An Artist Transforms Everyday Items In These Amazing Paper Sculptures
The items you see every day might seem dull and mundane after a while, and certainly not conducive to creating art. Yet for Cybele Young, it’s the everyday things that provide inspiration for the fantastic. Continue reading »
This Artist Uses Leftover Coffee To Create Beautiful Artworks
Painting with coffee and creating other food-based art is all the rage right now. Occasionally, though, someone comes along and ups the ante a bit, pushing the trend even further. One such artist is Ghidaq al-Nizar, who creates magical little scenes using the remnants of his morning brew. Continue reading »
Artist’s Amazing Invention Offers Handicapped Children a Fun Way to Paint
From a young age, Dwayne Szot knew that he wanted to be a different kind of artist. “I knew growing up that I was never going to be this kind of art guy who put paintings on the wall in a museum,” Szot told The Huffington Post. “I wanted to be the kind of art guy who made something that was going to create social change – that was going to make a difference. And there’d be a usefulness to what I did as an artist.” Continue reading »
Ukraine-born Tattoo Artist Stanislava Pinchuk Inks Her Friends With Minimalist Tattoos For Food, Lessons Or Books
Stanislava Pinchuk (aka Miso), a Ukraine-born artist that works in Tokyo and Melbourne, practices an interesting sort of bartering economics – when she does her trademark minimalistic and meaningful tattoos for her friends, they pay with goods or favors, not money. Continue reading »
Controversial Chinese Artist and activist Ai Weiwei Showcases Bathroom Fixtures at Alcatraz Transformed into Porcelain Floral Bouquets
Controversial Chinese Artist and activist Ai Weiwei recently had an exhibition in Alcatraz, the notorious island used as a military fortress and federal penitentiary. Continue reading »
New York Artist Sculpts Sandcastles That Would Make M.C. Escher Proud
When it comes to sandcastle construction, most people focus on the basics — a motte, a bailey, maybe a keep and a moat. New York artist Calvin Seibert, on the other hand, has bigger ideas. Continue reading »
An Artist Created A Stunning Images Of Inglorious Fruits & Vegetables For French Supermarket Chain
This ad campaign for French supermarket chain Intermarché, created by Marcel Paris, takes a stand against food waste. Presented in an almost generic advertising case film, it still leaves us with a beautiful print series and a beautiful thought. Continue reading »
Artist Buys Billboard Advertising Time to Display Art Instead of Ads on Massachusetts Highways
Created as a set of billboards along two Massachusetts highways, “Healing Tool” is a temporary public art installation by artist Brian Kane produced to temporarily relieve stress and promote introspection during one’s monotonous daily commute. Continue reading »
Artist Creates Surreal Translucent Glass Sculptures Inspired By Cell Division
Jiyong Lee is an artist from Carbondale, Illinois. He has always been fascinated with cells and cell division, which gave him inspiration to create colorful geometric glass sculptures. Continue reading »
Talented Artist Melissa Cooke Creates Fantastic Hyper-Realistic Drawings
Melissa Cooke received her MFA from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Specializing in graphite on paper, her work investigates the relationship between photography, performance and drawing in portraiture. Cooke is represented by Koplin Del Rio in Los Angeles, California. Continue reading »
Artist Illustrates 12 Astrological Symbols Using Human Bodies As Her Canvas
According to artist Trina Merry: “From November 2014 to May 2015 I sculpted, body painted and photographed 60 models–including myself– into the 12 symbols of the zodiac.I view this work as my way to examine the impact of astrology in a current world in a modern aesthetic, while maintaining the sensibilities, skills and stories of crucial works of art from thousands of years before me. Continue reading »
Very Creative Artist From Brazil Bullies Banksy With These Humorous Parodies
Multi-talented Brazilian art director Butcher Billy strikes again with these humorous parodies of Banksy’s most iconic artworks. Continue reading »
What Has Been Seen… An Artist Created Absolutely Odd Surreal Portraits Of Deformed Faces
“Deformations” is a series of surreal portraits created by Madrid-based artist Lee Griggs. Continue reading »
A Street Artist Puts Cloud Prints On Buildings To Brighten City Streets
According to an artist Benjamin Løzninger: “I love street-art and the fact that one can discover art randomly out in the street. So after taking pictures OF the streets, I wanted to actually put the photos IN the streets and, this time, bring something uplifting to the people discovering the project. That’s how the { C/LOUD } project was born.” Continue reading »
An Artist Turned His Grief After Losing A Child Into Something Beautiful
According to designer Sander Bakker: “It is very difficult to grasp the extend of the devastation felt when your child dies. Trying to express it in words is almost impossible. After I was faced with this unthinkable loss earlier this year, I decided to do what I do the best instead: design.” Continue reading »
This Artist’s Photos of Mixed-Race Families Prove That Relationships Trump All Borders
“Mixed Blood” shows just some of many interracial families around the world. Unfortunately, there are still many societal factors that discourage ethnic, racial, and cultural mixing. These racist and xenophobic attitudes are still a cancer to society.
