, on canvas.”

For starters, green is my favorite color, and most of their works are in shades of green or accented with greens. Aside from that, what really draws me to their work is how a lot of it looks like you’re observing a pixelized world made real, or through some kind of magical pixel portal into a different reality. It’s like a combination of my love for digital media (video games) and science fiction/fantasy. The edges of reality, instead of going fuzzy and blurring, are made of hard edged lines that overlap in a way that might look almost like a whicker basket, but because of the colors it comes across like pixels. It’s almost mesmerizing!

I’ve purchased a print copy of one of their pieces, but someday I hope to be able to acquire an original piece. Although, I’d like to have a home to put it in first.