Category: artist
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More Incredible Miniature Paintings by Lorraine Loots
Lorraine Loots, an expert at creating tiny art “for ants,” is back with a new series of mind-bogglingly small (and beautiful) paintings of animals, space, and her favorite books. We previously highlighted her amazing miniatures HERE, as part of her ‘miniature painting every day for a year’ project. She plans to create 100 mini paintings…
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Floor Installations Made of Candy and Other Colorful Objects
Operating under the name Pip & Pop, Australian artist Tanya Schultz uses a combination of colorful candy, glitter, sand, toys, beads, and other bright objects to create gloriously dreamy, intricately patterned floor installations. Viewers experience the thrill of a sugar rush as they feast their eyes on Schultz’s spectacularly fluorescent works of art. Sweetly girlish and…
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John Bramblitt Went Blind in 2001. In 2002, he Started Painting
In 2001 John Bramblitt changed his epilepsy medication. Unfortunately his body had a bad reaction to the new medicine and his epileptic seizures got so severe that the damage caused his vision to go from 20/400 (double the limit for legal blindness) to complete blindness. While John maintained light perception he was no longer able to see…
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This is the Final Photo Atif Saeed Captured Before This Lion Charged Him
Photographer Atif Saeed captured this intense photograph of a male lion growling at him back in 2012 in a safari park in Lahore, Pakistan. The photo was captured just moments before the angry cat rushed at the photographer. Saeed was driving through the park in January 2012 when he spotted the lion a short distance away. He…
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Street Art That Masterfully Interacts With Nature!
Urbanism and nature do not always get along well, but when they do, the collaboration may create something really special and unique. Here are some great examples of this combination. What is your favorite? And don’t forget, if you’re looking for a piece of original art to hang on your walls, check out artFido HERE!
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Amazing Hand-Blown Glass Creatures By Scott Bisson
Scott Bisson, a passionate glass blower living in Oregon, creates wonderful hand-crafted glass-blown creatures with beautiful and subtle colors. He often chooses to portray aquatic creatures or amphibians whose natural forms match well with the flowing qualities of the molten glass that he shapes. Bisson’s career as a glass blower began in high school when…
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Gravity-Defying Photos of Dancer Captured as if Frozen in Time
While levitation photography is nothing new, Taiwanese-French-American photographer Mickael Jou’s self-portraits of himself leaping through the air are exceptionally elegant feats of movement and grace. For the past three years, the Berlin-based creative has united his two passions—photography and dance—by capturing stunning images of his own nimble motions frozen in time. Similar to photographer Jordan…
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Beautiful Photos of Children And Animals By Russian Photographer Elena Karneeva
Children’s relationships with animals and with each other are free of many of the misconceptions and unfounded fears that can infect our minds later in life. It is this innocence that Elena Karneeva, a professional child and family photographer based in Moscow, captures in her beautiful photos of children and animals. The children in each…
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Look Again: This Chameleon is Actually Two Painted Women
Johannes Stötter, an incredibly talented bodypaint artist from Italy, has created a video to show us exactly how his amazing illusory body art “unfolds,” showing us the full transition from the chameleon we think we see in his art to the two painted women that actually compose the image. It took Stötter 4 hours to…
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Recycled Plastic Bottle Plant Sculptures by Veronika Richterová
Czech artist Veronika Richterová creates new life from repurposed plastic PET bottles. For the last decade the artist has used various methods of cutting, heating, and assemblage to build colorfully translucent forms of everything from crocodiles to chandelier light fixtures to plants. Her obsession with plastic bottles doesn’t stop with creating artwork, Richterová has also collected over 3,000 PET plastic objects…