Women Paint “Stockings” on Their Legs at a Store in Croydon, London, 1941
Wallace Carothers produced the first nylon fiber in 1935, but it was the 1939 World’s Fair that first introduced the nylon stocking to the public. It was marketed as a fabric made from “carbon, water and air.“ Cheap and durable, better in appearance than silk, nylon soon became the material of choice for manufacturing women’s stockings. Continue reading »
The Beauty Ceremony of the Traditional Kosovar Wedding Face Painting
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A Kosovar Bosnian bride Sellma Demirovic has her face painted by Aziza Sefitagic on her wedding day for a traditional ceremony in the village of Donje Ljubinje, Kosovo. Continue reading »
A Cryptocurrency Entrepreneur Just Bought the World’s Largest Painting, by Artist Sacha Jafri, for a Whopping $62 Million
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Last fall, Sacha Jafri set a Guinness World Record for the world’s largest painting, titled The Journey of Humanity. Now, he’s sold it at auction for an equally large price: $62 million. The figure makes him the fourth-most expensive living artist—behind Jeff Koons, David Hockney, and digital artist Beeple. Continue reading »
Let’s Make Famous Russian Portraits Smile
Users of social networks decided to make famous works of Russian painters more positive and added white smiles to their portraits by means of a popular addition. Let us check out what they got. Continue reading »
Artist Creates Temporary 3D Paintings On Her Left Hand
According to Iantha Naicker: “I really enjoy creating 3D paintings on my left hand and filming the process. I use two types of watercolor pencils – Lyra, because it’s soft and light – Karat, because it’s a little harder and darker and creates depth. I mix them with water and acrylic colors. I will be taking a break from 3D paintings on my hand as I’m going to be focusing on other types of artwork.” Continue reading »
Taiwanese Artist Creates An Epic Blue Mountain-Scape, As A Result Of Hundreds Of Image Layers
The epic blue mountain-scape you see above is a composite of hundreds of image layers. But they weren’t made with Photoshop — or a digital camera, for that matter. Continue reading »
Black & Light: A New Immersive Painting Inside An Inflated Canvas
Japanese-Brazilian artist Oscar Oiwa has created a new immersive installation that just opened in NYC. Spending over 100 hours, Oiwa and his team transformed a blank inflated canvas into a world of swirling, black and white cosmos that visitors can step inside of and explore on their own. Continue reading »
Beetle Painted On Volkswagen: Pictures Of Gorgeous VW Bus Art Paintings
Volkswagen, maker of the Beetle automobile, expands its product offerings to include a microbus, which goes into production on March 8, 1950. Known officially as the Volkswagen Type 2 (the Beetle was the Type 1) or the Transporter, the bus was a favorite mode of transportation for hippies in the U.S. during the 1960s and became an icon of the American counterculture movement. Continue reading »
Sensual Female Portraits By The Russian Painter Andrei Markin
Andrei Markin, a Russian professional artist, was born in a village of Andreevka, Moscow region. He was grown up in a family of artists, his father Victor Markin is a painter as well. Andrei has been successfully graduated at a few Russian art schools and now he creates beautiful portraits, still-life paintings and landscapes. In this post, we collected Andrei’s best pictures of women for you. Continue reading »
These 8 Paintings Are Filled With Easter Eggs That Are Only Visible When You Zoom In
American artist Craig Alan is famous for creating pieces that are more than your average portrait. He creates unique depictions of pop-culture icons whose visage, at first glance, appears to be composed of tiny pixels. However, if you take a closer look, you will realize that they are made of dozens, sometimes hundreds of intricately painted exquisite figures. Continue reading »
Doug Madill: Painting Jersey City
“Painting Jersey City” offers a broad selection of new works from artist Doug Madill that focus primarily on the subject matter of day-to-day scenes within the environs of Jersey City, New Jersey. Encompassing street vistas, local landmarks, night scenes, and other recognizable haunts, the subject matter choices of painter Doug Madill are sourced primarily from his explorations of various Jersey City neighborhoods. These local perambulations are carried out on foot and when Madill finds a scene or object of interest in his travels, a painting is then executed on site, usually entirely “en plein air” which is a French term meaning “painted out of doors and from direct observation”. Continue reading »
Turkish Artist Turns Faceless And Boring Clothes Into Piece Of Art
According to an artist Daria Kurtulmus: “Hi everyone! My name is Daria I am an artist and I use clothes as a canvas. In the era of mass-market clothes and overpriced luxury brands t-shirts, there are not so much creativity rested in the fashion industry. Especially when we are talking about basic printed clothes like t-shirts, shirts, and sweaters. So I used fabric paints and basic clothes to show how clothing will look like if not a printing machine will print but an artist will paint. And not selling to the masses will be a priority but priority to create a unique exclusive piece of wear, full of originality and idea.” Continue reading »
This Artist Offers Piles Of Burgers To The Masterpieces Of Painting
With The Burger Friday, the artist Gabriel Nardelli Araujo (previously featured) offers a very offbeat spin-off to his excellent series The Canvas Project. Accustomed to inserting Renaissance paintings into our reality, he now enjoys offering piles of burgers and fries to the characters of classical painting, bringing a large dose of saturated fats and junk food to the masterpieces of the art history. Continue reading »
Mysterious Jupiter Up Close Looks Like A Van Gogh Painting
Juno is NASA’s current mission attempting to understand the origin and evolution of Jupiter. The spacecraft is equipped with a suite of science instruments including several high-tech cameras that have been transmitting incredible images back to Earth for processing and analysis.
