Tag: artFido
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Graffiti Removal Guy Comes Back to Discover Image of Himself in the Same Spot
Street artist DS recently added a couple of paste-ups to a wall in London. It didn’t take too long before a graffiti removal guy removed the paste-ups. Shortly after that, DS was back with a paste up of the graffiti removal guy removing the graffiti. Gold! Art imitates removal of art! And don’t forget, if…
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Crocs in a Bath by Photographer Shannon Plummer
It’s often said that you shouldn’t work with kids or animals, but Shannon Plummer, photographer, seems to have mastered this and the art of photography with some of the most stunning animal photography we have ever seen. Shannon recently completed a charity calendar for The Australian Girls of Herpetology where she took photos of women…
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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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Photo Series Showing What 200 Calories Looks Like in Different Foods (PART 2)
Wow. Our original post about this topic “What 200 Calories Looks Like” (which you can see HERE) attracted some serious attention and at the time of writing was viewed over 900,000 times. So we thought we’d continue the discussion with part 2. As reported by Foodporn, some foods have significantly more Calories than others but what…
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Artist Conducts Experiment Where he Draws Himself While on Different Drugs and Alcohol
Art, drugs and alcohol have gone hand in hand for centuries. Van Gogh was an avid Absinthe drinker and was known to finish a long day by taking a seat on a terrace with glass in hand, absinthe and brandy following each other in quick succession. Toulouse-Lautrec and Degas were also fans of the aquamarine…
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Photographer Murad Osmann Continues to Follow His Girlfriend Around the World
We recently blogged about Russian photographer Murad Osmann and his “Follow Me To” photo series (read HERE) where Murad takes the viewer on an intimate journey together with his girlfriend Natalia Zakharova who leads him around the world. Instead of run-of-the-mill tourist shots, Murad snapped pictures of his girlfriend taking his hand and leading him…
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Birds Made of Flower Petals and Leaves by Red Hong Yi
Known for her numerous art projects where images are created using everyday objects, artist Red Hong Yi has begun a new series of birds made with flower petals and leaves. You can see many more of her creative birds by following her on Instagram… and while you’re there, make sure you give @artFido a follow as well! Peacock…
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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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When Art and Technology Mix – Realistic Painting Using an iPad by David Kassan!
In an age of post-abstract representational painting, Brooklyn-based artist David Jon Kassan‘s stark realism separates him from the pack. With a critical eye for anatomy, he expertly captures the subtle nuances of his subjects through the use of oil on panel, charcoal, and graphite in his life-size paintings and drawings. David recently tried his hand at…
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Colorful Macro Photography of Coral by Felix Salazar
LA-based photographer and composer Felix Salazar recently captured some wonderful macro photographs of several inhabitants in his salt water aquariums. The shocking variety of color in his macro photographs makes the coral look like digital renderings, but Salazar assures us that each is a unique photo selected from hundreds of attempts to get just the right shot as he…