Ball Point Pen Paintings by Shane MCAdams
Shane McAdams creates beautiful ghostly multi-toned image that forces the viewers to question what is artificial and what is organic.
His work push the boundaries of ballpoint pen ink through dueling relationships between natural and synthetic forms. Read More…
3D Chalk, Terracotta Lego Army
An amazing piece of street art (inspired by the Terracotta Army of Qin Shi Huang, the first emperor of China) has brought the Lego figures terracotta army to life. The ’3D’ child-friendly version of the life-sized terracotta legion was drawn in chalk on a flat street, giving the impression the Lego figures have been unearthed from the middle of the road.
The 3D street painting has been made by Leon Keer, Ruben Poncia, Remko van Schaik and Peter Westerink duing the 4th Sarasota Chalkfestival in Forida US.
Dead Flies Art by Flychelangelo
Flychelangelo is very humorous and creative artist- not to mention . The humor in the photos is very similar in style to the Far Side cartoon strip. Collecting the small insects, presumably after their death, they’ve been assembled to show you the every day life of a housefly, like you’ve never seen them before.
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Light Painting Photography by Brian Hart
Brian Hart creates amazingly using light beyond its practicality, hart sets up living scenarios for which he applies the photographic technique,
capturing domestic and whimsical scenes., sometimes spending nearly 20 minutes exposing a single one.
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3D Painting by Aka Shaka
Aka Shaka (Marchal Mithouard) is a talented French artist who does incredible three-dimensional paintings that really pop-out. His unique way of attaching objects to the painting encourages the illusion that individuals are coming to life of the canvas. Mithouard draws influences from a variety of artistic styles such as painting, sculptures, serigraph, photography and tattooing. These are a series of works on canvas is displayed at Galeries 208 in Paris. Read More…
Eternal Flame by T-Radya
The Russian street artist T-radya has created these impressive portraits of fallen Russian WWII soldiers. The faces of bandages on chipboards were burned by throwing the bottles on them.
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Disney Selects Noah as Official Artist of D23 Expo
As part of this year’s D23 Expo, Noah was chosen by Disney Consumer Products to create the iconic graphic celebrating this year’s themes. This illuminating video shows the master at work on the classic Disney inspired painting featuring a realistic portrait of Walt and a ‘toony Sorcerer Mickey causing lots of colorful trouble.
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‘A Wheatfield, with Cypresses’, Brought to Life Through a Living Wall at the National Gallery
For the first time ever, a painting is being made into a ‘living wall’ outside the National Gallery. With over 8,000 living plants, General Electric (GE) has brought a masterpiece to life with a version of Van Gogh’s famous painting A Wheatfield, with Cypresses as part of the Gallery’s carbon plan. Over 8,000 plants have been planted on hoarding outside the National Gallery to recreate Van Gogh’s A Wheatfield, with Cypresses.
The painting has been brought to life by GE (General Electric) as part of the Gallery’s carbon plan. More than 25 varieties of plant have been used to mimic the strong bands of colour in the original picture.
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Street Artist – Aakash Nihalani
Inspired by New York City’s “unexpected contours” and “elegant geometry,” street artist Aakash Nihalani uses brightly-colored sticker tape to highlight unlikely urban beauty in his work.
“For however briefly, I am trying to offer people a chance to step into a different New York than they are used to seeing, and in turn, momentarily escape from routine schedules and lives,” he explains. “We all need the opportunity to see the city more playfully, as a world dominated by the interplay of very basic color and shape.”
Hush “Twin” Opening at New Image Art
Hush returns to Los Angeles with a new collection of work reflecting his unique blend of street and cross-cultural aesthetics. Playing primarily with the idea of duality, the exhibition is a carefully calibrated experience of Twin paintings—15 mixed-media woks on canvas. Using the symbolic subject matter of the female form, Hush has produced a large-scale installation in which the gallery walls capture the essence of “action painting” and “pure expressionism” along with traditional elements of fine art.
Tony Orrico’s Drawing Performance
Tony Orrico is an artist and dancer who has been called the human spirograph, performing for up to 4 hours continuously. Tony Orrico takes this concept to the next level by using his entire body in the drawing process.
