John Salminen’s Watercolor Paintings Of Urban Landscapes
John Salminen is one of America’s most highly recognized watercolorists. He is a prolific painter who paints six to ten hours a day in a basement studio when he’s not out of town jurying exhibitions or teaching workshops. He captures his subjects – usually urban landscapes – with his camera and then paints them realistically with water color. Ranging from San Francisco to the Chicago Loop to Greenwich Village to rainy Paris to Shanghai, his subjects are consistently presented in dynamic compositions and his ability to set a mood with color, light and tone is unsurpassed. Continue reading »
Woman Uses Her Hijab To Turn Herself Into Disney Princesses, Fiction And Comic Characters
The Little Mermaid, Mulan, or even Jafar – Malaysian make up artist Saraswati can transform herself into any Disney character. The mother-of-two has not only mastered the art of face paint, she also creatively uses her hijabs to complete her looks. Continue reading »
“Before I Die, I Want To…”
Inspired by a famous “Before I die” art project, animator Angelo Valente and gerontologist Sofia Nunez decided to find out what people in their later years dream about. For this purpose, they went to The Community of Gafanha do Carmo centre, in Aveiro (Portugal) and asked the elderly men and women living there to continue the phrase “Before I die I want to …” Continue reading »
This Street Art Duo Show Their Concerns With Planet Earth
Staying true to their focal and ongoing analysis of the relationship between humankind and nature, NEVERCREW has illustrated their observations on walls and shipping containers in India, United States, and Europe. Concerned with climate change and the future of humanity, pieces like “Black Machine” and “Ablating Machine” depict whales and polar bears in artistic and thought-provoking ways. Continue reading »
Childhood Of Tomorrow: The Incredible Surreal Art Of Simon Stålenhag
It does not take many words to describe the art of Simon Stålenhag, Swedish artist whose works speaking for themselves. Landscapes of a future perfect straight out from the covers of the sci-fi volumes, modern machines but not too rarefied spaceships, space poetry. But even dinosaurs found, nature (almost) pristine, the firm search through a great color palette of a surreal but true… Continue reading »
Artist Takes 20 Different Drugs And Creates 20 Illustrations To Show Drug Effects
Graphic designer Brian Pollett, aka Pixel-Pusha, pusha-ed himself to the limit by doing a new drug every day for twenty days and making art. The San Francisco-based artist said he “wanted to create opportunities to educate, whether related to psychedelics or art.” Continue reading »
This Dino-Man Photoshops Himself Into Famous People’s Photos
Actor Lorenz Valentino, also known as Dino, has a unique approach to getting close to the stars, actors, singers and politicians he loves. Instead of elbowing through crowds or entering packed arenas to catch a distant glimpse of larger-than-life personalities, he cozies up to them personally through the magic of Photoshop, wearing a funny Dino costume. Continue reading »
Cartoon Characters As The Main Subject In Classic Masterpiece Paintings
It’s funny how two forms of art can provide such contrasting emotions. Think classic masterpieces – think dusty galleries and stiff audiences all mumbling out-loud about the intricacies of the artwork. Think cartoons – think fun, laughter, and zero analysis around how a huge ten tonne anvil can cause no more damage other than a hilarious bump on the head. Continue reading »
Poetic Black And White Watercolors Of Children With Wild Animals
Indonesian artist Elicia Elidanto creates delicate watercolor paintings which depict the intimate relashionship between children and animals. Her black and white watercolors show silhouettes of small children standing in front of majestic and dangerous creatures. Continue reading »
An Artist Has Completely Documented Her Two Years Of Travel By Painting In Moleskine Notebook
According to artist, Missy Dunaway: “For nine years I have painted in Moleskine journals with acrylic ink. Each page is a painting of a landscape or memory embellished with handwritten descriptions. I combined my two most recent journals into one book entitled ‘Standing in Asia’, ‘Looking at Europe’, ‘Thinking of New York’.” Continue reading »
10 Famous Movie Titles Written Using Negative Space
In a world already full of negativity, two junior advertisers have found some space in a personal project. As you would expect out of any personal work, Eduard Cîrstea and Luca Costea managed to find a pleasant subject they were both keen on: feature films. Starting from this, they let their imagination run loose. Continue reading »
This Photoshop Wizard Is Turning Random People’s Photos Into Movie Posters
2-year Reddit user Your_Post_As_A_Movie has a special power, and it’s not respooling VHS cassettes or making films about mail. No, over in /r/pics, this Redditor picks random posts and turns them into stunning movie posters, actor names, fine print, and all. Continue reading »
This is What Happens When Ordinary Women Try On Victoria’s Secret Swimsuits
Image: Victoria’s Secret
Buzzfeed writers decided to re-create a Victoria’s Secret photo shoot on a beautiful beach in Malibu. They each chose a model and attempted to replicate her pose — with interesting results. Continue reading »
This Girl Has Insane Know-How In Body Painting!
