Tag: artist
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AMAZING Pumpkin Carvings From the Guys at Villafane Studios
Update: be sure to also check out the amazing Pumpkin Arrangements at the Great Jack O’Lantern Blaze in New York HERE! With Halloween fast approaching, we thought we’d look into pumpkin carving. We didn’t have to look too far before we discovered Ray and the team at Villafane Studios. Wow. These guys know how to carve a…
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Eccentric Yet Amazing Body Art Done by a 19-year-old Japanese Girl Choo-San
Her boredom with the digitally enhanced photographs drove a 19-year-old Japanese girl to work on her artistic talent in body art. Student Choo-San from the Musashino Art University in Tokyo, Japan left an incredible impression when she painted attention-grabbing images on the human body. Choo-San discovered her body art talent after sketching eyes on the…
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NYC Artist Shows Us What Famous Celebrities Would Look Like as Normal People
Update: This Post Was Viewed Over 1 Million Times in 1 Week So We Had to Give you more! CLICK HERE to see Danny Evan’s “What Famous Celebrities Would Look Like as Normal People” Part 2! Thanks to the power of Photoshop and the skill of artist Danny Evans, we get to see what some famous celebrities would…
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Famous Paintings Recreated Using Thousands of Torn Magazine Scrap
Brazilian-born Brooklyn-based artist Vik Muniz has a number of works on display at Galerie Xippas in Paris as part of his Pictures of Magazine 2 series. The nine pieces are recreations of famous paintings by Van Gogh, Manet, Cézanne and other artists using cut and torn fragments from popular magazines. We’ve seen a number of works similar to these where multiple…
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Artist Creates Blurred Portraits that are Reminiscent of a Big Night Out
According to artist James Bonnici’s website, his latest body of work “explores the process of disclosing concealment: the in-between, a glimpse of what lies beneath the surface.” We were taken by the mystery behind each painting, with the blurred subjects of the portraits being hidden from view… like an out-of-focus photograph. Also reminded us a…
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Artist Uses Everyday Objects to Create Stunning Landscape Photographs!
Matthew Albanese creates small-scale meticulously detailed models of outdoor scenes and landscapes using everyday, simple, mundane materials and transform them into an image through the lens of his camera making them look hyper-realistic. The amount of time and effort that goes into these is incaculateable, but the end product is truly awe-inspiring! You can see many…
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Artist Uses Dirt For Her Latest “Dirty Little Secrets” Project!
American photographer and illustrator Sarah Rosado has been working on Dirty Little Secrets, a poetic and meaningful project that makes us ponder on the fragile beauty of our surroundings and the positive aspect of life. Using dirt as a medium, Sarah shapes this raw material into ephemeral illustrations that speak for themselves. With a goal…
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Kaleidoscopic Floor Installations Made of Mirrors, Crystals and Glass by Suzan Drummen
In an act of patience and precision that boggles the mind, Dutch artist Suzan Drummen creates sparkling floor installations using an array of individually placed mirrors, crystals, chromed metal, optical glass and precious stones. That’s right, the thousands of objects in each of her artworks are placed and stacked by hand and sit completely loose during the…
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Amazing Light Festival in Portugal!
The LUMINA Light Festival is an international event that transforms urban space with color and light shows, multimedia projections, giant light sculptures and installations. Based in Portugal and free for all ages, more than 20 national and international artists are set to surprise visitors “with grandiose spectacles of light and color, video mapping, 3D effects,…
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New York Children Hospital Installs A Pirate-themed CT Scanner
Hospitals are rarely a pleasant experience, and even less so for the kids. The New York-Presbyterian Morgan Stanley Children’s Hospital, however, managed to make it at least a little less stressful, by installing a pirate-themed CT scanner. When the time came to replace the old scan, the staff was primarily looking for one that would…