One night while walking the streets of Porvoo, Finland with a camera in hand, photographer Mikko Lagerstedt captured the silhouette of a large cat off in the distance lit feintly from behind by a street lamp. Struck by the image, he conceived of a new series called Night Animals, where all kinds of wildlife would prowl the streets of this small Finnish town at night. As much as I want to tell you he raided the local zoo to liberate an ostrich, the images are all composites of two photos, an animal and backdrop, both shot by Lagerstedt.

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Contemporary painter Laura Krifka paints highly emotive, intensely vibrant fantasies, capturing a dynamic sense of audacity and repulsion. The California-based artist begins her process by creating sculptural models based on correct anatomy, configuring them to convey an ambiguous narrative within a light box, and then photographing the composition before painting her large-scale artworks. Each of Laura’s paintings contains an element of anxiety. Her characters are tinged with a poignant sense of longing, fear, pain, or rapture, and gaze off the pictorial plane, suggesting the viewer is capturing an intimate and present moment.

The artist, whose color schemes are inspired by MGM musicals from the 1950s, says with each new painting, she gives herself a new technical challenge. The recent Pink Predator (pictured above) is remarkable as it is the first of Laura’s paintings to engage the viewer through the confrontational gaze. Directly implicating the viewer as a fellow predator, it not only disturbs and challenges the viewer, but also surprises him with an element of superb beauty, depicted through large, swelling flowers.

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What does it look like when certain thing as delicate as a flower blows up into a million parts? Photographer Martin Klimas is behind this fascinating sequence called fast Bloom where he lets slip blossoms into fluid nitrogen and then fires them with an air gun from behind. Klimas liked to display the bloom, in its entirety, in one single shot, a flower in full bloom turned into a fascinating part of abstract art.

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Digital Art and truly incredible art are very wide and loosely-defined art genre. It is not restricted to a exact school of creative persons, geographical position or chronicled time span. It can be characterized by subject matter - which depicts non-realistic, mystical, mythical or folkloric topics or events - and method, which is representational and naturalistic, rather than abstract - or in the case of magazine illustrations and similar, in the style of graphic novel art such as manga. In this mail we have supplemented attractive Digital Art demonstrations for your inspiration.

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One thing I really like about the internet is the ability to stumble upon years-old gems. Angelica Ström is a Sweden-based photographer, or at least she was in 2011 when these images were originally posted. Captured anonymously from behind there’s a strong sense of angst youth and experimentation with light, setting and posture.

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