Artist Christina Hess Imagines Cats As Famous Historical Figures
Christina illustrates from her orange sherbet painted studio in south Philadelphia. Her work has been featured in numerous magazines and books including her first children’s book “The Nutcracker” due for release in the Fall of 2016.
Here: Marie Antoinippe. Meet Marie Antoinippe. Strolling in her catnip garden she’s ready to hang on your wall to remind you that every cat should be treated like a princess. Continue reading »
Murals Of Faceless Figures By Seth Appear To Witness The Unseen
French muralist Julien Malland (aka Seth – previously) has been extremely prolific over the last year, traveling to far flung locations around the world including China, Tahiti, New Zealand, Italy, Canada, and even the Reunion Islands in just the last few months alone. Seth paints large-scale human figures—mostly children—that appear faceless, cut off by the edges of buildings or turned completely away from the viewer, as if looking out into the world or witnessing something we cannot see. Continue reading »
This Artist Creates Beautiful Figures Of Olympic Athletes Out Of Layered Paper
According to the Spanish artist Raya Sader Bujana: “The concept of this design was to express movement using paper. The added texture, light and volume that the serial planes technique provides reinforces the fluidity of the pieces. All the sculptures are entirely hand cut and assembled, some of the figures have around 150 pieces and up to 500 separators. The project required many, many hours of work, but the end result was very satisfying for me.” Continue reading »
Impressive Carved Wood And Bone Figures By Andrey Sagalov
Belarusian sculptor from Minsk Andrey Sagalov masterfully carves absolutely great portraits and figures from wood, bone, and ivory. Continue reading »
This Epic Lamp Made From Cheap Action Figures Will Delight Your Nerd Senses
So this next DIY idea will blow every comic book fan’s mind away. It a super cool action figure lamp, that you can make at home for yourself or as a gift for a real action hero enthusiast. It will be such a great and eclectic piece of decor foe any room and making it is much easier than you would think. Now’s the time to dig out all your childhood action star figures and recycle them for a greater good. The basic idea behind this lamp is to glue the action figures together, spray paint them and attach the whole composition to a lamp. Then just find the right spot for this cool lamp or the nicest wrapping paper and you have an awesome and recycled gift. Continue reading »
Historical Figures Hilariously Share Their Instagram Photos
So we stumbled across, Histagrams a satirical blog dedicated to documenting the history of the world entirely on Instagram. Imagine an alternative universe whereby the likes of Cleopatra, Abraham Lincoln, Marilyn Monroe, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi or Steve Jobs all had an Instagram account. What would they take photos of? What username would they pick? And more importantly which filters if any would they use? These are the important questions in life, but thanks to the wit and creativity of Histagrams, we’re able to give you an insight into what their Instagrammifications might have been like. Continue reading »
Realistic Wheat-Pasted Figures Playfully Interact with Parisian Streets
Artist Charles Leval, aka Levalet, continues to delight us with his wheat-pasted characters that cleverly interact with their surroundings. Using the streets of Paris as his playground, Levalet installs the realistically-rendered, life-sized figures on tattered buildings and boarded-up windows, sometimes combining his giant drawings with ornate fountains to create the illusion that these architectural elements have suddenly sprung to life. Continue reading »
Elegant Figures and Faces of Dancers Emerge from Intricately Folded Sheets of Fabric
The latest installation by Benjamin Shine, who studied fashion design at The Surrey Institute of Art and Design and Central St Martins in London – “The Dance” explores ideas of impermanence and the fleeting moment, which are conveyed through the inherent qualities of delicate tulle material. Continue reading »
Artist Alexey Kondakov Imagines Figures from Classical Paintings as Part of Contemporary Life
For his ongoing series “Art History in Contemporary Life,” Ukrainian artist Alexey Kondakov takes scenes and figures lifted from classical paintings and drops them into modern-day life. Bouguereau’s ‘Song of the Angels’ appears to take place on an empty subway car while a pair of men from Holbein’s famous ‘The Ambassadors’ are transported to the table of a seedy bar. Continue reading »
Historical Figures’ Letterheads
“Letters have changed the world, from Churchill’s letters to Roosevelt during World War II to Martin Luther King’s letter from Birmingham jail. Here at MOO, we wondered how those letters would have looked today.
To reimagine how iconic figures could have branded themselves in the modern world, our creative team have designed unique Letterheads and Business Cards for some of the most famous letter writers in history, capturing each identity in a set of stationery.” Continue reading »
Fresh’n’Friends: Fruit Figures
Advertising campaign by Scholz & Friends for the organic supermarket chain Fresh`N´Friends to attract kids and their parents to buy fresh and organic food. Continue reading »
Placing Modern Figures in an Ancient Church
Sean Henry‘s sculpture Man with Cup (2008) is exhibited on the West Front of Salisbury Cathedral on August 2, 2011 in Salisbury, United Kingdom. The exhibition, ‘Conflux: A Union of the Sacred and the Anonymous’, features over 20 contemporary sculptures of dramatically different scales occupying vacant plinths and open spaces on both the inside and exterior of the iconic 13th century building. This exhibition brings to the Cathedral the biggest single group of polychrome sculpture since the Reformation and runs until the end of October. (Matt Cardy / Getty Images) Continue reading »
