Glasgow-based British hyperrealist artist Paul Cadden creates photographic images from pencil and nothing more. See all his work at his Deviant Art portfolio.

In the meantime you can get your Geddes fix via the February edition of Juxtapoz magazine featuring an interview with the artist here.

Miina Äkkijyrkkä is a Finnish sculptor based in Helsinki with a real talent for making scrap metal sculpture and in particular her giant “car cows”. She’s won a state prize for a work and continues to this day sculpting scrap as well as more traditional bronze pieces.

Until 1991 American artist Marlene Carroll Couri was a major player in the fashion industry, staging and choreographing major catwalk events across NY and throughout the USA. After discovering a buzz for painting she’s become the queen of “shine”. Couri’s work looks like something from a toy shop window. The ceramic glazed look to Couri’s paintings really hits home, especially when historical icons like Martin Luther King and Abraham Lincoln get the treatment.

As soon as Sam Spratt graduated in 2010 he became the (first) in-house staff illustrator for popular media conglomerate Gawker. Since then he’s moved from strength to strength applying his expert oil painting techniques in digital format for clients like Kanye, Katy Perry and Lady Gaga His abstractions of form, colour and even to some extent “inner personality” are fascinating. Especially his portrait of the late Amy Winehouse and his latest work, a self portrait.

MTV’s Pop Culture has just published a fascinating interview with the artist describing some of his celebrity clients’ reactions to his work here.

See more of Yanni Floros’ work at www.yannifloros.com and/or read the (very long) interview @ Lemonade Mag.