As mixing gradually goes mainstream, people have begun to identify and relate to the world and each other in different ways.
To document this mixing and the intersections of different cultures, Korean-American photographer CYJO spent three years between New York City and Beijing taking pictures of families. What came out of this exploration of race, culture and identity is an ongoing photo series called “Mixed Blood.”
Snodgrass Family, 2013. Citizenships: American, Chinese. Ancestries: German, Han Chinese, Irish. Languages: English, Mandarin. They live in Beijing. (All photos & captions © CYJO) Continue reading »
Artist Plays With People’s Minds By Illustrating Optical Illusions
Flying Mouse is a multi-award winning tee shirt designer from Malaysia. For Flying Mouse, a tee represents a blank canvas on which a story can be told. He believes that each of his designs has something to say and the people are certainly listening. Continue reading »
Elegant Greyscale Tattoos By Polish Tattoo Artist Kamil Czapiga
Polish tattoo artist Kamil Czapiga takes a different approach when it comes to tattoos. He actually creates stunning works of art in just black ink. Continue reading »
Artist John Bisbee’s Makes Of Sculptures With Only Nails – “Only Nails, Always Different.”
While in college, artist John Bisbee was scavenging in an abandoned house looking for items to incorporate into a series of found-object sculptures when he kicked over a bucket of old rusty nails. Continue reading »
An Artist Created A Stunning Mashup Portraits Of Superheroes And Girls
Sandra Chevrier is a Canadian artist born in 1983. As far as this artist can remember, art has always been present in her life. She reminds with special detail a specific work she saw by the Canadian artist Heidi Taillefer titled “Detritus of devotion”. This work transmitted so much to her that was then, at the early age of 14 years old, when she decided that she wanted to devote herself to transmit that emotion to others. Continue reading »
An Artist Created Stunning Body Paintings Glow Under Black Lights
Artist John Poppleton continues to utilize the human body as a canvas when painting stunning landscapes that glow under black lights. From summery African savannas to energetic lightning storms, the body painter has the ability to capture various mesmerizing scenes on the curves of the human physique. These radiant vistas are centered on a subject’s back, but branch off to include the arms, legs, and even head. Some Bodyscapes also feature more than one person, showcasing Poppleton’s skilled abilities and the human form’s great potential. Continue reading »
An Artist Created Mashups Between The Movie Posters And Classical Painting
According to Eisen Bernardo: “After my Mag+Art this is the latest addition in my +Art digital collage series. I was inspired by one of my followers’ request to combine movie posters and classical paintings. I tweaked the idea and used old and new Criterion covers instead. I love art house cinema, and I think this will be a good tribute.”
The Battle of Algiers by Gillo Pontecorvo + Creation of Adam by Michelangelo
Eisen is a multimedia producer and writer working at the Communication and Public Affairs unit of the ASEAN Centre for Biodiversity. His main task is to conceptualize, write, and design various information, education, and communication (IEC) materials. He also laid out publications and produced audiovisual materials for the University of the Philippines Los Baños and other local and international research organizations. He taught subjects in writing for print media, visual and graphics design, and layouting at the De La Salle University Canlubang. Continue reading »
The Daily Muse: Oliver Jeffers, Artist And Illustrator
From figurative painting and installation to illustration and picture-book making, Oliver Jeffers work takes many forms. His distinctive paintings have been exhibited in multiple cities, including the National Portrait Gallery in London, the Brooklyn Museum, Lazarides Gallery and Gestalten Space, Berlin. Continue reading »
Italy-based Artist Cristina Guggeri Shows World Leaders Pooping In New Series Of Images Called “The Daily Duty”
Given all the hefty decisions that today’s world leaders often have to grapple with on a daily basis, it can be easy to forget that they’re people too. Continue reading »
Lego Minifigure Tattoos by Polish Tattoo Artist Max Pniewski
These are portraits of people and animals, skulls, vampires, and a lot of Lego men. Talented Artist Max Pniewski gets a lot of tattoo requests from clients for Lego Minifigures of DC Comics superheroes and Star Wars characters. Some of the requests include portraits of people, animals, skulls, vampires, and as you may have guessed a lot of Lego men. Continue reading »
