Tag: drawing
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When You’re Dead, You Can Get Your Tattooed Skin Preserved and Framed as Art
In one of the more unusual artistic things we’ve seen, the National Association For Preservation Of Skin Art (NAPSA) is giving members of their organization the chance to preserve their tattoos when they so they can be given to loved ones as a gift. It will work like this: people who join NAPSA will get a certificate. After…
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Designers Create Nameless Paints So Children Can Learn About Colors
Remember how you learnt about colors when you were a kid? The sky is blue, the sun is yellow, the grass is green, etc, etc. But as adults, we know that those color names don’t do justice to the richness of colors and tones we see all around us. That’s why the Japanese design duo Ima Moteki…
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Parade in the Netherlands Celebrates Vincent van Gogh
The Corso Zundert is a parade of giant floats which traverses the streets of Zundert in the Netherlands covered in thousands of dahlia flowers. This year, the floats were inspired by the works of the great Vincent van Gogh, who was born in Zundert 162 years ago. “In Zundert, in the South of the Netherlands, we are…
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Tattoo Artist Does Free Tattoos Domestic Violence Survivors
Unfortunately, domestic violence continues to be a real and serious problem across the world. However tattoo artist Flavia Carvalho has taken it upon herself to reduce the life-long scars that abuse can bring, by starting a project “A Pele da Flor” (The Skin of the Flower). This project is all about giving hurt women tattoos free of…
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Artist Draws Herself On Drugs to Show How it Affects Your Brain
We’ve previously written about artists who have experimented with the effect drugs have on their work (see HERE). User whatafinethrowaway, inspired by the “Nine Drawings” series which was the result of an experiment by the US government in the 1950’s, asked her friend to draw self-portraits while on LSD. The friend took 200µg of LSD and…
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It’s a Sad World According to the Illustrations of Steve Cutts
Artist and social commentator Steve Cutts thinks the world should be different. Work shouldn’t be a grinding, soul-crushing rat race for the almighty dollar. Consumerism shouldn’t hold a vice-like grip on our lives. And social media, well, we need to throw-off the shackles we so eagerly put on ourselves. Wouldn’t life be better then? Steve Cutts…
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Banksy is Back With New Tropicana Show in Weston
WORLD-RENOWNED urban artist Banksy has just unveiled his biggest ever exhibition at Weston-super-Mare’s Tropicana – and ONLY Mercury readers will be invited to the show’s launch. . https://youtu.be/zMER_4UJVNI Tropicana building with Banksy Installations. National and international media have been speculating all week about whether the anonymous artist was eyeing the former seafront pool for a new…
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Artist Quits Her Job To Create Amazing Paper Art
Quilling, or paper filigree, is the art of using shaped strips of paper and artist Sena Runa is one of the best we’ve seen. It involves gluing, twisting, rolling and otherwise manipulating paper to create 3D shapes. Sena discovered the art a few years ago, and recently quit who job to take it up full time.…
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A Trip Inside the Mind of Conceptual Artist Dan Cretu
We may have only discovered the Instagram account of artist Dan Cretu a couple of days ago, but we are already obsessed with his work. Dan is a conceptual artist who combines a strong whit with famous artworks and popular culture. Below are some of our favorites, but be sure to check out Dan’s work…
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3D Printed CLOTHES at Home by Danit Peleg
3D printing is all the rage at the moment. It started off simply with chess pieces, then got more sophisticated with bone joints and moving toys, and then fully high tech like milk caps that tell you when milk has gone bad and a real skull, implanted into a baby’s head. “What’s next” you ask? Cars? Rockets? Televisions?…