Kay Pike is an artist who makes amazing body paint cosplay. We’ve never seen anything better than this. Continue reading »
Lingerie Models Replaced Mascots During A Football Match
A Dutch football team replaced their mascots with lingerie models for their Valentine’s Day match. Well, the look on those guys’ faces says it all. Continue reading »
Artist Illustrates What It’s Really Like To Be In A Long Distance Relationship
Viola Wang has been in a long distance relationship with her boyfriend for three years. Having experienced all there is to experience when dating someone who lives thousands of miles away, she decided to capture what it’s really like via these sweet illustrations. Continue reading »
Loving Husband Spends 2 Years Planting Thousands Of Flowers For His Blind Wife To Smell
Mr. and Mrs. Kuroki lived a happy life as dairy farmers in rural Japan, raising two lovely children. But tragedy struck when Mrs. Kuroki suddenly lost her sight due to complications from diabetes. Soon, she became depressed and withdrawn, secluding herself in the family home. Continue reading »
18 Clever Digital Images Which Keep You Guessing
There is no need to put too many words on paper to write a crucial message. Elite advertising campaigns tend to provide a lot of value with just one simple phrase. This is what Manipula Art, a Brazilian creative production agency, does with its multi-disciplinary philosophy. Continue reading »
Amazing Van Gogh Paintings Re-Created On Matchboxes By Salavat Fidai
Russian artist Salavat Fidai (previously) is obsessed with things in miniature, and he has previously painted miniatures on pumpkin seeds and carved sculptures into the graphite tips of pencils. For this project, he’s gone for something a little bit bigger, but not by much. One of Fidai’s favorite painters is the legendary Vincent Van Gogh, so he decided to do a series where he recreated some of Van Gogh’s famous works on matchboxes. Continue reading »
Artist Beautifully Illustrates What Happiness Is
According to artists: “These are images from our Happy Page on Facebook which currently has 2.5m fans. We’ve asked people around the world what makes them happy and illustrated over 7,000 submissions so far (and still going strong). So let us know what makes YOU happy and we’ll illustrate it and add it to the page.” Continue reading »
This Is What Disney Princesses Would Look Like If They Were Anime Characters
For many years Disney princesses and their strong personalities have been inspiring illustrators, photographers and artists who keep trying to re-imagine the cartoon beauties’ iconic looks. Today we’ll show you what Disney’s royal ladies would look like if they were anime characters, as drawn by a talented Pakistani artist, Maryam. Continue reading »
The Dark, Incredibly F*cked Up Comics Of Joan Cornellà
Spanish cartoonist Joan Cornellà combines black humor and extreme discomfort, most famously in his wordless, six-panel comics. Cornellà‘s work deals in mutilation and disfigurement, sadistic or oblivious violence, the alienation of modernity and a total disregard for human life. (I know. It doesn’t sound funny, but trust me.) Cornellà‘s aesthetic runs completely counterintuitive to his themes—his colors are lovely and soothing, and his human figures are glassy-eyed and friendly, as if they walked out of a children’s cartoon. Continue reading »
Star Wars Characters Reimagined As Winnie The Pooh And Friends
Florida based illustrator and artist James Hance just combined Star Wars with Winnie the Pooh. Titled “Wookie the Chew,” Hance’s illustrations reimagine Chewbacca as Pooh Bear and Eeyore as an Imperial Walker, along other crossovers. Continue reading »
Extremely Detailed Illustration Created With 7 Million Ink Dots!
Xavier Casalta, the France-based artist has made career out of creating highly-detailed illustrations of everything from food to calligraphic letters. Casalta’s latest piece, called Autumn, is a throwback to the bygone/upcoming season. Using a technique called stippling, the artist places several ink dots in various patterns to create lines, and textures until an exquisite illustration is formed. This one took 370 hours to create, with roughly seven million dots in all. Continue reading »
Love Is: Husband Spends 5+ Years Illustrating His Love For His Wife
South Korean artist Andrew Hou has spent almost 6 years trying to explain this feeling to his wife by drawing. It all began with cute drawings that he used to send to his significant one via SMS – he felt that it was easier to express feelings visually than verbally. Later, Andrew named his series “HJ-story” after his wife’s Korean name initials. At first, it was meant to be just a personal blog but, thanks to one of the artist’s friends, the word spread out and Andrew has gained many followers since. Continue reading »
