Tag: artist
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Stunning Winged Insects Made of Discarded Circuit Boards
Portsmouth, UK-based artist Julie Alice Chappell creates beautiful miniature sculptures of insects using circuit boards found inside discarded electronics. “My art practice involves breaking down the pre-existing materials, reinterpreting them and offering them a new form with new purpose, creating something beautiful, whimsical and precious,” she said. It all started several years ago when she…
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Floating Garden in Japan Where Flowers Move Skyward as you Approach
Japanese art collective teamLab have created an incredible floating flower garden installation featuring over 2,300 living flowers in bloom. TeamLab adds: When a viewer gets close to this flower-filled space, the flowers close to the viewer rise upwards all at once, creating a hemispherical space with the viewer at its center. In other words, although the whole…
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Photographer Gives Advice to His Children Through Double Negative Photos
Florida-based photographer Brandon Kidwell uses his artistic skills as a powerful way to give valuable advice to his kids. In a series titled Wisdom For My Children, Life Lessons Through Photos, he creates double-exposure images that convey different teachings. It’s a personal project that took form over many years, and it reflects the real experiences he’s…
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A New Miniature Book Showing Life’s Lil Pleasures By Evan Lorenzen
When we last saw Colorado-based artist Evan Lorenzen, he had just released his miniature book “THE MINI BOOK OF MAJOR EVENTS“. His latest book continues the trend of not being your average book – it’s no larger than one inch tall and features drawings smaller than your thumbnail – and is called “Life’s Lil Pleasures”. As…
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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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Street Art That Masterfully Interacts With Nature!
Urbanism and nature do not always get along well, but when they do, the collaboration may create something really special and unique. Here are some great examples of this combination. What is your favorite? And don’t forget, if you’re looking for a piece of original art to hang on your walls, check out artFido HERE!
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Amazing Hand-Blown Glass Creatures By Scott Bisson
Scott Bisson, a passionate glass blower living in Oregon, creates wonderful hand-crafted glass-blown creatures with beautiful and subtle colors. He often chooses to portray aquatic creatures or amphibians whose natural forms match well with the flowing qualities of the molten glass that he shapes. Bisson’s career as a glass blower began in high school when…
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Gravity-Defying Photos of Dancer Captured as if Frozen in Time
While levitation photography is nothing new, Taiwanese-French-American photographer Mickael Jou’s self-portraits of himself leaping through the air are exceptionally elegant feats of movement and grace. For the past three years, the Berlin-based creative has united his two passions—photography and dance—by capturing stunning images of his own nimble motions frozen in time. Similar to photographer Jordan…
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Beautiful Photos of Children And Animals By Russian Photographer Elena Karneeva
Children’s relationships with animals and with each other are free of many of the misconceptions and unfounded fears that can infect our minds later in life. It is this innocence that Elena Karneeva, a professional child and family photographer based in Moscow, captures in her beautiful photos of children and animals. The children in each…