Layla Landscape Botanical Illustration Eukalyptus by Mantika

Botanical Illustration Eukalyptus by Mantika Studio

of which there are 12 - one for each month

Mikah by Tracie Andrews

I scraped the highlights off with a tiny craft knife

This is a graphite drawing of Turkish actor and DJ Seckin Ozdemir

Layla Landscape Botanical Illustration Eukalyptus by MantikaIn this new series of works I combine my experience as a photographer, my understanding of light, colour and texture, and my eye for discovering the unique. While these amazing new works may appear to have been created using paint or soft pastel, they are in fact close up photographs. These incredibly detailed images emerged from hours exploring the hulls of small boats on which naturally occurring patterns and textures form, some of which have