We live in a time, right here right now, where many things are called beautiful. The state of modern art is in such a broad, diverse place right now that basically everything goes. We are still reacting off of Pop though, so more often than not the objects you’ll see in a gallery are derivative of something found. For example, artist mister Richard Prince whose photographs of cowboys were (and are) lifted directly from cigarette ads. But this work right here in this post, it’s all new. Designer / artist Jacob Lysgaard not only drew the feathery headdress in this image, he took the photograph of the boy wearing it.

It’s a new world, right here, and it’s screenprinted.

The image above is called “Indianer” and it’s all new, all born of the mind of Lysgaard. Once the boy was photographed, the image was manipulated in a way that allowed it to be one, single color (some form of half-toneing was used). From there, the feathers were drawn in layers, and everything was burned to screens and printed to paper in a limited edition.

Some words from Lysgaard:

This art print is the next incarna­tion in my ongoing series on juxta­posing portrait photography and illustration. The last piece in this series, as you might guess, was the one with the viking kosmonaut*. The boy is my little brother Mons, who were so kind to spend an after noon chilling out in the photo studio.

The Viking Kosmonaut is also included in the gallery below. Look at how cute! Below you’ll find the print, closeup shots, and a mini making-of collection, then below that there’s some images of the Kosmonaut. Superlovely scrumtricuteness.

This post is part of the World Famous Design Junkies screenprinting category.