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Jacob van Ruisdael’s Wheat Fields captures a landscape from around 1670. I wanted to explore what happens when the painting is allowed to continue beyond the moment in which it was created.
The video begins with the original artwork. A storm gradually moves through the landscape, breaking the stillness of the painting and becoming a transition through time. As the sky clears, the same field appears in the present day. The composition, road, trees, fields, and atmosphere remain recognizable, while contemporary people now inhabit the scene.
Rather than replacing the original landscape, I wanted to preserve its visual identity and imagine its continuation. Centuries pass, people change, but the landscape remains - familiar, transformed, and still alive.
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Damask Daydream grew out of my love for the soft pink of old parlours, which is why most of the style is drawn from pale damask, embroidered silk and gilded chairs dressed in striped fabric. In those rooms pink was the color of private luxury and quiet romance, and I wanted that same warmth to carry through every page of the series.
On its own that pink could easily feel like decoration, so I paired it with a romantic sunset landscape and a naive jungle painting that bring in glowing skies, oversized leaves and a gentle sense of strangeness. Those two paintings are what tip the style into pop surrealism, as though the parlour had drifted off to sleep and begun to dream.
The series imagines the pages of a fashion art book that was never published, a collection of editorial covers shot inside that dream. Real models with natural faces share each frame with giant blooms, enormous fruit and objects that grow in impossible ways, turning every image into a botanical surrealist spread where the colors and textures of the past quietly shape a very modern world.
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Project Title: Surreal World 🌀✨
Description: Hey everyone! Here is my submission for the Recraft Challenge — a poster series called "Surreal World"! 🎨
For this project, I dove deep into the Public Domain Image Archive and gathered vintage 18th and 19th-century illustrations from various talented artists of that era — think old-school book engravings, scientific botanical plates, and classical etchings.
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I wanted to give these historical artworks a fresh, weird, and fun twist by mixing them with modern surrealism, bold colors, and psychedelic vibes. With Recraft, I blended classic cross-hatching textures and aged paper looks with funky symbols, neon contrasts, and dreamlike patterns.
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Hope you enjoy this little trip where history meets surreal imagination! Let me know what you think! 👇✨
i love these!
54 Shades of Whimsy 🃏♠️
What if a simple deck of playing cards could feel like a little piece of art history?
That thought became the starting point for 54 Shades of Whimsy - a playing card collection inspired by the elegance of Art Nouveau, vintage illustrations, ornamental patterns, and the beauty of nature.
I wanted each card to feel like it belonged to the same little universe, yet carry its own personality. From delicate florals and colourful birds to royal characters, intricate details, and playful expressions, every card was an opportunity to explore a different shade of whimsy.
I spent time gathering inspiration from historical artworks, decorative motifs, and vintage illustrations, then brought those visual elements together to create a custom style in Recraft. The goal was to keep the collection cohesive while allowing every card to tell its own story.
Soft colours, aged paper textures, ornamental borders, and hand-painted details became the visual language of this deck.
And that's how 54 Shades of Whimsy came to life - a little world where every card has a character, every detail has a story, and even a game of cards can feel magical.
