Tag: Art
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Urban Floral Cross-Stitch Street Installations by Raquel Rodrigo
Raquel Rodrigo is a set designer and artist who brings the macro details of cross-stitch embroidery to urban landscapes on the building facades around Madrid. She prepares her colorful installations beforehand with enlarged cross-stitch techniques using thick string wrapped on wire mesh before each is unrolled and affixed to a surface. Here are some of…
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Brutally Honest Illustrator Use Satire To Show Us How Society Really Is
The world is a bit of a mess at the moment… we can all agree on this. We have too high a dependence on technology, high taxes, bullying, political upheaval, obesity, devaluation of workers, etc, etc. Illustrator John Holocraft has taken a ‘tongue in cheek’ look at many of these issues, using satire and a…
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The Art of Makeup In Asia Will Make You Reconsider What You Know About Everything
Makeup artists have to be considered true artists in this day and age where more and more people are trying to conform to what society considers as ‘beautiful’. For better or worse, it has become a real skill to transform someone into someone completely different. After the rise of social media, the cult of beauty…
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Artists Collaborate to Create Camouflage Knitted Sweaters
Recently, photographer Joseph Ford collaborated with knitwear designer Nina Dodd to create a photo series of hand-knitted clothing that camouflages the model into their surroundings. The collaboration has produced a fun set of images which captures “storytelling with a side order of off-beat creativity”. Here are our favorites from the series. Make sure you comment…
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Photographer Captures the Vulnerable Side of Ballet Dancers Who Bare All on NYC Rooftops
Photographer Omar Z. Robles has returned to New York to capture his latest series, Bare Sky Dance. Robles continues to photograph his most popular subjects – male and female ballet dancers – but this time his focus is on their vulnerable side, as each of his models pose on the rooftops of some of New…
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Artist Has Pareidolia And Creates Characters Out Of The Faces He Sees
Artist Keith Larsen has pareidolia, and he uses it to his creative advantage, regularly spotting expressions and patterns in ordinary things—often, that others don’t see. To illuminate his creative visions, he illustrates these characters and brings them to life with silly stories. Pareidolia is a psychological phenomenon where the mind creates a “familiar pattern” where…
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Artist Creates Weird and Wonderful Hyperrealistic Sculptures
Polina Verbyts’ka was browsing the internet one day when she came across some hyperrealistic sculptures that caught her eye. Being naturally artistically talented, Polina decided to try and create her own realistic artworks. That was 8 years ago, and Polina is now one of most talented hyperrealistic sculptors in the field. Polina has set up a…
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Breathtaking Winners of The Nature Conservancy 2018 Global Photo Contest
The Nature Conservancy is an organization which was established in 1951 to to conserve the lands and waters on which all life depends. The organisation also runs the Global Photo Contest which features the powerful artistry of nature photography. For this year’s contest, a record-breaking 57,489 entries were received from 135 countries. Photographers were asked…
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Artist Uses Dirty Cars As The Canvas For His Artworks
Where one person sees a dirty car, the other sees a blank canvas. And if you live in Moscow, your car can also become the ‘target,’ doesn’t matter if you want it or not! It’s thanks to the Russian illustrator Nikita Golubev, who brings out the full artistic potential of dirty cars by turning them…
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Artist Controversially Paints Her Everyday Life As A Mom
Jyldyz Bekova is a talented artist who paints how little life moments, such as cooking, going to the bathroom or sleeping, look from the perspective of a busy mother. She has been heavily criticised for a number of images, including one where it appears she has locked herself in the toilet to have a cigarette…