Orrico says:
“I marvel at the composition of nature and cycles. I am not versed in the convergence of art and mathematics or sciences, but find myself instinctually attracted to this relationship. I try to dilute my efforts and find an experiential point of entrance. I like to experiment with both embodied and cognitive systems that yield beauty. my favorite art is somewhat accidental and overwhelmingly concise.”
Anamorphic Illusions by Felice Varini
Felice Varini is a Swiss artist who is known for his geometric Anamorphic Illusions. Anamorphic Illusions are images which only make sense from one view and can only be truely appreciated from a certain vantage point. His pieces range in scale from covering a small area in a room to covering a cityscape.
Varini tends to use simple geometric forms: squares, triangles, ellipses, circles, rectangles, and lines. These forms are usually created in one of the three primary colors: red, blue or yellow, occasionally employing some secondary colors, as well as in black and white. He justifies his choice of simple geometric shapes and basic colors by saying “If you draw a circle on a flat canvas it will always look the same. The drawn circle will retain the flatness of the canvas. This kind of working is very limiting to me, so I project a circle onto spaces, onto walls or mountain sides, and then the circle’s shape is altered naturally because the ‘canvas’ is not flat. A mountain side has curves that affect the circle, and change the circle’s geometry. So, I do not need to portray complicated forms in my paintings. I can just use the simplicity of forms, because the reality out there distorts forms in any case, and creates variations on its own accord.
Lang Baumann Paints the Streets of Vercorin
The streets of Vercorin, a small ski town in Switzerland, were painted by design legends Lang Baumann. The painted streets were intended to be a powerful juxtaposition against the old world feel of the charming town.
Hand-Painted Kathe Fraga’s French Wallpaper Series
Kathe Fraga’s French Wallpaper series are inspired by the mesmerizing motifs found on hand-painted walls inside grand old Parisian mansions. In addition to wallpapers and coverings, Fraga also draws inspiration from the patterns found on vintage kimonos, hand-worked embroidery, and hand-blocked wall panels.Each piece resembles an aged decorative fresco panel adorned with birds and flowers, vines and leaves in a modern Chinoiserie style.
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Floppy Disk Paintings by Nick Gentry
Artist and Central Saint Martins graduate Nick Gentry creates recycled art with obsolete media storage as his medium. After assembling canvases by puzzling together floppy disks with all kinds of different data, he paints portraits of over them.
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David Hockney Embraces the iPad
Not content with pushing the boundaries of conventional art in the 60s, David Hockney is doing much the same in 2010, creating ‘digi-art’ on the Apple iPad.He’s not just doodling around casually with the painting application. The 73-year-old British painter, stage designer, and photographer has used it, along with other drawing apps, to create hundreds of vibrant landscapes, self-portraits, still lifes, and florals.
The title comes from one of Hockney’s favourite sayings from the first half of last year. “I draw flowers every day on my iPhone,” he told me then, “and send them to my friends, so they get fresh flowers every morning. And my flowers last. Not only can I draw them as if in a little sketchbook, I can also then send them to 15 or 20 people who then get them that morning when they wake up.”
The novelty of what he has been doing is two-fold. Firstly, this is a new medium with fresh possibilities, requiring unorthodox techniques.
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Illusions Installations by Nils Nova
Nils Nova’s installations are designed to subvert our perception of time and our assumptions about space. In his projects he mixes techniques like ink-jet prints on blue back-paper pasted on the wall, paintings on boards, photography, everyday objects or people.
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Kazuki Takamatsu’s Paintings
These paintings by Kazuki Takamatsu are just stunning. He is a Japanese artist whose world is coming out of a fairy tale. Kazuki Takamatsu mixes traditional and modern techniques. From one hand he uses gouache, hand painted monochromed based objects whilst from the other hand he uses “Depth Map” a technique where every pixel on the object is a shade of gray that is proportional to its distance from the object looking at it. The match of these two techniques give a real sense of surrealism and astonishing depth.