See Jovian clouds in striking shades of blue in this new view taken by NASA’s Juno spacecraft.
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Close-up images of the gas giant are awe-striking and the patterns and colours have drawn comparisons to van Gogh’s iconic impressionist-style paintings. Below you will find 10 images from Jupiter taken by Juno that look like van Gogh himself could have painted. Continue reading »
These Autochrome Photos From The 1920s And ’30s Resulted An A Painting-Like Quality That Not Even Today’s Best Instagram Filters Can Replicate
The method used to make these dreamy photographs resulted in a painting-like quality that not even today’s best Instagram filters can replicate. Continue reading »
Spray Painting Multiple Layers Of Acrylic Glass
Street artist Sofles has gained international recognition for his incredible work with a spray can. In an ongoing series of works, Sofles spray paints multiple layers of acrylic glass. When viewed straight on it looks like a single canvas but a few steps in any direction and you get a sense for the multiple layers involved in each piece. Continue reading »
Signs Of Life: Surreal Light-Painting Photography By Eric Paré
With a camera remote in one hand and a light-tube in the other, it only takes one second for Canadian photographer Eric Paré to shoot his “light-painting” photographs. Over the years, Paré has traveled the world from Dubai to San Francisco snapping some truly incredible photographs along the way. With their colorful and kinetic lighting, the photos take on an ethereal quality. Continue reading »
On The Crossroads Of Souls: Dreamy Painting Of A Realistic Environment Concepts By Atey Ghailan
Atey Ghailan has worked in the industry as a concept artist and illustrator on several titles such as, Injustice: Gods Among Us, Project Spark, Pottermore, Legends of the Cryptids, Galaxy Saga, and Star Citizen. Whenever he is not painting or browsing the internet for art, he enjoys watching movies and anime, reading manga, and playing video games whenever time allows. In the future, Atey hopes to be able to run his own studio or art school. Continue reading »
Anonymous Hero Is ‘Protecting’ Graffiti Penises By Painting Condoms Over Them
An anonymous street artist is doing a noble service to the many graffiti penises of London – by spray-painting condoms on top of them. It’s pretty hilarious, but it also sends an important public health message which we’re sure even the original authors of the graffiti would be cool with.
Protect City Cocks, as the campaign is now known, started when an art director (whose name is undisclosed) noticed the shocking amount of unwanted penis drawings scattered across London’s walls. Continue reading »
Pop Culture Icons Invade Van Gogh’s ‘Starry Night’ Painting In Adorable Series
One accident inspired painter Aja Kusick to create a wonderful series that mashes up pop culture elements with expressive van Gogh’s style.
Snoopy and Charlie
Everything started when an education blog mistakenly shared Aja’s painting of the Eiffel Tower as Van Gogh’s. However, the Eiffel Tower was completed in 1889 and Van Gogh died in 1890, having spent his last years in the south of France, so it’s very unlikely that he even saw the iconic tower. Continue reading »
The Artist Who Put Kellyanne Conway In An Andrew Wyeth Painting
Illustrator and portrait painter Tim O’Brien has a knack for pop culture, often infusing it into artistic visions that simultaneously reveal its strangeness and familiarity. This week, he was inspired by the now infamous image of Kellyanne Conway casually sitting on an Oval Office couch during a February 27 meeting of leaders of historically black colleges. What he decided to do was create one of the best contributions to a viral meme. Above: Andrew Wyeth’s “Christina’s World” (1948), from the Museum of Modern Art’s collection. Continue reading »
Aerial Images Of Salterns That Blur The Line Between Photograph And Painting
Photographer David Burdeny, whose photo of a towering iceberg we featured last month, has been working on another large-scale photography project. Burdeny began the series SALT: Fields, Plottings and Extracts in 2015, using aerial photography to explore some of the world’s most vibrant salterns in Utah, Mexico, and Australia. Gazing upon the images it’s difficult to determine whether the expressive boxes of color are produced with a camera or paintbrush, or if the gestures were made by hand or nature. Continue reading »
Amazing Hand Painting Illusions By Ray Massey And Annie Ralli
London-based photographer Ray Massey teamed up with a talented body painter Annie Ralli to transform hands into architecture, sport scenes and other deceiving objects. These incredible hand illusions are a part of advertising campaign for Ecclesiastical Insurance, a niche insurance company using the byline “You’re in good hands”. Continue reading »
This Russian Fixed His Car Bump On A Most Genius Way Ever, By Painting
Well all go through that, we have a nice car that we love and then it happens… the dreaded accident! Your shiny metallic pet got it’s ugly bump and you are desperate. It’s exactly what happened to this Russian driver that was traveling through Altai region of Russia and a large truck bumped into his doors. However what happened next is what happens when you are a creative person. Continue reading »
Scientists Are Painting Eyes On Cows’ Butts To Stop Lions Getting Shot
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For more than 10,000 years, ever since man started herding cattle for food and enrichment in Africa, lions have been a huge problem. A lion, or, more likely, a pride of lionesses – who are the real hunters – can ruin a small farmer’s livelihood by killing even a single cow, especially one that is pregnant or producing milk. Thanks to Botswana’s excellent conservation policies, the country has one of Africa’s largest wild lion populations – estimated at 3,000. For poorer subsistence farmers, though, it is harder. Continue reading »
