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 »
Canadian Artist Creates Miniature Dioramas In An Old Vintage Ring Boxes
Canadian artist Talws creates miniature dioramas in old vintage ring boxes. The canvas is quite limiting, but that’s doesn’t stop Talwst, who has transformed the tiny boxes into variety of scenes. Some reference pop-culture, other history, and some are just artist’s memories made manifest. Continue reading »
For 32 Years, Artist Took Photos Of The Same Couples To Show The Effects Of Time
When Swiss photographer Barbara Davatz met Kurt and Nicola back in 1982, the young couple caught her eye for their uncanny resemblance. Both with blond hair in crew cuts and head to toe dressed in black, they seemed like intriguing subjects for a photo shoot. Continue reading »
Russian Artist Turns Boring Soviet Apartment Building Walls Into Art
How can one fight the greyness and blandness of everyday life? With mad painting skills, apparently. Boris Chernichenko, who comes from the Russian city of Astrakhan, smote banality by decorating the stairwell in his apartment building. No more plain, white-ish walls – they’re now decorated with murals of natural landscapes. 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 »
An Artist Has Created A Brilliantly Detailed Manhattan Desk That Glow In The Dark
“It has been a dream for me to create a replica of Manhattan since I was in design school (although it is not really the whole Manhattan, since I have to decide where to stop or the desk would be too big to build)”, explains Troy Huang on Bored Panda. Continue reading »
An Artist Has Created A Glass Sculpture With Detailed Paintings That Can Only Be Seen From Close Up
The stained glass sculpture is primarily inspired by the idea of a giant floating fluorescent amoeba. By combining and abstracting visually significant characteristics also of other living forms the art piece points to the fascination about life as a phenomenon that is difficult to grasp. Since the sculpture shines, it arouses curiosity from great distance, only by getting closer to the piece its detailed painted patterns can be spotted. 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 Artist Creates A Ceramics Imprinted With Patterns Of Vintage Typewriter Letters
Ceramic artist Laura C. Hewitt creates a wide range of cups, plates, and other ceramic objects imprinted with letters and numbers from old typewriter keys. The Alaska-based artist utilizes fragments from mathematical formulas, programming languages, and other science-influenced designs, all carefully applied with a variety of typewriter letters in black ink to create one-of-a-kind pieces. Continue reading »
Makeup Artist Turns Herself Into Creepy Monsters That’ll Give You Nightmares
Andrea De La Ossa, a cosmetologist and beauty vlogger, definitely doesn’t have problems choosing her Halloween looks. Using her incredible make-up skills, she can turn herself into any creepy character she wants. Continue reading »
This Artist Channels His Love Of Comics Into The Most Beautiful Illustrations For Dark
Hector Trunnec has been able to turn his love of drawing into his career, but he hasn’t let that stop him from creating beautiful fan art for his own pleasure and displaying it online. Trunnec hails from Valencia, Spain and does draw comic books professionally, but posts these fan art illustrations of his favorite comic, film, cartoons and celebrity portraits online. Continue reading »
This Artist Turns People Into Aliens By Drawing Faces On Their Backs
Spanish artist AnaHell creates some of the creepiest caricatures from human bodies. By using a few simple props and costumes the artist reveals a whole new insight to the human form. These works of art are made even more impressive by her simplicity in lighting and use of everyday settings and poses to bring out the whimsical side of her otherworldly creations. When you see her work you understand her proclaimed childlike fascination for the human body, and the absurd. Continue reading »
This Artist Creates A Cute Animal Wallets
Handmade leather carry goods for those who travel lightly, live simply, and beautifully. Continue reading »
An Artist Turned Biggest Retail Brands’ Bags Into A Chairs
Just in time for Black Friday, contemporary artist Simon Freund has created an artwork criticising today’s consumer culture and our common desire to buy stuff we don’t really need. The piece is made up of six chairs, each of which is made from a different brand’s shopping bags. Aldi, COS, Supreme, Primark, Acne Studios, and Wood Wood bags all feature in the piece, which is not for sale. Continue reading »
An Artist’s Rendition Of A Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle Sneaker
Footwear design has come a long way in recent years with lightweight designs, innovative fabrics, and builds that balance comfort with agility. In an exercise in design, artists Hussain Almossawi and Quintin Williams reveal their sneaker concept that fits the Ninja Turtles, with space for their two large fingers, breathable perforation, and an ergonomic shape. The look is finished with a ribbon that draws its influence from those worn around their eyes. Continue reading »
