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Gritty Urban Street Illustrations (UPDATE)

Artist Robert Mearns Draws Portraits with a Twist

— July 8, 2011 — Art & Design
Vancouver born and based artist Robert Mearns has developed a trademark aesthetic for that sees him slightly alter the traditional format of portraits.

As an artist, Robert Mearns plays with the typical conventions of portraits by taking photographs of everyday Vancouverites from baristas to streetwalkers to burritomakers, and illustrating them with adding of color in otherwise monochrome portraits. The result is an eye-catching, hodgepodge portfolio of real people engaged in their most natural looks.

As an artist, Robert Mearns comes equipped with a ready-made ideology that influences his work. Thanks to the Internet, Mearns believes, "Youth culture is suddenly defined by the constant ability to pick and chose, putting pieces of past ethos together, creating a mismatched mash-up of ever-evolving cultural fragments," reads his artist statement. "These fads, opinions, and aesthetics are tossed away just as easily as they’re donned and absorbed, making the individuals that embody them creatures of constant flux."

As an artist, Robert Mearns has had his work exhibited over 25 times in his native Vancouver and he has been featured in publications like Factory Magazine, Art & Sole and Ion Magazine.
Trend Themes
1. Urban Portraiture - Disruptive innovation opportunity: Develop an AI that can create color portraits from monochrome pictures.
2. Youth Culture Mash-up - Disruptive innovation opportunity: Create a platform that curates constantly evolving cultural fragments, opinions, and aesthetics.
3. Realism with a Twist - Disruptive innovation opportunity: Develop a program that can add subtle changes to real-life photos that make them stand out in a unique way.
Industry Implications
1. Art and Design - Disruptive innovation opportunity: Introduce digital tools that make conventional portraits unique and captivating.
2. Social Media - Disruptive innovation opportunity: Develop a social media platform that encourages users to share and curate constantly evolving cultural fragments, opinions, and aesthetics.
3. Photography - Disruptive innovation opportunity: Introduce new software and tools that transforms photos into eye-catching art pieces.
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