Category: Painting
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Stunning Pen Drawings Created with Thousands of Tiny Dots!
Using thousands upon thousands of tiny dots, Spider Money produces gorgeous artworks that are awe-inspiring in their detail. The Bangkok-based creative wields a mighty Micron pen and draws fancy flourishes with photo-realistic depictions of eyes, noses, and lips. It’s in these facial features that Spider Money employs her “dot-drawing technique.” She individually dabs the minuscule…
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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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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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Interactive Art Gallery Allows Visitors to Become Part of an Illusion!
This unique gallery lets visitors do more than just admire great works of art — they get to play with it, too. At Art in Island, an interactive gallery that occupies a former bus station in the Philippines, visitors can step inside paintings and take pictures with the optical illusions. Each piece offers guests a…
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Banksy Arrested in Hollywood: Exclusive Video Footage
Despite years on near-misses, it appears that the infamous street artist Banksy has finally been caught. In exclusive footage released by the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Office today, Banksy and another unnamed individual are seen working on a painting on the HOLLYWOOD sign in Los Angeles, California, yesterday afternoon. Given the HOLLYWOOD sign is one of America’s most…
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Tattooed Seniors: What Will Your Ink Look Like When You’re 60?
Many people balk at the idea of getting a tattoo for fear that it’ll look bad when they grow older. While that’s a matter of personal taste, these older tattooed folks are here to show you that their tattoos are just as awesome now as they were back then. What’s your favorite? And don’t forget,…
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The 60 Best Street Art Works of 2014
Street art has come in leaps and bounds in the last few years and there seems to be no ends to the creativity and imagination of the world’s street artists. To celebrate this, here are the best 60 street art works for 2014. What’s your favorite? By Oakoak France: Street Art by Paulo Ito in…
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Terminally Ill Woman Taken by Ambulance for One Last Visit to a Museum
Viewing artwork can be a comforting, moving experience, and one you might not easily forget – even on your last days. This past Tuesday, a terminally ill woman was taken by ambulance to the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam so that she could visit the arts and history museum one more time. She’s seen taking in a self-portrait by…
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Did Vincent Van Gogh Hide ‘The Last Supper’ in One of His Most Famous Paintings?
Vincent Van Gogh, most known for “Starry Night” and losing his left ear, may have left one final secret up his sleeve. His iconic painting “Cafe Terrace at Night” depicts a group of anonymous patrons enjoying an evening in Arles, France. Yet new research suggests that the individuals lurking in the group of 12 —…
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Psychedelic Time-Lapse Shows Paint Poured Onto a Block
Watch what happens when artist Holton Rower and his team continually pour paint onto a block and let gravity do its thing! The result is like some kind of psychedelic, rainbow-colored interpretation of the rings of a tree trunk. Direction, Cinematography, and Editor – Dave Kaufman Music: Nick Lovell, “Lost Sick Tired” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gsfHqLNDkn4 And don’t forget, if…