Tag: artist
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The Magical Beauty Of Mushrooms Captured By Jill Bliss
Artist Jill Bliss resides on a small Pacific Northwestern island within the Salish Sea. She used to work as a designer in San Francisco and New York and was very successful at it. However, she missed being with nature so she sold almost everything she owned and moved to this island for a fresh start.…
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Photographer Spends 6 Months In Siberia Capturing Photographs of Siberia’s Indigenous People
Three years ago, photographer Alexander Khimushin commenced his latest project titled ‘The World In Faces’ that would celebrate beauty and diversity of the world through the portraits of ordinary people. Since this time he has taken thousands of portraits all over the world. In the last six months, his project focussed on the indigenous people…
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Series of Photos That Are So Uncomfortable Your OCD Won’t Be Able To Handle It
If you’re like us, you like certain things to look orderly and symmetrical. Like to straighten that picture frame? Or make sure that your pens are all correctly lined up on your desk in height order? While you might not have OCD, it’s true that we all like things to be in a certain way.…
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Artists Create Striking Works Making the Most of Negative Space
Negative space is, quite simply, the space that surrounds an object in a image. Just as important as that object itself, negative space helps to define the boundaries of positive space and brings balance to a composition. Considering and improving the balance between negative space and positive space in a composition is considered by many…
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Artist Illustrates His Battle With Depression With Mysterious Dark Illustrations
Dawid Planeta is a freelance graphic designer and illustrator who lives in Cracow, Poland. As a personal project, he has created a very dark series of mysterious illustrations. His work explores the artist’s personal experience with depression, visualizing the mental journey through dark times. “Depression—it’s not easy to deal with, but when you try, you…
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Man Tells Artist To Paint His Portrait For Free Because His Son ‘Has Cancer’
As an artist, we’ve probably all had the experience where someone has asked you to create a piece of art for them ‘for free’ or ‘for the exposure’ or for ‘free concert tickets’ or whatever. An anonymous Spanish ‘artist’ recently uploaded a conversation he had with a fan who asked for a commission and it…
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Russian Embroidery Artist Creates Billowing Clouds and Rainbow-Hued Sunsets
Vera Shimunia is a Russian embroidery artist who began her landscape embroidery in 2015. Vera’s work includes richly-hued mountainscapes, sunrises, and skies are crafted on palm-sized embroidery hoops using a variety of textured threads. Although embroidery is considered an old craft, Vera has breathed new life into the art form and has developed a huge following by…
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The African Village Where Every House Is a Work of Art
Burkina Faso is by no means an area frequented by tourists, but at the base of a hill overlooking the surrounding sun-drenched West African savannah lies an extraordinary village, a circular 1.2 hectare complex of intricately embellished earthen architecture. It is the residence of the chief, the royal court and the nobility of the Kassena…
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Australia’s Answer To Banksy Continues To Offend Celebrities Including One Who Wants To Kill Him
Australia’s answer to Banksy is continuing to upset celebrities with his unflattering depictions of them – as rapper 50 Cent is the latest to take offence. The anonymous Melbourne street artist who goes by the stage name Lushsux is well-known for his work involving celebrities. His famous pieces include Kim Kardashian with the figure of a…
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Frida Kahlo’s Colorful Wardrobe Unlocked After Being Hidden for 50 Years
Frida Kahlo’s clothes are like Frida herself: colorful, powerful, filled with passion. Seeing them immediately evokes the richness of her paintings, while poignantly offering an insight into her life. When Mexican artist Frida Kahlo passed away in 1954, her husband, fellow artist Diego Rivera, anguished by her death, sealed her clothes in the bathroom of…