Living With A Rare Disease And Chronic Pain, This Artist Found Joy In Creating Beautiful Art
Artist Beau Bernier Frank suffered from chronic pain for several years that was recently attributed to an autoimmune disease called Ankylosing Spondylitis. The disease caused such severe pain and inflammation within Frank’s joints that he had to quit his job. Stuck at home for five months, Frank found himself in a dark tunnel of purposeless pain. As a means of coping with the unfortunate realities of his situation, Frank turned to the things he loved most about life — art and world travel. Continue reading »
Thsi Artist Projects A Digital Street Art Safari Across Orlando Architecture
Following the wild popularity of his ‘urban safari’ in Paris, french artist Julien Nonnon continues the series the other side of the Atlantic, bringing digital street art to sunny Florida. During two nights in November, Nonnon projected new characters and creatures around downtown Orlando, allowing the collection of smartly-dressed figures to interact with the urban landscape, the architecture of the city and the night light. Continue reading »
This Artist Created The Most Unreal Pokémon Fan Art
Swedish artist Lisa-Marie Melin began posting her incredible fan art online to become an online sensation by blowing away Pokémon lovers around the globe. Her colorful style and original spin on classic Pokémon characters will have geeks looking at their favorite characters in a brand new way. Continue reading »
Digital Artist Remixes Famous Faces To Create Seamless Celebrity Hybrids
What began as a playful premise in 2002 has developed into an internet sensation for digital artist @gesichtermix, who remixes some of the world’s most famous faces into hybrid celebrity portraits. The digital artist seamlessly brings together two photographs of different actors, singers and political figures, and merges them into a single composite being. Continue reading »
Chinese Artist Paints Rock And Roll Stars As Deities In “Revels Of The Rock Gods”
Beijing based artist DU Kun incorporates his passion for rock music into his new oil painting series titled “Revels of the Rock Gods”. His works, which just debuted at Mizuma Gallery in Tokyo, Japan, are monumental portraits of rock musicians that appear carved out of mountains, cliffs, oceans, stones, trees and waterfalls. Continue reading »
This Artist Combines Human And Animal Features Into A Single Self-Portrait
Forming a likeness between the animal kingdom and the human form, hungarian artist Flora Borsi has formed the series ‘animeyed’, which creates curious hybrid beings from two different species. The collection of self-portraits sees Borsi situated side-by-side six separate creatures: a cat, dove, blowfish, goldfish, snake and hare. The effect forms hybrid entities that play with the perception of the viewer and cleverly display the physical similarities between the human and animal features. Continue reading »
Artist Creates Inspiring Typography On Landscapes
Don’t you just love quotes that still the mind? If so, you’ll enjoy this series by Julian Bialowas. This is a collection of inspiring snippets (that will make you think about life) set on beautiful photos of landscapes and mountains taken by Julian himself. Julian Bialowas is a Canadian freelance Designer & Photographer currently living in Calgary, Alberta. Creator of 365q and a co-creator of 16HOURS Magazine. Continue reading »
Artist Janet Echelman Installed A Voluminous Sculpture Floating Above The Streets Of London
More specifically, the temporary art installation was hung above Oxford Circus, one of the busiest areas in the city. Handmade from 77 miles of twine and half a million knots, the lightweight artwork changes its lights according to the local weather. Continue reading »
This Artist Designs A Bench Inspired By Glaciers And Natural Earth Formations
Brooklyn-based designer Fernando Mastrangelo, has designed this unique and sculptural bench as part of his “Drift” collection. Inspired by glaciers and natural earth formations, the designer used hand-dyed sand with cement to create the bench that represents different layers of earth. Continue reading »
This Artist Creates Dazzling Realistic Portraits Of Pictures In Pictures
Modern art sensation Tigran Tsitoghdzyan began painting at five years old and by ten years old, he already had an international exhibit that traveled to Spain, Russia, America, and Japan. After beginning his sensational career as a child prodigy in the art world, he has formed his own individual style that he dubs “hyperrealism”. He completed a degree in Fine Arts at ECAV in Switzerland and currently lives in New York City. Take a look at this list of paintings that showcase the world through the artistic gaze of this amazing artist on the rise! Continue reading »
