Category: Painting
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Beautiful Portraits Painted with Coffee by Michael Williams!
Everyone needs a good coffee to start the day. Artist Michael Williams has taken it one step further, creating a beautiful series of portraits painted with coffee on old ledger paper from the 1920s and 1930s. We think you’ll agree that he’s done a great job! You can see so much more in his gallery. And don’t…
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Secret Paintings in 19th Century Books at the University of Iowa
Colleen Theisen, who helps with outreach and instruction at the Special Collections & University Archives at the University of Iowa, recently shared an amazing gif she made that demonstrates something called fore-edge painting on the edge of a 1837 book called Autumn by Robert Mudie. Fore-edge painting, which is believed to date back as early as the 1650s, is a way of hiding a…
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Gerardo Chierchia Paints Three-Dimensional Goldfish Embedded in Layers of Resin!
Italian artist now based in Australia Gerardo Chierchia paints three-dimensional goldfish using a complex process of poured resin. The fish are painted meticulously, layer by layer, the sandwiched slices revealing slightly more about each creature, similar to the function of a 3D printer. We really love the rich depth of the pieces and the optical illusion…
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Colorful Riverbeds Drawn with Pencil by Ester Roi
California artist Ester Roi works colored pencils to create drawings of imagined riverbeds that exhibit a superb understanding of the interaction between light, color and water. Roi uses a special drawing device called the Icarus Drawing Board that allows her to effectively create warm and cool “zones” underneath a wax-based medium. According to her website “the warm zone is…
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Like a Kid in a Candy Store – Inside The Artist Studios of Dianne Gall and Jim Thalassoudis
We were lucky enough to be invited inside the artist studios of art power couple, Jim Thalassoudis and Dianne Gall in Bowden, South Australia recently. The pair originally met at the South Australian School of Art in the 1980s and have been painting together ever since. Dianne paints in the style of contemporary realism, with her works evoking the memory…
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Distorted Skies Made from Hundreds of Stacked Photographs by Matt Molloy
Living on the shore of Lake Ontario, just east of Toronto, photographer Matt Molloy has daily encounters with brilliant sunsets and cloudscapes that he’s been taking photographs of for over three years. One day he began experimenting with time-lapse sequences by taking hundreds of images as the sun set and the clouds moved through the sky. Molloy…
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New Series of Nude Body Paintings by Emma Hack Depicting Beautiful Women
Not many young artists can say their work has been seen by hundreds of millions of people all over the world. Emma Hack can. The South Australian painter is the creator of the body art featured in the video clip for Gotye and Kimbra’s worldwide hit Somebody that I Used to Know. As at the…
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Surrealism and optical illusion paintings by Oleg Shuplyak
Oleg Shuplyak is a painter whose works involve portraits of famous personalities drawn in such a way that common objects and scenery make up their distinctive faces in amalgamated form. The pictures are brilliantly, and evocatively multilayered with uncommon depth. Here are some of our favorites:
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Taking hyper-realism to the next level
We’ve showcased a number of seriously talented hyper-realistic painters in the past, but have just been introduced to one who has stopped us dead in our tracks. We cannot find words to describe the amazing talents of Italian artist Emanuele Dascanio, so we’ve chosen some of our favorite images from his most recent body of…
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Hyperrealistic Rainy Winter Windshield Drawings by Elizabeth Patterson
As the Southern Hemisphere shivers through Winter, we thought we’d showcase the fascinating works of artist Elizabeth Patterson who has challenged herself to recreate the absurdly complex formation of water droplets on rain-streaked windshields. Her ongoing series titled Rainscapes blends drawing, hyperrealism, and traditional landscape techniques resulting in images that can be seen as both real and abstract. Patterson…